Red Pomegranates - Love, Beauty and Deceit: Arabic Poetry About, For, and by Women (Issn)

This four-part book focuses on the voice of women in principally the Arab and Islamic world, a world which because of demographics has become almost universal. By employing the symbol of the red pomegranates the authors symbolize a woman's nurturing, life-sustaining, and loving powers while simultaneously extolling her grand physicality and sexual appeal. In addition, this is a book about love, both physical and spiritual, and how its presence serves to regulate human life, while its absence exacerbates human problems. In either case, the language of discourse is the medium of poetry, discourse in the vernacular being totally inadequate to achieve the goal of explaining and expressing love's role and goal in human existence. The role of love and the female poets, ancient and modern, who have written about it are herein praised, enshrined, extolled and accorded their proper place in the history of poetic communication. Preliminary remarks concerning poetry and narrative about Arab women -- General introduction -- A flame of love -- Introduction -- Reflection on the Arab woman : a socio-cultural and religious perspective -- The Arab woman during the Jahiliyyah period -- The Arab woman during the Islamic period -- The notion of love in love poetry -- Al-Ghazal al-'Udhri (courteous love) -- The characteristics of al-Ghazal al-'Udhri in the Islamic time -- Al-Ghazal al-Hissi : sensual (passionate) love poetry -- The image of the woman in early Arabic poetry : a historical perspective -- The woman between the ideal and the real -- Oral poetry -- Women's Deceit -- A Qur'anic perspective with Medieval commentary -- Introduction -- Women's Deceit -- Poetry of twenty female Arab poets -- African-American female poets : establishing a framework -- "Western" female poets -- Arab poetry by women -- Twenty contemporary Arab women poets. The series Islamkundliche Untersuchungen was founded in 1969 by the Klaus Schwarz Verlag. Since then, it has become one of the most important venues for publications in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies. Its more than 350 volumes cover a wide range of topics from the history, culture and societies of the Middle East and North Africa as well as neighboring regions in central, south and southeast Asia.

Die Reihe Islamkundliche Untersuchungen wurde 1969 im Klaus Schwarz Verlag begründet und hat sich zu einem der wichtigsten Publikationsorgane der Islamwissenschaft in Deutschland entwickelt. Die über 330 Bände widmen sich der Geschichte, Kultur und den Gesellschaften Nordafrikas, des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens sowie Zentral-, Süd- und Südost-Asiens.

Caspi,Mishael,M.,et,al.,Red,Pomegranates:,Love,Beauty,and,Deceit,:,Arabic,Poetry,about,for,and,by,Women,Walter,de,Gruyter,GmbH,2020.,ProQuest,Ebook,Central,http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/nyulibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=6349332. Created,from,nyulibrary-ebooks,on,2021-08-01,09:43:28. No detailed description available for'Red Pomegranates: Love, Beauty and Deceit'.