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| Document Type: | Chapter of a book |
| Title: | Brevity : the long and the short of it in classical Arabic literacy / Geert Jan van Gelder. |
| Author: | Gelder, G.J.H. van |
| Meeting Added Entry: | Union Europeenne des arabisants et islamisants. |
| Summary: | Sketches the development of the concept of brevity, ijaz, or its synonyms, in Arabic literary theory and criticism and its relation to statements on the length of poems. |
| Author as Subject: | al-Mutanabbi, ca. 915-965Ibn al-Rumi, 836-896al-Buhturi, al-Walid ibn 'Ubayd, ca. 821-897 or 8al-'Askari, Abu Hilal al-Hasan ibn 'Abd Allah, d. after 1005Ibn Qutayba, 828-889Ibn Rashiq al-Qayrawani, 1000- 1063 or 1071al-Qartajanni, Hazim, 1211-85Ibn al-Muqaffa', early 8th cent.al-Jahiz, ca.776 or 7-868 or 9al-Farazdaq, ca. 640-728Ibn Sallam al-Jumahi, 756-846 or 847Abu 'Amr ibn al-'Ala', 684 or 687-771 or 774Jarir ibn 'Atiyya, ca. 653-729al-Khalil ibn Ahmad, ca. 718-791Ibn al-Muthanna, Abu 'Ubayda Ma'mar, 728-824 or 5Ibn al-Mu'tazz, 861-908Ibn Ja'far, Qudama, d. 948al-Rummani, 'Ali ibn 'Isa, 889-994Ibn al-Nadim, d. bet. 990-1 and 998al-Baqillani, d. 1013al-Jurjani, 'Abd al-Qahir, d. 1078 or 1081al-Khatib al-Qazwini, 1268-1338Ibn Abi al-Isba', ca.1189-1256Ibn al-Athir, Diya al-Din, 1163-1239Ibn al-Zamlakani, d. 1253Sibawayhi, 8th cent. |
| Descriptors: | Criticism, Ancient Theory, Literary Poetics, Ancient Poetry, Ancient Nasib Panegyric Poetry, Ancient -- Short poem Poetry, Ancient -- Long poem Conciseness Mu'allaqat Criticism, Ancient -- Prolixity Poetics -- Improvising Satire Poetry, Ancient -- Flytings Ellipsis Enjambment Badi' Qur'an -- Biography Translated terms Poetry, Ancient -- Artifice |
| Source: | Proceedings of the ninth congress of the Union Europeenne des Arabisants et Islamisants. p. 78-88 |
| Source Type: | Book |
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