NMC103H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Panchatantra, Persian Literature, Qasida
15 Dec 2015
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Oral vs written literature: all islamic cultures have oral dimension; orality valued over writing, pre-islamic arab poet (sha ir) represented old tribal order, had his own transmitters (rawi, literacy levels low; improvisation highly valued. Independent as the others: novels: taha husayn (al-ayyam), naguib mafouz (nobel prize for literature). Abd al-rahman munif, cities of salt quintet, arab world booker nominee, ala" al-aswany, the yacoubian building, cited by renowed journalist & author, correspondent for the. Arab world"s greatest living novelist", and many: poetry: toronto 2011 griffin prize for excellence in poetry shortlist nominee was adonis. Persian literature (10th c. : pre-islamic (esp. Middle persian/pahlavi); zoroastrian literature; tradition of wisdom literature: new persian predominance of poetry, lyric (ghazal): wine (rudaki); love; mystico-erotic (hafiz); often sung, epic (masnavi) specific to persian literary culture, heroic (shah-nama book of kings ) http://shahnama. caret. cam. ac. uk/new/jnama/page, romantic (khamsa quintet ), ca. Juliet theme; khosrow va shirin; iskandar-nama, alexander epic: mystical (attar"s mantiq al-tair conference of the birds ; rumi"s.
