MENAS 398 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Primus Inter Pares, Naqa, Akbar S. Ahmed

• School: U of M
• Department: Middle Eastern And North African Studies
• Course: MENAS 398
• Professor: Carol Bardenstein

Document Summary

Inaccurate cultural representations that are the foundations of western thought about the. Orientalism: refer to the west(cid:495)s patronizing perceptions and depictions of middle eastern, Thesis: there exists a (cid:498)subtle and persistent eurocentric prejudice against arab-islamic peoples and their culture(cid:499) Western scholars have appropriated the exploration and interpretation of the orient(cid:495)s. Continue to serve as implicit justifications for the colonial and imperialist ambitions of languages, history, and culture for themselves. Western study of islamic civilization for european self-affirmation. Desert tracings: six classic arabian odes, michael a. Qasida: ode; ancient arabic word and form of writing poem that was passed to other cultures after the arab muslim expansion. Most famous collection: mu(cid:495)allaqat; offer a sign of cultural understanding. After islam was introduced; basra, kufa, baghdad, and aleppo scholars collected the oral poetic tradition of arabia and integrated it into the written culture. Poetry was largely an oral tradition; each was a performance with spontaneity.