TY - JOUR
AU - Ajami, Mansour J.
AB -  � AMUD AL-SHI � R: LEOITIMIZATION OF TRADITION CAmud al-shicr (the essentials of poetry) was a body of loosely related critical conceptions formulated during the fourth and fifth centuries A.H., primarily as a reaction to the New Style (al-badZC), which had appeared in the latter part of the second century A.H. The New Style of such poets as Bashshar ibn Burd (d. 167 A.H./784 A.D.), Abu Nuwas (d. 198 A.H./814 A.D.), Muslim ibn al-Walid (d. 208 A.H./823 A.D.) and in particular Abu Tammam (d. 231 A.H./845 A.D.) was characterized by "unconventional" imagery, "original" meanings and daring metaphors. Conser- vative poets and critics, finding the New Style "artificial, contrived and farfetched",' sought to reaffirm the "natural" and "ideal" conventions of the "ancient", or "beduin", poetic tradition. CA mid al-shicr was thus the systematic formulation of tenets representing the traditional conception of the ideal Arabic poem. The term camud (literally the pole of a tent, a pillar or a mainstay) could be used metaphorically to represent a set of characteristics or principles underlying a given concept or literary genre. The word could be combined with other terms to create technical expressions, such as camud al-khatabah (oratory),2 2 camud al-baldghah (eloquence)3 
TI - Amud Al-ShiR: Leoitimization of Tradition
JF - Journal of Arabic Literature
DO - 10.1163/157006481X00026
DA - 1981-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/brill/amud-al-shir-leoitimization-of-tradition-oM7YOtc26C
SP - 30
EP - 48
VL - 12
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -