The Literary Qur'an

Shakry, Hoda El

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“…69 Encyclopédie arabe holds an important place in the conceptual realignment of adab, which culminated in its twentieth-century disciplinization as literature across much of the Arabic-speaking world. 70 Released in 1952, the second volume of Āryānā dedicates a five-page entry to adab. 71 The entry draws on a number of different sources such as Muhammad Farid Wajdi's Arabic-language encyclopedic work Kanz al-ʿulūm wa-l-lughah (1905), Jaʿfar Ibn Muhammad Baytī's Mawāsim al-adab wa-āthār al-ʿAjam wa-l-ʿArab (1908), Jalāl Homāʾi's Tārikh-e adabiyāt-e Irān (1930), and an uncited American encyclopedia.…”

Section: Adab(iya ̄T) and A ̄Rya ̄Namentioning

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Disciplining Persian Literature in Twentieth-Century Afghanistan

Fani

2022

Iran. stud.

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How was Persian literature disciplinized in the twentieth century? This article addresses this question by focusing on twentieth-century Afghanistan and outlining the sociohistorical processes that helped to transform scholarly and literary production into a social enterprise. A major outcome of these underexamined processes was the making of Dāʾerat ol-maʿāref-e Āryānā (1949–79) in Kabul, the first modern encyclopedia produced in Persian. The article explains the multilayered significance of Āryānā's literary taxonomies, reading practices, and historiographical models that reified Persian literature as an object of academic study and national veneration in Afghanistan. A close reading of Āryānā's account of Persian literary history illustrates its complex relationship with both Iranian and Afghan nationalisms of the 1940s and 1950s and its contributors’ adherence to a modern methodology. The present study places Āryānā squarely within a transregional ecosystem that brought about the institutionalization of literature in Persian-speaking lands.

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Section: Adab(iya ̄T) and A ̄Rya ̄Namentioning

confidence: 99%

Disciplining Persian Literature in Twentieth-Century Afghanistan

Fani

2022

Iran. stud.

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Finding the Qur’an in Imitation: Critical Mimesis from Musaylima to Finnegans Wake

Sherman

2024

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Certain formulations of Islamic theology place considerable weight on the doctrine of iʿjāz al-Qur’ān: the miraculous impossibility of imitating the Qur’an. The prevalence of iʿjāz al-Qur’ān doctrines, however, has not prevented many Muslims and non-Muslims from interpreting iʿjāz al-Qur’ān less as a concluded statement of mimetic impossibility and more as a dare to engage the Qur’an in ways that elude conventional academic habits of classifying the Qur’anic sciences. In short, there are dozens of Qur’anic imitations throughout Islamic history, and this article argues that they are not mere provocations but variously represent efforts to participate in the revelation of God, to embody the Qur’an while annihilating the self, and to re-open the messianic moment of God’s direct, linguistic communication with humankind. As a conclusion, this article follows the lead of examples of Qur’anic imitation to develop a literary hermeneutic of the Qur’an in which we can read the Qur’an into various literary texts and linguistic philosophies.

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The Literary Qur'an

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Disciplining Persian Literature in Twentieth-Century Afghanistan

Disciplining Persian Literature in Twentieth-Century Afghanistan

Finding the Qur’an in Imitation: Critical Mimesis from Musaylima to Finnegans Wake

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