Adam Talib
Biographic Data
| ID | 1440736 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam Talib |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam |
| FAMILY NAME | Talib |
| SIGNATURE | TALIB A |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University in Cairo |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5440-6629 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Unlearning the Aesthetics of Malicious Joy
Bodies that are gendered and sexualized through the male gaze appear frequently in the study of classical Arabic poetry, but learned reading practices predetermine how these descriptions are interpreted. These reading practices, which students learn to this day, are connected to a reception tradition that emerged to suit the logics and investments of premodern Arabic anthologies. A critical intervention, this article begins by comparing the prese…
Poetry and History
Poetry and History: The Value of Poetry in Reconstructing Arab History. Edited by Ramzi Baalbaki, Saleh Said Agha, and Tarif Khalidi. Beirut: American University of Beirut Press, 2011. Pp. xii + 459. $40
Anthologist's Art
The Anthologist's Art: Abū Manṣūr al-Thaʿālibī and His Yatīmat al-dahr. By Bilal Orfali. Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures, vol. 37. Leiden: Brill, 2016. Pp. xx + 271. $135, €104
How Do You Say “Epigram” in Arabic?
The qaṣīdah and the qiṭʿah are well known to scholars of classical Arabic literature, but the maqṭūʿ, a form of poetry that emerged in the thirteenth century and soon became ubiquitous, is as obscure today as it was once popular. These poems circulated across the Arabo-Islamic world for some six centuries in speech, letters, inscriptions, and, above all, anthologies. Drawing on more than a hundred unpublished and published works, How Do You Say “…
What Words Want
Over two sunny days in Paris, participants at the conference “Les mots du désir” (“Words of Desire”) shared thoughts, hypotheses, prejudices, assumptions, and conclusions about how premodern, modern, and contemporary Arab societies have discussed eroticism in literature, song, film, dance, quasi-scientific discourse, and everyday speech. European and North American academic interest in the sex lives of Arabs living and dead, as well as in the sex…
Toral-Niehoff Isabel, Al-Ḥīra. Eine arabische Kulturmetropole im spätantiken Kontext, Leiden-Boston, Brill, 2014, xviii + 251 p
It is only in recent decades that the word “Arab” has become synonymous with the word “Muslim” in popular discourse. Indeed when Arabs first started immigrating to the United States in large numbers in the early 20th century, being Christian – in addition to being wealthy relative to other immigrants – allowed them to lobby successfully to be classed as “White” in the census. Now, however, as Islamophobia in countries like France and the United S…
The Many Lives of Arabic Verse
Ibn Nubātah’s printed Dīwān is an unreliable source that has led scholars to draw erroneous conclusions, among them the suggestion that we can perceive a difference in Ibn Nubātah’s treatment of his wife’s death and that of his concubine ( jāriyah ). In fact, the poems on which these conclusions are based were written for the same woman. Equally problematic for scholarship is the existence of poems that occur in multiple versions. This article tr…
Pseudo-Ṯaʿālibī’s Book of Youths
This article presents a critical edition and study of a 17 th /18 th -century poetry collection that had previously been mistaken for al-Ṯaʿālibī’s lost Kitāb al-Ġilmān . It provides a codicological analysis of Berlin MS Wetzstein II 1786 in which the poetry collection is contained and also explains and corrects long-held misconceptions regarding al-Ṯaʿālibī’s connection with the text. Finally, the article situates this poetry collection in the c…
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Pseudo-Ṯaʿālibī’s Book of Youths
This article presents a critical edition and study of a 17 th /18 th -century poetry collection that had previously been mistaken for al-Ṯaʿālibī’s lost Kitāb al-Ġilmān . It provides a codicological analysis of Berlin MS Wetzstein II 1786 in which the poetry collection is contained and also explains and corrects long-held misconceptions regarding al-Ṯaʿālibī’s connection with the text. Finally, the article situates this poetry collection in the c…
The Many Lives of Arabic Verse
Ibn Nubātah’s printed Dīwān is an unreliable source that has led scholars to draw erroneous conclusions, among them the suggestion that we can perceive a difference in Ibn Nubātah’s treatment of his wife’s death and that of his concubine ( jāriyah ). In fact, the poems on which these conclusions are based were written for the same woman. Equally problematic for scholarship is the existence of poems that occur in multiple versions. This article tr…
Toral-Niehoff Isabel, Al-Ḥīra. Eine arabische Kulturmetropole im spätantiken Kontext, Leiden-Boston, Brill, 2014, xviii + 251 p
It is only in recent decades that the word “Arab” has become synonymous with the word “Muslim” in popular discourse. Indeed when Arabs first started immigrating to the United States in large numbers in the early 20th century, being Christian – in addition to being wealthy relative to other immigrants – allowed them to lobby successfully to be classed as “White” in the census. Now, however, as Islamophobia in countries like France and the United S…
What Words Want
Over two sunny days in Paris, participants at the conference “Les mots du désir” (“Words of Desire”) shared thoughts, hypotheses, prejudices, assumptions, and conclusions about how premodern, modern, and contemporary Arab societies have discussed eroticism in literature, song, film, dance, quasi-scientific discourse, and everyday speech. European and North American academic interest in the sex lives of Arabs living and dead, as well as in the sex…
How Do You Say “Epigram” in Arabic?
The qaṣīdah and the qiṭʿah are well known to scholars of classical Arabic literature, but the maqṭūʿ, a form of poetry that emerged in the thirteenth century and soon became ubiquitous, is as obscure today as it was once popular. These poems circulated across the Arabo-Islamic world for some six centuries in speech, letters, inscriptions, and, above all, anthologies. Drawing on more than a hundred unpublished and published works, How Do You Say “…
Poetry and History
Poetry and History: The Value of Poetry in Reconstructing Arab History. Edited by Ramzi Baalbaki, Saleh Said Agha, and Tarif Khalidi. Beirut: American University of Beirut Press, 2011. Pp. xii + 459. $40
Anthologist's Art
The Anthologist's Art: Abū Manṣūr al-Thaʿālibī and His Yatīmat al-dahr. By Bilal Orfali. Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures, vol. 37. Leiden: Brill, 2016. Pp. xx + 271. $135, €104
Unlearning the Aesthetics of Malicious Joy
Bodies that are gendered and sexualized through the male gaze appear frequently in the study of classical Arabic poetry, but learned reading practices predetermine how these descriptions are interpreted. These reading practices, which students learn to this day, are connected to a reception tradition that emerged to suit the logics and investments of premodern Arabic anthologies. A critical intervention, this article begins by comparing the prese…
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