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Introduction INTRODUCTION The Seventh Symposium on Classical Arabic Poetry was held in Pem- broke College, Cambridge, between the 18th and the 24th of July 1993. The theme of the Symposium was The Era of Abu Tammdm, al-Buhturi and Ibn al-Rumi and, following Symposium custom, a poem was chosen, this time by Professor Wolfhart Heinrichs and Dr Geert Jan van Gelder, for the Sym- posiasts to translate, viz. a panegyric by al-Buhturi, no. 51 in H. Kamil al- 5ayrafi's edition (rhyme-word al-jarfibf) (addressed to al-Fath Ibn Khdqdn). Unlike the poem chosen for the preceding Symposium (see Revelry and Re- morse, JAL 25.2 (July, 1994), 116-134), it was decided not to publish a translation of this piece. That there is also no article on al-Buhturi in the following Proceedings, although Professor S.P. Stetkevych delivered a paper on him, is perhaps due to the ground-breaking work done on this poet by Stefan Sperl in his Mannerism in Arabic Poetry (Cambridge 1989). One of the principal achievements of the Symposium, and I hope of these Proceedings, is the attention the symposiasts devote to little studied aspects of `Abbasid poetry. Professor Dr Renate Jacobi's piece on al-Khaydldni highlights an essential feature of this poetry, its tendency to take conven- tions to extremes, to push them to the limit. Dr Thomas Bauer re-establishes Abu Tammam's work as a Ghazal poet of seminal importance for the devel- opment of the genre, while Professor Dr Gregor Schoeler launches an inves- tigation of that characteristically 'Abbasid genre, the Epigram. Dr Pieter Smoor puts Ibn al-Rumi's marathl firmly in their traditional context and Dr Geert Jan van Gelder's contribution is a witty and pointed analysis of a renowned example of the long-poem format so beloved of Ibn al-Rumi. The Participants were: Dr P. Kennedy (Oxford), Professor J. Mattock (Glasgow), Professor S. Jayyusi, Professor S.P. Stetkevych (Indiana), Pro- fessor Dr R. Jacobi (Saarbrfcken), Professor W. Heinrichs (Harvard), Dr J.S. Meisami (Oxford), Professor A. Hamori (Princeton), Dr A. Schippers (Amsterdam), Dr G.J. van Gelder (Groningen), Dr P. Smoor (Amsterdam), Dr S. Sperl (SOAS), Dr T. Bauer (Erlangen-Niirnberg), Professor Dr G. Schoeler (Basel), Professor S. al-Mana (King Saud University, Riyadh), Professor P. Cachia (Columbia), Dr M.V. McDonald (Edinburgh) and Dr J.E. Montgomery (Oslo). It is hoped that a fuller volume of the Proceedings of the Eighth Sym- posium on Classical Arabic Poetry: The Age of al-Mutanabbi, held in July 1995, will shortly be forthcoming. University of Leeds JAMES E. MONTGOMERY http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Arabic Literature Brill

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Journal of Arabic Literature , Volume 27 (1): 1 – Jan 1, 1996
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INTRODUCTION The Seventh Symposium on Classical Arabic Poetry was held in Pem- broke College, Cambridge, between the 18th and the 24th of July 1993. The theme of the Symposium was The Era of Abu Tammdm, al-Buhturi and Ibn al-Rumi and, following Symposium custom, a poem was chosen, this time by Professor Wolfhart Heinrichs and Dr Geert Jan van Gelder, for the Sym- posiasts to translate, viz. a panegyric by al-Buhturi, no. 51 in H. Kamil al- 5ayrafi's edition (rhyme-word al-jarfibf) (addressed to al-Fath Ibn Khdqdn). Unlike the poem chosen for the preceding Symposium (see Revelry and Re- morse, JAL 25.2 (July, 1994), 116-134), it was decided not to publish a translation of this piece. That there is also no article on al-Buhturi in the following Proceedings, although Professor S.P. Stetkevych delivered a paper on him, is perhaps due to the ground-breaking work done on this poet by Stefan Sperl in his Mannerism in Arabic Poetry (Cambridge 1989). One of the principal achievements of the Symposium, and I hope of these Proceedings, is the attention the symposiasts devote to little studied aspects of `Abbasid poetry. Professor Dr Renate Jacobi's piece on al-Khaydldni highlights an essential feature of this poetry, its tendency to take conven- tions to extremes, to push them to the limit. Dr Thomas Bauer re-establishes Abu Tammam's work as a Ghazal poet of seminal importance for the devel- opment of the genre, while Professor Dr Gregor Schoeler launches an inves- tigation of that characteristically 'Abbasid genre, the Epigram. Dr Pieter Smoor puts Ibn al-Rumi's marathl firmly in their traditional context and Dr Geert Jan van Gelder's contribution is a witty and pointed analysis of a renowned example of the long-poem format so beloved of Ibn al-Rumi. The Participants were: Dr P. Kennedy (Oxford), Professor J. Mattock (Glasgow), Professor S. Jayyusi, Professor S.P. Stetkevych (Indiana), Pro- fessor Dr R. Jacobi (Saarbrfcken), Professor W. Heinrichs (Harvard), Dr J.S. Meisami (Oxford), Professor A. Hamori (Princeton), Dr A. Schippers (Amsterdam), Dr G.J. van Gelder (Groningen), Dr P. Smoor (Amsterdam), Dr S. Sperl (SOAS), Dr T. Bauer (Erlangen-Niirnberg), Professor Dr G. Schoeler (Basel), Professor S. al-Mana (King Saud University, Riyadh), Professor P. Cachia (Columbia), Dr M.V. McDonald (Edinburgh) and Dr J.E. Montgomery (Oslo). It is hoped that a fuller volume of the Proceedings of the Eighth Sym- posium on Classical Arabic Poetry: The Age of al-Mutanabbi, held in July 1995, will shortly be forthcoming. University of Leeds JAMES E. MONTGOMERY

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