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Inside and Outside the Pleasure Scene In Poetry about Locations by al-Sarī al-Raffā' al-Mawsilī

Inside and Outside the Pleasure Scene In Poetry about Locations by al-Sarī al-Raffā' al-Mawsilī © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2009 DOI: 10.1163/008523709X12470367869940 Journal of Arabic Literature 40 (2009) 133-169 brill.nl/jal Inside and Outside the Pleasure Scene In Poetry about Locations by al-Sarī al-Raffā ʾ al-Maws ̣ ilī Jocelyn Sharlet University of California, Davis Abstract Al-Sarī al-Raffā ʾ al-Maws ̣ ilī was an Arabic poet known for his descriptive poetry who lived and worked in the tenth century in Iraq and Syria. Al-Sarī al-Raffā ʾ played an important role in the expansion and development of short descriptive poetry in Arabic in the late ninth and tenth centuries. This genre of poetry uses elaborate rhetoric to provide a nuanced commentary on the role of material things, bodies (both human and non-human), and locations in social life. Short descriptive poetry is part of an expansion of the cultural sphere, which includes yet extends beyond the political sphere at this time. An important feature of short descriptive poetry is an interest in the bodily pleasures enjoyed in the context of informal sociability. Descriptions of locations in which pleasure gatherings take place situate the interiority of the pleasure scene in counterpoint to the world beyond the pleasure scene, which includes politics, the military, morality, social hierarchy, and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Arabic Literature Brill

Inside and Outside the Pleasure Scene In Poetry about Locations by al-Sarī al-Raffā' al-Mawsilī

Sharlet, Jocelyn
Journal of Arabic Literature , Volume 40 (2): 133 – Jan 1, 2009
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© 2009 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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10.1163/008523709X12470367869940
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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2009 DOI: 10.1163/008523709X12470367869940 Journal of Arabic Literature 40 (2009) 133-169 brill.nl/jal Inside and Outside the Pleasure Scene In Poetry about Locations by al-Sarī al-Raffā ʾ al-Maws ̣ ilī Jocelyn Sharlet University of California, Davis Abstract Al-Sarī al-Raffā ʾ al-Maws ̣ ilī was an Arabic poet known for his descriptive poetry who lived and worked in the tenth century in Iraq and Syria. Al-Sarī al-Raffā ʾ played an important role in the expansion and development of short descriptive poetry in Arabic in the late ninth and tenth centuries. This genre of poetry uses elaborate rhetoric to provide a nuanced commentary on the role of material things, bodies (both human and non-human), and locations in social life. Short descriptive poetry is part of an expansion of the cultural sphere, which includes yet extends beyond the political sphere at this time. An important feature of short descriptive poetry is an interest in the bodily pleasures enjoyed in the context of informal sociability. Descriptions of locations in which pleasure gatherings take place situate the interiority of the pleasure scene in counterpoint to the world beyond the pleasure scene, which includes politics, the military, morality, social hierarchy, and

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Journal of Arabic Literature – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 2009

Keywords: WINE POETRY; AL-MUTANABBI; IWAN KISRA; EROTIC THEMES; KHAMRIYYAH; EKPHRASIS; RHETORIC; DESCRIPTIVE POETRY; AL-SARI AL-RAFFA; ABU NUWAS

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