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" Tribal poetics in early Arabic culture: The case of Ash'ār al-Hudhaliyyīn "
Nathaniel Ashton Miller
Qutbuddin, Tahera
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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803980
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TL48792
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1799671836; 10129555
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Kolander, Kenny
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Tribal poetics in early Arabic culture: The case of Ash'ār al-Hudhaliyyīn\ Nathaniel Ashton MillerQutbuddin, Tahera
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The University of Chicago
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2016
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Ph.D.
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Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
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2016
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502
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Committee members: Donner, Fred; Sells, Michael
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-87446-3
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Ash'ār al-Hudhaliyyīn, the anthology of the Hudhayl tribe’s poetry, which dates to around 550-700 CE, is the only complete collection of tribal Arabic poetry from the medieval period. Hudhayl lived near Mecca, and their increased poetic production in the mid-sixth century coincided with the rise of Quraysh, the Prophet Muhammad’s tribe, in Mecca. Although the poetic culture of pre-Islamic Arabia is usually taken to be uniform across the Arabian Peninsula, this study argues that Hudhayl constructed a distinctive social identity in their 4,600-line corpus of poetry. Drawing on non-Arabic sources, including inscriptional sources, this dissertation narrates the emergence of a warrior elite in Najd (central and northeastern Arabia) in the early sixth century, whose poetic culture emphasized equestrianism, hierarchy and connections with sedentary societies such as Sasanian Iran and Byzantium. This group of poets became aesthetically normative and canonical for medieval Arabic philologists.
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Middle Eastern literature; Islamic Studies; Middle Ages; Poetry; Arabic language; Cultural identity; Language culture relationship; Intertextuality; Self concept; Social identity; Poetics; Near Eastern studies; Ideology
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Language, literature and linguistics;Social sciences;Arabic;Hijazi;Hudhayl;Tribalism;Tribes
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Qutbuddin, Tahera
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Near Eastern Languages and CivilizationsThe University of Chicago
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