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The Epistle of Forgiveness : Volume Two: Hypocrites, Heretics, and Other Sinners / Volume two, Hypocrites, heretics, and other sinners / Hypocrites, heretics, and other sinners / Volume two,
One of the most unusual books in classical Arabic literature, The Epistle of Forgiveness is the lengthy reply by the prolific Syrian poet and prose writer, Abu l-'Ala' al-Ma'arri (d. 449 H/1057 AD), to a letter by an obscure grammarian, Ibn al-Qarih. With biting irony, The Epistle of...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Arabic |
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New York :
New York University Press,
2014.
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| Edición: | Bilingual English and Arabic ed. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction; Notes to the Introduction; On Hypocrisy; Hypocrisy in humans and animals; On Ibn al-Qārih'̣s excessive praise of Abū l-ʻAlāʼ; The Sheikh's Return to Aleppo; Ibn al-Qārih'̣s arrival in Aleppo; The stolen letter; Proverbs; The plight of men of letters; Heretics, Apostates, and Impious Poets; Al-Mutanabbī and the diminutive; Al-Mutanabbī, the would-be prophet?; Other poets: Diʻbil and Abū Nuwās; Heretics in Islam: Quraysh.
- Stories about al-MutanabbīOn collaborative authorship; Al-Mutanabbī on Time; More heretics and apostates; Sạ̄lih ̣ibn ʻAbd al-Quddūs; The Fuller, the Box-Maker, and others; Al-Walīd ibn Yazīd; Abū ʻĪsā, the son of al-Rashīd; Al-Jannābī; The leader of the Zanj; Al-Hạllāj; Ibn Abī ʻAwn; Various forms of belief; Shi'ite beliefs; Ibn al-Rāwandī's books; Ibn al-Rūmī and his superstition; Abū Tammām; Al-Māzyār and Bābak; Abū Muslim; The vanity of worldly things; Claims of extremist Shi'ites; Old Age, Grave Sins, Pilgrimages, and Sincere Repentence; Old age; Servants, slaves or freemen.
- On drinking wine and other sinsRepentance; The author's acquaintance with Ibn al-Qārih;̣ Pilgrimages; The Sheikh's thoughts in Antioch and Malatya; Ibn al-Qārih'̣s praise of al-Maʻarrī; Pleasure and wine; The Stolen Dinars and the Number Eighty; Ibn al-Qārih'̣s eighty stolen dinars; The number eighty; The Sheikh's naughty niece; Finis; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Concordance with Risālat al-Ghufrān, 9th edition, edited by Bintal-Shātịʼ; Index; About the NYU Abu Dhabi InstituteAbout the Typefaces; About the Editor-Translators.