1st Edition
Power, Marginality, and the Body in Medieval Islam
By Fedwa Malti-Douglas
Copyright 2001
314 Pages
by
Routledge
314 Pages
by
Routledge
314 Pages
by
Routledge
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From rulers to uninvited guests, from women to thieves, from dreams to names, from blindness to torture - in a series of ground-breaking studies, Power, Marginality, and the Body in Medieval Islam explores the multi-layered and complex textual universe of medieval Islam. The power of the ruler sits alongside the power of the trickster, as games of detection and verbal erudition are displayed for... Read more
Contents: Preface; Islamic biography; Controversy and its effects in the biographical tradition of al-Khatîb al-Baghdâdî; The interrelationship of onomastic elements: isms, dîn-names, and kunyas in the 9th-century A.H.; Pour une rhétorique onomastique: les noms des aveugles chez as-Safadî; Dreams, the blind, and the semiotics of the biographical notice; Mentalités and marginality: blindness and Mamlûk civilization; The classical Arabic detective; Texts and tortures: the reign of al-Mu`tadid and the construction of historical meaning; Classical Arabic crime narratives: thieves and thievery in Adab literature; Yûsuf ibn `Abd al-Hâdî and his autograph of the Wuqû` al-Balâ' bil-Bukhl wal-Bukhalâ; Structure and organization in a monographic Adab work: al-Tatfîl of al-Khatîb al-Baghdâdî; Maqâmât and Adab: al-Maqâma al-Madîriyya of al-Hamadhânî; Playing with the sacred: religious intertext in Adab discourse; Index.
Biography
Fedwa Malti-Douglas is College Professor and The Martha C. Kraft Professor of Humanities at Indiana University, Bloomington, where she is also Adjunct Professor of Law in the School of Law. She is the author of numerous scholarly books and the winner of the 1997 Kuwait Prize for Arts and Letters. Her recent work, THE STARR REPORT DISROBED (Columbia University Press, 2000), was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.
