Arabic Poetry: Trajectories of Modernity and Tradition

43 cAbd al-Wahhmb al-Baymtl, Al-A‘mal, al-shi‘riyyah(The Poetic Works), 2 vols (Beirut: Al-Mu’ssasah al-Arabiyyah lil-Divmsmt, 1 ...

NOTES 66 See Jabrm, “Modern Arabic Literature and the West,” pp. 12–13. 67 T. S. Eliot, “Tradition and the Individual Talent,” i ...

93 See cAbd al-Wahhmb al-Baymtl, Ya nmblcal-shams: Al-Slrah al-shicriyyah(Sun Springs: Poetic Autobiography) (Damascus: Al-Farqa ...

NOTES 112 Stetkevych,AbnTammmm and the Poetics of the Abbmsld Age(Leiden: Brill, 1991), p. 233. 113 Adnnls, Dlwmn al-Shicr al-cA ...

as a “slave with a pierced lower lip, fat, with misshapen feet and thick hands.” Al-Mutanabblpraised him, and then wrote very vi ...

NOTES 26 Xalm.cAbd al-Xabnr’s, “Mudhakkirmt al-Malik cAjlb ibn al-Khaxlb” (Memoirs of the King cAjlb ibn Khaxlb), written in 196 ...

51 Ali Ahmad Said Adonis, “Adonis: Interview,” by Margaret Obank and Samuel Shimon, Banipal(June 1998), pp. 30–39, at p. 38. 52 ...

NOTES downplays figurative usage as an “elimination of any sense not confined within the spatial motion.” For a reading of both ...

18 My translation. Another is in Simawi, Iraqi Poetry Today, pp. 246–47. 19 In Mahmoud Darwish, Sand and Other Poems, trans., Ra ...

NOTES 43 Ibid., pp. 60–61. 44 Mu.ammad Bennls, Nahr bayna janmzatayn(A River between Two Funerals) (Casablanca: Dmr Tnbqml, 2000 ...

64 For examples, see Mounah A. Khouri and Hamid Algar, An Anthology of Modern Arabic Poetry, pp. 109–20. 65 ‘Abd a-Wahhmb al-Bay ...

NOTES 11 In Gayatri Spivak’s preface, to Of Grammatology, by Jacques Deerida (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1976), p ...

seecAbd al-Wahhmb Al-Baymtl, Abdul Wahab al-Bayati: Love, Death and Exile, trans. Bassam K. Frangieh, (Washington, DC: Georgetow ...

NOTES 41 Bishai, Badr Shaker As-Sayab, pp. 21–22 (Arabic), p. 35 (English). 42 On this point, see Jayyusi, Trends and Movements, ...

71 Al-Baymtl, “Al-Wilmdah”/“The Birth,” trans. Frangieh, Love, Death and Exile, pp. 282–83. 72 Al-Baymtl, “Al-Wilmdah fi Mudun l ...

NOTES founded the free verse movement in modern Arabic poetry. This poem was first published in al-Baymtl’s collection titled Ki ...

13 Quoted in Franz Rosenthal, “The Stranger in Medieval Islam,” Arabica, XLIV (1997), pp. 35–75, at p. 50. 14 Sa‘dlYnsuf wrote: ...

NOTES Ibn Rushd (Averroes, d. 1198) and to the jurist, poet, and prose writer, Ibn azm (d. 1064) whose book is seen as a breakt ...

55 ‘Aziz al-Sayyid Jmsim, Ta’ammulmt flal-.a,mrah wa-al-ightirmb(Reflections on Civilization and Alienation) (Beirut: Dmr al-And ...

NOTES 75 Emended from “The Byzantine Odes of Abu Firas,” in Unfortunately, It Was Paradise, p. 88. 76 Another translation runs a ...