Nefeli Papoutsakis
Biographic Data
| ID | 7226849 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nefeli Papoutsakis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nefeli |
| FAMILY NAME | Papoutsakis |
| SIGNATURE | PAPOUTSAKIS N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The manṣūbah
The paper presents a now forgotten mini-genre of Arabic vernacular poetry that flourished between the 8th/14th and the 13th/19th century: the manṣūbah is a narrative poem cast in various vernacular forms ( kān wa-kān, zajal, mawwāl ) that recounts how the pauper poet deceived and seduced a mostly wealthy and socially superior beloved by appealing to her/his greed. To bring out the contours of the genre, I summarize the plots of the seven extant m…
Doing Justice to a Wronged Literature
Doing Justice to a Wronged Literature is a Festschrift for the Arabist and Islamicist Thomas Bauer. It includes 17 essays by established academics on various themes and aspects of Arabic literature and rhetoric of the Ayyubid, Mamluk and Ottoman periods (12th-18th centuries). Notoriously neglected and maligned by earlier scholarship, Arabic literature and rhetoric of the 12th-18th centuries is an understudied area of Arabic studies that Thomas Ba…
Quṭbaddīn an-Nahrawālī’s (917-990/1511-1582) Treasure of Names and Other Ottoman-Era Arabic Treatises on the Art of the Muʿammā
In Timurid times Persian littérateurs devised a new kind of logogriph (muʿammā) that differed considerably from the muʿammā as was known in the Arabic tradition. The most salient feature of the new, Persianate muʿammā, which is normally a couplet, is that it has two levels of meaning: an obvious or surface meaning (‘the poetic meaning’), and an encoded ‘riddle meaning’, which gives the clues to the solution of the riddle. Since the 16th century …
Zaynaddīn Ibn al-ʿAǧamī’s (591–674/1195–1276) Kitāb iʿǧāz al-munāǧī fī l-alġāz wa-l-aḥāǧī
This article presents a hitherto unnoted and unpublished thirteenth-century Arabic work on riddles. Zaynaddīn Ibn al-ʿAǧamī’s (591–674/1195–1276) Kitāb iʿǧāz al-munāǧī fī l-alġāz wa-l-aḥāǧī (The Confidant’s Bemusement: On Riddles and Charades) is the first surviving Arabic collection of literary riddles by a single author. The Aleppine littérateur and religious scholar Ibn al-ʿAǧamī composed this book for al-Malik an-Nāṣir Yūsuf, the last Ayyubid…
Šakwā and ḏamm az-zamān in Abū Tammām and Buḥturī
The present paper discusses Abū Tammām’s and Buḥturī’s frequent plaints about Time or the times and aims at demonstrating the conventionality and rhetoricity of their grievances and at highlighting their contribution to the shaping and growth of this poetic theme. Special attention is paid to how such plaints fit within the overall structures of their poems, especially eulogies. Rather than being an expression of genuine dismay at the corruption …
Ibn al-Mutazz the Epigrammatist
This paper demonstrates the importance of short forms — couplets, triplets and quatrains — in the work of the Abbasid poet Ibn al-Muʿtazz (861-908) and highlights the key role he played in the proliferation of the two-liner. It discusses the scholarly editions of his dīwān, offers statistical data regarding the frequency of the various short forms and comments on the arrangement of the poems in his dīwān. The discussion of a highly selective samp…
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Ibn al-Mutazz the Epigrammatist
This paper demonstrates the importance of short forms — couplets, triplets and quatrains — in the work of the Abbasid poet Ibn al-Muʿtazz (861-908) and highlights the key role he played in the proliferation of the two-liner. It discusses the scholarly editions of his dīwān, offers statistical data regarding the frequency of the various short forms and comments on the arrangement of the poems in his dīwān. The discussion of a highly selective samp…
Šakwā and ḏamm az-zamān in Abū Tammām and Buḥturī
The present paper discusses Abū Tammām’s and Buḥturī’s frequent plaints about Time or the times and aims at demonstrating the conventionality and rhetoricity of their grievances and at highlighting their contribution to the shaping and growth of this poetic theme. Special attention is paid to how such plaints fit within the overall structures of their poems, especially eulogies. Rather than being an expression of genuine dismay at the corruption …
Quṭbaddīn an-Nahrawālī’s (917-990/1511-1582) Treasure of Names and Other Ottoman-Era Arabic Treatises on the Art of the Muʿammā
In Timurid times Persian littérateurs devised a new kind of logogriph (muʿammā) that differed considerably from the muʿammā as was known in the Arabic tradition. The most salient feature of the new, Persianate muʿammā, which is normally a couplet, is that it has two levels of meaning: an obvious or surface meaning (‘the poetic meaning’), and an encoded ‘riddle meaning’, which gives the clues to the solution of the riddle. Since the 16th century …
Zaynaddīn Ibn al-ʿAǧamī’s (591–674/1195–1276) Kitāb iʿǧāz al-munāǧī fī l-alġāz wa-l-aḥāǧī
This article presents a hitherto unnoted and unpublished thirteenth-century Arabic work on riddles. Zaynaddīn Ibn al-ʿAǧamī’s (591–674/1195–1276) Kitāb iʿǧāz al-munāǧī fī l-alġāz wa-l-aḥāǧī (The Confidant’s Bemusement: On Riddles and Charades) is the first surviving Arabic collection of literary riddles by a single author. The Aleppine littérateur and religious scholar Ibn al-ʿAǧamī composed this book for al-Malik an-Nāṣir Yūsuf, the last Ayyubid…
Doing Justice to a Wronged Literature
Doing Justice to a Wronged Literature is a Festschrift for the Arabist and Islamicist Thomas Bauer. It includes 17 essays by established academics on various themes and aspects of Arabic literature and rhetoric of the Ayyubid, Mamluk and Ottoman periods (12th-18th centuries). Notoriously neglected and maligned by earlier scholarship, Arabic literature and rhetoric of the 12th-18th centuries is an understudied area of Arabic studies that Thomas Ba…
The manṣūbah
The paper presents a now forgotten mini-genre of Arabic vernacular poetry that flourished between the 8th/14th and the 13th/19th century: the manṣūbah is a narrative poem cast in various vernacular forms ( kān wa-kān, zajal, mawwāl ) that recounts how the pauper poet deceived and seduced a mostly wealthy and socially superior beloved by appealing to her/his greed. To bring out the contours of the genre, I summarize the plots of the seven extant m…
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