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" Commentarial Acts and Hermeneutical Dramas: The Ethics of Reading al-Harīrī's 'Maqāmāt' "
Matthew L. Keegan
Rowson, Everett K.
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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804783
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TL49619
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1966544147; 10600870
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Smith, Shahriyar
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Commentarial Acts and Hermeneutical Dramas: The Ethics of Reading al-Harīrī's 'Maqāmāt'\ Matthew L. KeeganRowson, Everett K.
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New York University
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2017
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Ph.D.
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Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
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2017
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490
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Committee members: Cooperson, Michael; Katz, Marion; Kennedy, Philip; Pomerantz, Maurice
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-40710-5
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The <i>Maqāmāt</i> of al-Hariri (d. 516/1122) is a text with fifty stories, each of which depicts the eloquent and erudite performances of a roguish figure who performs parodies of Islamic discourses from sermons to <i>fatwās.</i> How, then, did the <i> Maqāmāt</i> become such a success among Muslim scholars over the first 800 years of its reception and a central text in Islamic education? This dissertation explores the dozens of commentaries that emerged in the first centuries of the <i>Maqāmāt</i>'s reception to argue that this apparent paradox is the product of modern preoccupations and assumptions about the relationship between Islam and literature. Based on the first detailed analysis of the <i>Maqāmāt</i>'s reception and its commentaries, this project examines the diverse interpretive traditions surrounding the text. The dissertation shows that many of the text's early readers understood its fictive and erudite parodies to be constitutive of the same kind of hermeneutical ethics that was found in the Islamic scholarly tradition. By situates the <i>Maqāmāt</i> in its social, intellectual, and material contexts over the course of the first century of its reception, this study demonstrates that the <i>Maqāmāt </i> and its commentary tradition imbued the interpretation of the text's recondite language with ethical significance. That is, the <i>Maqāmāt </i> and its commentaries both depicted and produced hermeneutical dramas in which the interpreter's ability to respond appropriately to ambiguous discourse marked them out as a worthy adept.
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Medieval literature; Middle Eastern literature; Islamic Studies; Ethics
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Language, literature and linguistics;Social sciences;Arabic literature;Classical arabic;Commentary;Manuscripts;World literature
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Rowson, Everett K.
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Middle Eastern and Islamic StudiesNew York University
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