NOTES26 Xalm.cAbd al-Xabnr’s, “Mudhakkirmt al-Malik cAjlb ibn al-Khaxlb” (Memoirs of
the King cAjlb ibn Khaxlb), written in 1961. It is included in the Dawmwln, in
Al-Acmml al-kmmilah(1993), pp. 419–25. On the use of masks, see Xalm.cAbd
al-Xabnr, >aymtlflal-shicr, p. 143.
27 Xalm.cAbd al-Xabnr, al-Dawmwln al-Shicriyyah,” pp. 421–22.
28 Xalm.cAbd al-Xabnr, >aymtlflal-shicr, p. 143.
29 Bloom, A Map of Misreading, p. 36.
30 cAbd al-Wahhmb al-Baymtl, Ya nmblcal-shams: Al-Slrah al-shicriyyah(Sun Springs:
Poetic Autobiography) (Damascus: Al-Farqad, 1999), p. 60.
31 Ibid.
32 cAbd al-Wahhmb al-Baymtl, Dlwmn, 2 vols (Beirut: Dmr Al-cAwdah, 4th print,
1990), vol. 1, p. 268. See also Muhsin Jmssim al-Mnsawl, “cAbd al-Wahhmb
al-Baymtl’s Poetics of Exile,” Journal of Arabic Literature, 32, 2 (2001),
pp. 212–38, at pp. 224–25.
33 Al-Baymtl, Dlwmn, vol. 1, p. 268.
34 On al-Macarrl, see Sperl, Mannerism in Arabic Poetry, p. 100.
35 AbnZakariymh Ya.ymibn cAllal-Khatlb al-Tibrlzlsays in his introduction, that
al-Macarrlcalls this dlwmn“Saqt al-zand,” for “the spark is the first to come out
of fire from flint.” See eds Muxyafmal-Saqqmand Muqaddimat al-Tibrlzlli-shar.
Saqyal-zand, Shurn.Siqyal-Zand, consisting of the explications of al-Tibrlzl,
al-Batalyawsl, and al-Khwmrazml(Cairo: Al-Hay’ah al-cMmmah lil-Kitmb,
1985; reprint of the 1945 Dmr Al-Kutub edition), pp. 3–14, at p. 3. Abnal->asan
cAllal-Bmkharzl, the poet of Nlsmbur (d. 467 H.), also calls it “Saqyal-zand” in
his Dumyat al-Qaxr. See Tacrlf al-qudamm’ bi Ablal-cAlm’, eds Muxyafmal-Saqqm
and Muqaddimat al-Tibrlzlli-shar.Saqyal-zand (Cairo: Al-Hay’ah al-cMmmah
lil-Kitmb, 1985; reprint of the 1944 Dmr Al-Kutub edition), p. 9.
36 Al-Baymtl, Dlwmn, vol. 2, p. 29.
37 See “Muqaddimat al-Tibrlzl,” in al-Macarrl, Shurn.Siqyal-zand, p. 10.
38 Sperl, Mannerism in Arabic Poetry, p. 100.
39 Ibid., p. 111.
40 In cAbd al-Wahhmb al-Baymtl, Nuxnxsharqiyyah(Oriental Texts) (Damascus:
Al-Madm, 1999), pp. 7–12.
41 See Sperl, Mannerism in Arabic Poetry, p. 129.
42 Al-Baymtl, Nuxnxsharqiyyah, p. 7.
43 Bloom, A Map of Misreading, p. 19.
44 Sperl, Mannerism in Arabic Poetry, p. 164.
45 cAbd al-Wahhmb al-Baymtl, Abdul Wahab Al-Bayati: Love, Death, and Exile, trans.
Bassam K. Frangieh (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1990),
p. 207.
46 Ali Ahmed Said Adonis, Introduction to Arab Poetics, trans., Catherine Cobham
(Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1990), p. 67.
47 Ibid., p. 64.
48 Ali Ahmed Said Adonis, “Poetry and Apoetic Culture,” trans., Esther Allen
from the French, in The Pages of Day and Night, trans., Samuel Hazo (Evanston,
IL: Northwestern University Press, 1994), p. 107.
49 Adonis, Introduction to Arab Poetics, p. 63. See also John M. Asfour, When the
Words Burn: An Anthology of Modern Arabic Poetry, 1945–1987(Dunvegan, ON:
Cormorant, 1988), p. 51.
50 Adnnls [cAllAhmad Sacld], Al-Masrah wa- al-marmym, 1965–67(Beirut: Dmr
Al-Mdmb, n.d.), p. 188.