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Book Reviews 204 Book Reviews way of a surplus of metaphors, erudite quotations and allusions, always within the conventional fakhr setting. What seems, however, to be lost in the late refutations is the freedom allowed to the Taifas literati to play with literary cliche ´s, while being aware of their conventional nature. Basically, all the sixth/twelfth century authors belong to the category of kuttab fuqaha’, typical of the Almoravid and Almohad period. This seems to justify the increasing virulence of their attacks on Ibn Garcı ´a’s shu‘ubi stance, down to al-Malaqi’s refutation (d. 603/1207), which contests both the political and the religious opportunity allowed to a non-Arab to articulate a shu‘ubi discourse, while using severe (though hardly unconventional) jihadi undertones. Besides its major shortcomings, Larsson’s book is also marred by frequent mistakes and inconsistencies that it would also be too long to list. One instance is the name of the famous Jewish vizir Ibn Naghrila, that is variously rendered as Naghrilla, Nagrila, Naghrila, Ha-Naghrı ´la. Or to the defective idafa of some titles, like the oft-repeated Al-tabaqat al-umam or Al-ansab al-ashraf (sic) or, to the contrary, ‘Iqd al-farid and Akhbar al-majmu‘a. The rhapsodic structure of the book also allows for some http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean Taylor & Francis

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204 Book Reviews way of a surplus of metaphors, erudite quotations and allusions, always within the conventional fakhr setting. What seems, however, to be lost in the late refutations is the freedom allowed to the Taifas literati to play with literary cliche ´s, while being aware of their conventional nature. Basically, all the sixth/twelfth century authors belong to the category of kuttab fuqaha’, typical of the Almoravid and Almohad period. This seems to justify the increasing virulence of their attacks on Ibn Garcı ´a’s shu‘ubi stance, down to al-Malaqi’s refutation (d. 603/1207), which contests both the political and the religious opportunity allowed to a non-Arab to articulate a shu‘ubi discourse, while using severe (though hardly unconventional) jihadi undertones. Besides its major shortcomings, Larsson’s book is also marred by frequent mistakes and inconsistencies that it would also be too long to list. One instance is the name of the famous Jewish vizir Ibn Naghrila, that is variously rendered as Naghrilla, Nagrila, Naghrila, Ha-Naghrı ´la. Or to the defective idafa of some titles, like the oft-repeated Al-tabaqat al-umam or Al-ansab al-ashraf (sic) or, to the contrary, ‘Iqd al-farid and Akhbar al-majmu‘a. The rhapsodic structure of the book also allows for some

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Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean – Taylor & Francis

Published: Sep 1, 2006

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