Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych
Biographic Data
| ID | 1442555 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych |
| GIVEN NAMES | Suzanne Pinckney |
| FAMILY NAME | Stetkevych |
| SIGNATURE | STETKEVYCH S P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgetown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7137-2790 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Irony, Archeology, and the Rule of Rhyme
Two contrasting approaches to the genesis of the Luzūmiyya rhymed in Ṭasmu serve as entry points into Abū l-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī's (d. 449/1058) double-rhymed diwan, Luzūm mā lā yalzam. The first takes the seventh/thirteenth-century litterateur Ibn al-Qifṭī's account of the Umayyad caliph al-Walīd's Mosque of Damascus excavations, which was read before al-Maʿarrī, as the inspiration for the poem. This reading elicits the metaphorical connection, thro…
Labīd, ʿAbīd, and Lubad
The blind Syrian poet, man of letters and scholar, Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī (363 H/973 CE -449 H/1057 CE ) is the author of two celebrated diwans. The second of these, his controversial double-rhymed and alphabetized, Luzūm Mā Lā Yalzam (Requiring What is Not Obligatory), known simply as Al-Luzūmiyyāt (The Compulsories), features his uninhibited, often highly ironic and usually pessimistic, religious, and ‘philosophical’ ideas along with mordant c…
The Mute Immortals Speak
A body of Bedouin oral poetry which was collected in the second or third Islamic century, the pre-Islamic qasidah, or ode, stands with the Qur'an as a twin foundation of Arabo-Islamic literary culture. Throughout the rich fifteen-hundred-year history of classical Arabic literature, the qasidah served as profane anti-text to the sacred text of the Qur'an. While recognizing the esteem in which Arabs have traditionally held this poetry of the pagan …
Al-Sharīf al-Raḍī and Nahj al-balāghah
This study explores the relationship between the extraordinary poetic achievement of Sharīf al-Raḍī (d. 406/1016) in his highly lyrical and influential Dīwān , on the one hand, and the literary-religious accomplishment of his unrivalled compilation of the sermons, epistles, and sayings of ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Nahj al-balāghah , on the other. It examines the interplay among the contemporary Mutanabbī-dominated literary scene, the Imāmī Shīʿite domi…
Solomon and Mythic Kingship in the Arab-Islamic Tradition
This article contrasts techniques from non-narrative, poetic and Qurʾānic texts with the narratives of Qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʾ (the Stories of the Prophets) in order to interpret passages on Sulaymān/Solomon in pre- and early Arabic-Islamic texts. Beginning with the renowned non-narrative Sulaymān passage in the pre-Islamic poet al-Nābighah al-Dhubyānī’s ode of apology to the Lakhmid king al-Nuʿmān ibn al-Mundhir and several Qurʾānic passages concerning…
Abbasid Panegyric
This study argues that the third AH/ninth CE century panegyrists (praise poets) of the Abbasid caliphal court at Baghdad (and briefly at Samarra) were responsible for constructing the image of a Golden Age of Arab-Islamic dominion that was subsequently adopted by the poets and thinkers of the Nahḍa or ‘Arab Awakening’ of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Challenged to create a poetry that would serve as the linguistic correlative of the ast…
The Snake in the Tree in Abu al-ʿAlaʾ al-Maʿarri’s Epistle of Forgiveness
This study first proposes to interpret the opening passages of Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī’s (363-449/973-1058) Risālat al-Ghufrān ( Epistle of Forgiveness ) in terms of the mythic, lexic and ludic elements that make up the substance of what is essentially a non-narrative discourse. The study argues that al-Maʿarrī uses his parodic “heavenly garden” as a “ludic space” in which his self-righteous protagonist and addressee, Ibn al-Qāriḥ, as well as his…
The Mantle Odes
Also author of The Poetics of Islamic Legitimacy (2002) and The Mute Immortals Speak (1993), Stetkevych (Indiana Univ.) provides an original translation and careful analysis of three landmark poems in Arabic Islamic literature: Ka'b ibn Zuhayr's "Su'ad Has Departed" (presented to the prophet in his life), Al-Busiri's "Mantle Ode" (13th century), and Ahmad Shawqi's "The Way of the Mantle" (early 20th century). The author argues that these are esse…
Al-Sharīf al-Radī and the Poetics of 'Alid Legitimacy Elegy for al-Husayn ibn 'Alī on 'Āshūrā', 391 A.H
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
From Sīrah to Qasīdah
This study of the celebrated 7/13th century madīh/nabawī (praise poem to the Prophet Muhammad), al-Būsīrī's Qasīdat al-Burdah (Mantle Ode), takes as its premise the supplicatory structure of the ode expounded in the author's earlier study of the poem, "From Text to Talisman" (2006). It argues that the central portions of the Burdah, Parts IV to VIII, which are derived from prose sources for the Sīrah (biography) of the Prophet, have been poetical…
Poetic Genius and Poetic Jinni
Long appreciated for its combination of lyric charm and mordant wit, Ibn Shuhayd al-Andalusi's (992–1035) Risalat al-tawabiʿ wa-l-zawabiʿ (Epistle of Attendant Jinn and Whirling Demons), as I have argued recently, also offers a sophisticated treatise on poetic influence and inspiration. Composed around 1013–17, the epistle consists of the young poet's highly ironic and parodic defense against accusations of plagiarism leveled by one Abu Bakr ibn …
From Text to Talisman
According to popular and literary tradition, when the Mamlūk period poet al-Būsīrī (d. 694-6/1294-7) was stricken with semi-paralysis that confounded his physicians, he turned in despair to compose a poem of praise to the Prophet Muhammad (madīh nabawī). He then saw the Prophet in a dream and recited the poem to him, upon which the Prophet bestowed his mantle (burdah) upon him, and the poet awoke miraculously cured. The present study argues that …
The Poetics of Islamic Legitimacy
Opens the beauty and power of Arabic poetic masterpieces to Western readers.
The Poetics of Islamic Legitimacy
Transgression and Redemption: Cuckolding the King - Al-Nabighah al-Dhubyani and the Pre-Islamic Royal Ode 2. Transmission and Submission: Praising the Prophet - Kaeb ibn Zuhayr and the Islamic Ode 3. Celebration and Restoration: Praising the Caliph - Al-Akhal and the Umayyad Victory Ode 4. Supplication and Negotiation: The Client Outraged - Al-Akhal and the Supplicatory Ode 5. Political Dominion as Sexual Domination - Abu al-Eatihiyah, Abu Tammim…
Umayyad Panegyric and the Poetics of Islamic Hegemony
The Poetics of Postcolonialism
Reorientations
Employing contemporary literary theory, eight members of the Chicago school of Arabic and Persian literature analyze a broad spectrum of poetry, ranging from the pre-Islamic ode of the sixth century to seventeenth-century Persian Safavid Moghul verse
The Mute Immortal Speak
Reorientations/Arabic and Persian Poetry
Quite simply: these are seminal essays. . . . Distinguished scholarship, erudite, and full of innovative ways of interpreting Arabic and Persian poetry. -Omar Pound [This book] reads Arabic and Persian poetry in a refreshingly new and significant way. . . . raises our understanding . . . to a new level. -James T. Monroe Innovative methodologies reorient critical readings of classical Middle Eastern literature
Sarah and the Hyena
Abū Tammām and the Poetics of the ‘Abbāsid Age
Foremost among the poetic accomplishments of the "Abbasid age was the sudden flowering of a highly rhetorical and strikingly modern style of poetry , termed "badī'." It found its most radical and controversial exponent in the celebrated panegyrist to the courts of al-Ma'mūn and al-Mu'tasim, Abū Tammām Habīb ibn Aws Al- Tā'ī. The present study offers a reevaluation of the Arabic literary dispute over Abū Tammām and badī'. It then proposes a redefi…
The Arabic Novel
Beyond the Line
The Rithā' of Ta'abbata Sharran a Study of Blood-Vengeance in Early Arabic Poetry
Journal Article THE RITHĀ' OF TA'ABBATA SHARRAN A STUDY OF BLOOD-VENGEANCE IN EARLY ARABIC POETRY Get access SUZANNE PINCKNEY STETKEVYCH SUZANNE PINCKNEY STETKEVYCH INDIANA UNIVERSITY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Semitic Studies, Volume XXXI, Issue 1, SPRING 1986, Pages 27–45, https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/XXXI.1.27 Published: 01 March 1986
Ritual and Sacrificial Elements in the Poetry of Blood-Vengeance
Reorientations/Arabic and Persian Poetry
Quite simply: these are seminal essays. . . . Distinguished scholarship, erudite, and full of innovative ways of interpreting Arabic and Persian poetry. -Omar Pound [This book] reads Arabic and Persian poetry in a refreshingly new and significant way. . . . raises our understanding . . . to a new level. -James T. Monroe Innovative methodologies reorient critical readings of classical Middle Eastern literature
Sarah and the Hyena
Solomon and Mythic Kingship in the Arab-Islamic Tradition
This article contrasts techniques from non-narrative, poetic and Qurʾānic texts with the narratives of Qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʾ (the Stories of the Prophets) in order to interpret passages on Sulaymān/Solomon in pre- and early Arabic-Islamic texts. Beginning with the renowned non-narrative Sulaymān passage in the pre-Islamic poet al-Nābighah al-Dhubyānī’s ode of apology to the Lakhmid king al-Nuʿmān ibn al-Mundhir and several Qurʾānic passages concerning…
From Text to Talisman
According to popular and literary tradition, when the Mamlūk period poet al-Būsīrī (d. 694-6/1294-7) was stricken with semi-paralysis that confounded his physicians, he turned in despair to compose a poem of praise to the Prophet Muhammad (madīh nabawī). He then saw the Prophet in a dream and recited the poem to him, upon which the Prophet bestowed his mantle (burdah) upon him, and the poet awoke miraculously cured. The present study argues that …
Al-Sharīf al-Raḍī and Nahj al-balāghah
This study explores the relationship between the extraordinary poetic achievement of Sharīf al-Raḍī (d. 406/1016) in his highly lyrical and influential Dīwān , on the one hand, and the literary-religious accomplishment of his unrivalled compilation of the sermons, epistles, and sayings of ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Nahj al-balāghah , on the other. It examines the interplay among the contemporary Mutanabbī-dominated literary scene, the Imāmī Shīʿite domi…
Poetic Genius and Poetic Jinni
Long appreciated for its combination of lyric charm and mordant wit, Ibn Shuhayd al-Andalusi's (992–1035) Risalat al-tawabiʿ wa-l-zawabiʿ (Epistle of Attendant Jinn and Whirling Demons), as I have argued recently, also offers a sophisticated treatise on poetic influence and inspiration. Composed around 1013–17, the epistle consists of the young poet's highly ironic and parodic defense against accusations of plagiarism leveled by one Abu Bakr ibn …
Umayyad Panegyric and the Poetics of Islamic Hegemony
Ritual and Sacrificial Elements in the Poetry of Blood-Vengeance
The Ṣuʿlūk and His Poem
Structuralist Interpretations of Pre-Islamic Poetry
Toward a Redefinition of "Badī" Poetry
The 'Abbasid Poet Interprets History
Toward a Redefinition of "Badī" Poetry
Structuralist Interpretations of Pre-Islamic Poetry
The Ṣuʿlūk and His Poem
The Rithā' of Ta'abbata Sharran a Study of Blood-Vengeance in Early Arabic Poetry
Journal Article THE RITHĀ' OF TA'ABBATA SHARRAN A STUDY OF BLOOD-VENGEANCE IN EARLY ARABIC POETRY Get access SUZANNE PINCKNEY STETKEVYCH SUZANNE PINCKNEY STETKEVYCH INDIANA UNIVERSITY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Semitic Studies, Volume XXXI, Issue 1, SPRING 1986, Pages 27–45, https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/XXXI.1.27 Published: 01 March 1986
Ritual and Sacrificial Elements in the Poetry of Blood-Vengeance
Archetype and Attribution in Early Arabic Poetry
The premier position of the Lāmiyyat al-'Arab among the poetry of al-shu'arā' al-Ta'alīk (the brigand-poets) of the Jāhiliyya is undeniable. Among scholars and philologists, both Arab and Orientalist, it has remained over the centuries the object of the most minute philological commentaries. Its Arab commentators number more than 20, among them the foremost names in classical Arabic literary scholarship: al-Mubarrad (d. 285/898), the doyen of the…
The Arabic Novel
Beyond the Line
Abū Tammām and the Poetics of the ‘Abbāsid Age
Foremost among the poetic accomplishments of the "Abbasid age was the sudden flowering of a highly rhetorical and strikingly modern style of poetry , termed "badī'." It found its most radical and controversial exponent in the celebrated panegyrist to the courts of al-Ma'mūn and al-Mu'tasim, Abū Tammām Habīb ibn Aws Al- Tā'ī. The present study offers a reevaluation of the Arabic literary dispute over Abū Tammām and badī'. It then proposes a redefi…
The Mute Immortal Speak
Reorientations/Arabic and Persian Poetry
Quite simply: these are seminal essays. . . . Distinguished scholarship, erudite, and full of innovative ways of interpreting Arabic and Persian poetry. -Omar Pound [This book] reads Arabic and Persian poetry in a refreshingly new and significant way. . . . raises our understanding . . . to a new level. -James T. Monroe Innovative methodologies reorient critical readings of classical Middle Eastern literature
Sarah and the Hyena
Umayyad Panegyric and the Poetics of Islamic Hegemony
The Poetics of Postcolonialism
Reorientations
Employing contemporary literary theory, eight members of the Chicago school of Arabic and Persian literature analyze a broad spectrum of poetry, ranging from the pre-Islamic ode of the sixth century to seventeenth-century Persian Safavid Moghul verse
The Poetics of Islamic Legitimacy
Opens the beauty and power of Arabic poetic masterpieces to Western readers.
The Poetics of Islamic Legitimacy
Transgression and Redemption: Cuckolding the King - Al-Nabighah al-Dhubyani and the Pre-Islamic Royal Ode 2. Transmission and Submission: Praising the Prophet - Kaeb ibn Zuhayr and the Islamic Ode 3. Celebration and Restoration: Praising the Caliph - Al-Akhal and the Umayyad Victory Ode 4. Supplication and Negotiation: The Client Outraged - Al-Akhal and the Supplicatory Ode 5. Political Dominion as Sexual Domination - Abu al-Eatihiyah, Abu Tammim…
From Text to Talisman
According to popular and literary tradition, when the Mamlūk period poet al-Būsīrī (d. 694-6/1294-7) was stricken with semi-paralysis that confounded his physicians, he turned in despair to compose a poem of praise to the Prophet Muhammad (madīh nabawī). He then saw the Prophet in a dream and recited the poem to him, upon which the Prophet bestowed his mantle (burdah) upon him, and the poet awoke miraculously cured. The present study argues that …
From Sīrah to Qasīdah
This study of the celebrated 7/13th century madīh/nabawī (praise poem to the Prophet Muhammad), al-Būsīrī's Qasīdat al-Burdah (Mantle Ode), takes as its premise the supplicatory structure of the ode expounded in the author's earlier study of the poem, "From Text to Talisman" (2006). It argues that the central portions of the Burdah, Parts IV to VIII, which are derived from prose sources for the Sīrah (biography) of the Prophet, have been poetical…
Poetic Genius and Poetic Jinni
Long appreciated for its combination of lyric charm and mordant wit, Ibn Shuhayd al-Andalusi's (992–1035) Risalat al-tawabiʿ wa-l-zawabiʿ (Epistle of Attendant Jinn and Whirling Demons), as I have argued recently, also offers a sophisticated treatise on poetic influence and inspiration. Composed around 1013–17, the epistle consists of the young poet's highly ironic and parodic defense against accusations of plagiarism leveled by one Abu Bakr ibn …
Al-Sharīf al-Radī and the Poetics of 'Alid Legitimacy Elegy for al-Husayn ibn 'Alī on 'Āshūrā', 391 A.H
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
The Mantle Odes
Also author of The Poetics of Islamic Legitimacy (2002) and The Mute Immortals Speak (1993), Stetkevych (Indiana Univ.) provides an original translation and careful analysis of three landmark poems in Arabic Islamic literature: Ka'b ibn Zuhayr's "Su'ad Has Departed" (presented to the prophet in his life), Al-Busiri's "Mantle Ode" (13th century), and Ahmad Shawqi's "The Way of the Mantle" (early 20th century). The author argues that these are esse…
The Snake in the Tree in Abu al-ʿAlaʾ al-Maʿarri’s Epistle of Forgiveness
This study first proposes to interpret the opening passages of Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī’s (363-449/973-1058) Risālat al-Ghufrān ( Epistle of Forgiveness ) in terms of the mythic, lexic and ludic elements that make up the substance of what is essentially a non-narrative discourse. The study argues that al-Maʿarrī uses his parodic “heavenly garden” as a “ludic space” in which his self-righteous protagonist and addressee, Ibn al-Qāriḥ, as well as his…
Abbasid Panegyric
This study argues that the third AH/ninth CE century panegyrists (praise poets) of the Abbasid caliphal court at Baghdad (and briefly at Samarra) were responsible for constructing the image of a Golden Age of Arab-Islamic dominion that was subsequently adopted by the poets and thinkers of the Nahḍa or ‘Arab Awakening’ of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Challenged to create a poetry that would serve as the linguistic correlative of the ast…
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