East winds and full moons
Ramal al-Māyaand the peregrinations of love-poetry images
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3978785 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carl Davila (SUNY Brockport, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 7-26 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of North African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1362-9387 • E-ISSN: 1743-9345 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13629387.2013.862780 |
| OpenAlex | W1979640481 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 10 |
The Moroccan poetic-musical genre known as al-Āla, also commonly referred to as 'Andalusian music', illustrates the mytho-historical travels of love images from classical and post-classical Arabic poetry, preserving and re-presenting examples of them as part of Moroccan public culture in the twenty-first century. This tradition preserves a substantial number of poems, which clearly echo both the strophic and non-strophic facets of Arabic verse in their forms and contents, and which Moroccans regard, by virtue of their association with al-Āla, as part of an authentic cultural-historical heritage deriving from the Islamic period in Spain and Portugal (al-Andalus). Although the history of interchange between al-Andalus and North Africa would seem to make this attribution plausible, the idea that these songs derive from al-Andalus is problematic; none of the music and very little of the poetry can be traced to that era. Careful study of the love-poetry (ghazal) images in the nūba Ramal al-Māya – a suite of songs within the tradition ostensibly devoted to praise of the Prophet Muḥammad – shows that al-Āla in fact represents a distillation of major uses of such themes in Arabic verse deriving from contexts well beyond the Iberian Peninsula of the Islamic period. In fact, the poetry of Ramal al-Māya preserves poetic images and themes stemming from the classical Islamic period and in so doing serves as a means by which these images and themes are kept alive in contemporary Moroccan culture
Aesthetics · Arabic · Archaeology · Art · Islam · Linguistics · Literature · Period (music · Poetry · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Historical Studies of Medieval Iberia · History · Islamic Studies and History · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.09 |
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| Citation span | 2015 - 2015 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |