Philip Kennedy

Biographic Data

ID5656674
NAMEPhilip Kennedy
GIVEN NAMESPhilip
FAMILY NAMEKennedy
SIGNATUREKENNEDY P
AFFILIATIONSNew York University
ORCID0000-0001-6114-1008
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1970
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
H-INDEX0

  • Recognition in the Arabic Narrative Tradition

    Philip F Kennedy, Philip KennedyBOOKRecognition in the Arabic…2016

  • Conclusion

    Open AccessPhilip F Kennedy, Philip KennedyCHAPTERRecognition in the Arabic…2016

    It is tempting to contrive a conclusion for a book on anagnorisis with a recognition scene: to declare, somehow, ‘this is what anagnorisis tells us, against expectation, or this is what it all turns out to be about.’ Such a conclusion would be possible if this study were exhaustive, but it is not....

  • Recognition in the Arabic Narrative Tradition

    Open AccessPhilip KennedyBOOKRecognition in the Arabic…2016

    The first study to analyse the recognition scene in the Arabic narrative tradition. According to Aristotle, a well-crafted recognition scene is one of the basic constituents of a successful narrative. It is the point when hidden facts and identities come to light – in the classic instance, a son discovers in horror that his wife is his mother and his children are his siblings. Aristotle coined the term 'anagnôrisis' for the concept. In this book …

  • Twentieth-Century Theologians

    Philip KennedyEDITORBOOKTwentieth-Century Theologians2010

    One needs to be a lunatic to become a Christian, the 19th century Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard once observed. Had he lived in the 20th century he might have discerned even more of an obstacle to faith. For during the last century the human condition changed more rapidly than during any previous era, taking that condition far away from the historical circumstances in which Christianity was born. In his new book, Philip Kennedy explores the…

  • Sons and Lovers and the Mirage

    Philip F Kennedy, Philip KennedyARTICLEJournal of Arabic Literature2010

    This essay provides a commentary on one of the less celebrated novels of Najīb Mahfū z,al-Sarāb (The Mirage), one of a series of tragic melodramas he wrote in the 1940s. Uniquely in Mahfūz’s oeuvre, this novel explores an “Oedipal” relationship between the narrator/protagonist and his mother; it is a relationship that blights the man’s married life. What Aristotle identified as anagnorisis—a movement towards startling disclosure—is a common featu…

  • The Discovery at Madāʾin Ṣāliḥ

    Philip F Kennedy, Philip Kennedy et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1998

  • Kamal Abdel-Walek, A Study of the Vernacular Poetry of Ahmad Fu'ād Nigm, Studies in Arabic Literature, vol. XII

    Philip F Kennedy, Philip KennedyARTICLEJournal of Arabic Literature1994

  • Khamr and Hikma in Jahili Poetry 1

    Philip F Kennedy, Philip KennedyARTICLEJournal of Arabic Literature1989

  • Reason and Revelation or a Philosopher's Squib (The Sixth Maqāma of Ibn Nāqiyā)

    Open AccessPhilip F Kennedy, Philip KennedyARTICLEJournal of Arabic and Islamic…1970

    Ibn Nāqiyā (d. 1092) is far less well-known than Badiʿ al-Zamān al-Hamadhānī (d. 1008), creator of the maqāma genre and luminary of the Arabic literary canon. After al-Hamadhānī our attention turns normally to al-Ḥarīrī (d. 1122), who refined certain (mainly linguistic) features of the genre and who has subsequently eclipsed the fame of other authors. Ibn Nāqiyā comes chronologically midway between al-Hamadhānī and al-Ḥarīrī; he amplifies more th…