Stefan Sperl
Biographic Data
| ID | 700018 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stefan Sperl |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stefan |
| FAMILY NAME | Sperl |
| SIGNATURE | SPERL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emeritus Professor of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London London UK |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Arabic Poetry and Neoplatonic Poetics
The paper argues that a Neoplatonic reading of classical Arabic poetry can help to understand the cosmological implications of its figurative language and provide a new conceptual framework for comparisons between Arabic literature and other literatures, both European and Middle Eastern. It begins with an outline of Neoplatonic cosmology with reference to the Arabic adaptations of Plotinus’s Enneads which appeared in the ninth century CE . The mi…
The Arabic Prose Poem: Poetic Theory and Practice, written by Huda J. Fakhreddine
The Cooing of the Dove and the Cawing of the Crow: Late ʿAbbāsid Poetics in Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī’s Saqṭ al-Zand and Luzūm Mā Lā Yalzam, written by Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych
"Man's "Hollow Core: Ethics and aesthetics in Ḥadīth literature and classical Arabic adab
Classical Arabic Ḥadīth literature is largely composed of micro-narratives recording the sayings and deeds of the Prophet Muḥammad. This study seeks to examine their literary form by focusing on selected examples listed in the canonical Ḥadīth compendia under the heading of adab, a term which may be rendered here as "practical ethics" but which is also commonly used to designate classical Arabic belles-lettres. While the latter is a type of liter…
Epic and Exile: Comparative Reflections on the Biography of the Prophet Muhammad, Virgil's Aeneid , and Valmiki's Ramayana
Research Article| May 01 2006 Epic and Exile: Comparative Reflections on the Biography of the Prophet Muhammad, Virgil's Aeneid, and Valmiki's Ramayana Stefan Sperl Stefan Sperl Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2006) 26 (1): 96–104. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-2005-012 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer…
Crossing enemy boundaries: Al-Buhturī's ode on the ruins of Ctesiphon re-read in the light of Virgil and Wilfred Owen
This article seeks to gain a better understanding of a famous ode by the 'Abbāsid court poet al-Buhturī (d. 897) by comparing it with two other works which exhibit a similar thematic development. One is an extract from The Aeneid by Virgil (d. 19 BC), the other a poem by Wilfred Owen (d. 1918). The three texts emanate from imperial identities (Roman, Arab and British) in a state of crisis, which in turn paves the way for cathartic encounters with…
Bärbel Beinhauer-Köhler, Fātima bint Muhammad: Metamorphosen einer frühislamischen Frauengestalt
Document. International refugee aid and social change in northern Mali
Document. International refugee aid and social change in northern Mali Get access S Sperl S Sperl Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Refugee Survey Quarterly, Volume 21, Issue 1_and_2, April 2002, Pages 147–159, https://doi.org/10.1093/rsq/21.1_and_2.147 Published: 01 April 2002
G. J. Van Gelder: Of dishes and discourse; classical Arabic literary representations of food . Richmond, Surrey: Curzon, 2000
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Qasida Poetry in Islamic Asia and Africa: 2. Eulogy's Bounty, Meaning's Abundance. An Anthology
The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004104525).
Qasida Poetry in Islamic Asia and Africa: 1. Classical Traditions & Modern Meanings
The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004104525)
The literary form of prayer: Qur՚ān sūra one, the Lord's Prayer and a Babylonian prayer to the Moon God
In his article 'Lecture de la Fātiḥa' Muhammad Arkoun develops principles for a contemporary rereading of scripture which differ markedly from those of classical exegesis. The latter rests upon the dogmatic certainty that scripture constitutes the only truth and the whole truth; hence it sees its task as rendering this truth accessible by recourse to a wide range of explanatory techniques. Arkoun's principles, on the other hand, are based upon th…
Kurdish Ethnonationalism
Arabic Poetics Revisited
Mannerism in Arabic Poetry: A Structural Analysis of Selected Texts (3rd Century AH/9th Century AD – 5th Century AH/11th Century AD)
This book attempts to identify elements of mannerism and classicism in medieval Arabic poetry. Mannerism in Arabic has usually been linked with the appearance of an ornate rhetorical style called badi which became characteristic of poetry and prose from the fifth century AH/ninth century AD onwards. This study, however, is not so much concerned with the discussion of rhetorical devices as manifest in selected passages and individual lines of poet…
Islamic Kingship and Arabic Panegyric Poetry in the Early 9Th Century
Among the ceremonial features of Abbasid court life was the recitation of poems in praise of the Caliphs and notables. These followed a clearly preordained pattern in their composition, and on recitation in the presence of the assembled court their authors were not seldom richly rewarded with money and robes of honour. The analysis of the poetic form of the royal panegyrics show that its development is a perfect illustration of the function of Ki…
Document. International refugee aid and social change in northern Mali
Document. International refugee aid and social change in northern Mali Get access S Sperl S Sperl Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Refugee Survey Quarterly, Volume 21, Issue 1_and_2, April 2002, Pages 147–159, https://doi.org/10.1093/rsq/21.1_and_2.147 Published: 01 April 2002
Islamic Kingship and Arabic Panegyric Poetry in the Early 9Th Century
Among the ceremonial features of Abbasid court life was the recitation of poems in praise of the Caliphs and notables. These followed a clearly preordained pattern in their composition, and on recitation in the presence of the assembled court their authors were not seldom richly rewarded with money and robes of honour. The analysis of the poetic form of the royal panegyrics show that its development is a perfect illustration of the function of Ki…
The literary form of prayer: Qur՚ān sūra one, the Lord's Prayer and a Babylonian prayer to the Moon God
In his article 'Lecture de la Fātiḥa' Muhammad Arkoun develops principles for a contemporary rereading of scripture which differ markedly from those of classical exegesis. The latter rests upon the dogmatic certainty that scripture constitutes the only truth and the whole truth; hence it sees its task as rendering this truth accessible by recourse to a wide range of explanatory techniques. Arkoun's principles, on the other hand, are based upon th…
Islamic Kingship and Arabic Panegyric Poetry in the Early 9Th Century
Among the ceremonial features of Abbasid court life was the recitation of poems in praise of the Caliphs and notables. These followed a clearly preordained pattern in their composition, and on recitation in the presence of the assembled court their authors were not seldom richly rewarded with money and robes of honour. The analysis of the poetic form of the royal panegyrics show that its development is a perfect illustration of the function of Ki…
Mannerism in Arabic Poetry: A Structural Analysis of Selected Texts (3rd Century AH/9th Century AD – 5th Century AH/11th Century AD)
This book attempts to identify elements of mannerism and classicism in medieval Arabic poetry. Mannerism in Arabic has usually been linked with the appearance of an ornate rhetorical style called badi which became characteristic of poetry and prose from the fifth century AH/ninth century AD onwards. This study, however, is not so much concerned with the discussion of rhetorical devices as manifest in selected passages and individual lines of poet…
Arabic Poetics Revisited
Kurdish Ethnonationalism
The literary form of prayer: Qur՚ān sūra one, the Lord's Prayer and a Babylonian prayer to the Moon God
In his article 'Lecture de la Fātiḥa' Muhammad Arkoun develops principles for a contemporary rereading of scripture which differ markedly from those of classical exegesis. The latter rests upon the dogmatic certainty that scripture constitutes the only truth and the whole truth; hence it sees its task as rendering this truth accessible by recourse to a wide range of explanatory techniques. Arkoun's principles, on the other hand, are based upon th…
Qasida Poetry in Islamic Asia and Africa: 2. Eulogy's Bounty, Meaning's Abundance. An Anthology
The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004104525).
Qasida Poetry in Islamic Asia and Africa: 1. Classical Traditions & Modern Meanings
The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004104525)
Document. International refugee aid and social change in northern Mali
Document. International refugee aid and social change in northern Mali Get access S Sperl S Sperl Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Refugee Survey Quarterly, Volume 21, Issue 1_and_2, April 2002, Pages 147–159, https://doi.org/10.1093/rsq/21.1_and_2.147 Published: 01 April 2002
G. J. Van Gelder: Of dishes and discourse; classical Arabic literary representations of food . Richmond, Surrey: Curzon, 2000
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Bärbel Beinhauer-Köhler, Fātima bint Muhammad: Metamorphosen einer frühislamischen Frauengestalt
Epic and Exile: Comparative Reflections on the Biography of the Prophet Muhammad, Virgil's Aeneid , and Valmiki's Ramayana
Research Article| May 01 2006 Epic and Exile: Comparative Reflections on the Biography of the Prophet Muhammad, Virgil's Aeneid, and Valmiki's Ramayana Stefan Sperl Stefan Sperl Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2006) 26 (1): 96–104. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-2005-012 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer…
Crossing enemy boundaries: Al-Buhturī's ode on the ruins of Ctesiphon re-read in the light of Virgil and Wilfred Owen
This article seeks to gain a better understanding of a famous ode by the 'Abbāsid court poet al-Buhturī (d. 897) by comparing it with two other works which exhibit a similar thematic development. One is an extract from The Aeneid by Virgil (d. 19 BC), the other a poem by Wilfred Owen (d. 1918). The three texts emanate from imperial identities (Roman, Arab and British) in a state of crisis, which in turn paves the way for cathartic encounters with…
"Man's "Hollow Core: Ethics and aesthetics in Ḥadīth literature and classical Arabic adab
Classical Arabic Ḥadīth literature is largely composed of micro-narratives recording the sayings and deeds of the Prophet Muḥammad. This study seeks to examine their literary form by focusing on selected examples listed in the canonical Ḥadīth compendia under the heading of adab, a term which may be rendered here as "practical ethics" but which is also commonly used to designate classical Arabic belles-lettres. While the latter is a type of liter…
The Arabic Prose Poem: Poetic Theory and Practice, written by Huda J. Fakhreddine
The Cooing of the Dove and the Cawing of the Crow: Late ʿAbbāsid Poetics in Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī’s Saqṭ al-Zand and Luzūm Mā Lā Yalzam, written by Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych
Arabic Poetry and Neoplatonic Poetics
The paper argues that a Neoplatonic reading of classical Arabic poetry can help to understand the cosmological implications of its figurative language and provide a new conceptual framework for comparisons between Arabic literature and other literatures, both European and Middle Eastern. It begins with an outline of Neoplatonic cosmology with reference to the Arabic adaptations of Plotinus’s Enneads which appeared in the ninth century CE . The mi…
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