SemesterSpring Semester, 2021
DepartmentSenior Class of Department of Arabic Language and Culture
Course NameTopics on Literature
InstructorSU I-WEN
Credit3.0
Course TypeSelectively
Prerequisite
Course Objective
Course Description
Course Schedule

 



Schedule



Week 1 February 22              Induction; al-Silafī’s Muʿjam; al-Qifṭī



Week 2 March 1                     Holiday



Week 3 March 8                     al-Dhahabī and al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī (Quiz)



Week 4 March 15                   al-Muʿāfā (Quiz)



Week 5 March 22                   al-Ṣabī and al-Bakrī (Quiz)



Week 6 March 29                   Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣfahānī



Week 7 April 5                        Holiday



Week 8 April 12                      Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣfahānī (Quiz)



Week 9 April 19                      Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣfahānī



Week 10 April 26                    Midterm Examination



Week 11 May 3                       Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ



Week 12 May 10                     Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ (Quiz)



Week 13 May 17                     Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ (Quiz)



Week 14 May 24                     Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ (Rehearsal)



Week 15 May 31                     Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ (Rehearsal)



Week 16 June 7                      Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ (Rehearsal)



Week 17 June 14                    Holiday



Week 18 June 21                   Play


Teaching Methods
Teaching Assistant

NA


Requirement/Grading

 



Evaluation



Midterm: 25%



Quizzes: 30%



Final: 25%



Tutorial: 20%



 



 



* Please note that cheating in quizzes and exams is unacceptable under any circumstance. If you cheat in a quiz or exam, you will be failed.



 


 


Textbook & Reference

Week 1 February 22   al-Silafī; al-Qifṭī



 



Set Reading



Al-Silafī



Bonebakker, S.A., and Fishbein, M. A Reader of Classical Arabic Literature. Atlanta: Lockwood Press, 2012, 1219.



Al-Qifṭī



Bonebakker, S.A., and Fishbein M. A Reader of Classical Arabic Literature. Atlanta: Lockwood Press, 2012, 2039.



Al-Qifṭī, ʿAlī b. Yūsuf. Inbāh Al-Ruwā ʿalā Anbāh Al-Nuḥā. Edited by Muammad A. Ibrāhīm. Cairo: Dār al-Fikr al-ʿArabī, 1986, vl.1, 359362.



 



Further



Al-Silafī



Al-Bārūdī, ʿA.ʿU. Muqaddima of Muʿjam al-safar, by al-Silafī. Edited by ʿAbdallah ʿU al-Bārūdī. Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993, 34.



Gilliot, Cl. EI2, s.v. “al-Silafī.”



Zaman, S.M. “Silafī’s Biography: His Birth and Family Background.” Islamic Studies 25, no. 1 (1986): 110.



———. “Sources for Silafī’s Biography.” Islamic Studies 24, no. 4 (1985): 493502.



 



Al-Qifṭī



Al-afadī, Khalīl b. Aybak. Al-Wāfī bi-l-wafayāt. Edited by Amad al-Arnāʾūṭ and Turkī Muṣṭafā. Beirut: Dār Iyāʾ al-Turāth al-ʿArabī, 2000, vl.22, 210.



Al-Kutubī, Muammad b. Shākir. Fawāt al-wafayāt wa-l-dhayl ʿalayhā. Edited by Isān ʿAbbās. Beirut: Dār Ṣādir, 1974, vl.3, 117118.



Robinson, Chase F. Islamic Historiography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.



 



Week 3 March 8         al-Dhahabī and al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī



*Quiz



Set Reading



*Bonebakker, S.A., and Fishbein, M.  A Reader of Classical Arabic Literature. Atlanta: Lockwood Press, 2012, 6776.



Al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī. Tārīkh Madīnat al-Salām. Edited by Bashshār ʿAwwār Maʿrūf. Beirut: Dār al-Gharb al-Islāmī, 2001, vl.4, 284295.



 



Further



Ben Cheneb, M. and Somogyi, J. EI2, s.v. “al-Dhahabī.”



Bori, C. EI3, s.v. “al-Dhahabī.”



Sellheim, R., J. EI2, s.v. “al-K̲h̲aṭīb al-Bag̲h̲dādī.”



Cooperson, M. Classical Arabic Biography: The Heirs of the Prophets in the Age of Al-Maʿmūn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, 1-23.



 



Week 4 March 15       al-Muʿāfā



            *Quiz



Set Reading



*Bonebakker, S.A., and Fishbein, M. A Reader of Classical Arabic Literature. Atlanta: Lockwood Press, 2012, 4066.



 



Further



Chejne, A.G. “The Boon-Companion in Early ’Abbāsid Times.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 85, no. 3 (1965): 327335.



Ibn Nadim. Al-Fihrist. Edited by Riḍā Tajaddud. Tehran: Dār al-Masīra, 1988, 292293.



Al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī. Tārīkh Madīnat al-Salām. Edited by Bashshār ʿAwwār Maʿrūf. Beirut: Dār al-Gharb al-Islāmī, 2001, vl.15, 308.



 



Week 5 March 22       al-Ṣābī and al-Bakrī



*Quiz



Set Reading



*Bonebakker, S.A., and Fishbein, M. A Reader of Classical Arabic Literature. Atlanta: Lockwood Press, 2012, 94113 (al-Ṣābī); 117126 (al-Bakrī)



 



Further



Lévi-Provençal, E., EI2, s.v. “Abū ʿUbayd al-Bakrī.”



Sourdel D. EI2, s.v. “Hilāl b. al-Muassin b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṣābiʾ.”



van Berkel, Maaike, et al.. Crisis and Continuity at the Abbasid Court: Formal and Informal Politics in the Caliphate of al-Muqtadir (295320/90832). Leiden: Brill, 2013.



Kraemer, J.L. Humanism in the Renaissance of Islam: The Cultural Revival During the Buyid Age. Leiden: Brill, 1986.



Mottahedeh, R. Loyalty and Leadership in an Early Islamic Society. London: Tauris, 2001.



 



W6, 8, 9 (March 29, April 12 and April 19)   al-Ifahānī



*Quiz



Set Reading



Yāqūt. Muʿjam al-udabāʾ, ed. Amad F. Rifāʿī (Cairo: Mabūʿāt al-Maʾmūn, 1922), vl.13, 94130.



*Abū al-Faraj ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn al-Iṣfahānī, Kitāb Al-Aghānī, ed. Yūsuf al-Baqāʿī and Gharīd al-Shaykh (Beirut: Muʾassasat al-Aʿlamī, 2000), vol.4, 210–234 (quiz on April 12: 210–215).



 



Further



Kilpatrick, H. Making the Great Book of Songs: Compilations and the Author’s Craft in Abū al-Faraj al-Ibahānī’s Kitāb al-Aghānī. London: Routledge, 2003.



Günther, G. EI3, s.v. “Abū al-Faraj al-Ifahānī.”



 



W1116          Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ



 



Set Reading



About Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ (W11)



Ibn Nadim. Al-Fihrist. Edited by Riḍā Tajaddud. Tehran: Dār al-Masīra, 1988, 129155.



Ibn al-Qifṭī. Ikhbār Al-ʿulamāʾ Bi-Akhbār Al-ukamāʾ. Edited by Ibrāhīm Shams al-Dīn. Beirut: Dār al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2005, 170.



Al-Ziriklī, Khayr al-Dīn. Al-Aʿlām. Beirut: Dār al-ʿIlm li-l-Malāyīn, 2002, vl.4, 140.



 



Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ’s Kalīla wa-Dimna (W12-16)



W12 (quiz)



*Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ. Āthār Ibn Al-Muqaffaʿ. Beirut: Dār al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 1989, 3–4, 43–45, 50–54.



 



Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ’s Kalīla wa-Dimna and Risāla (W13-16)



Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ. Āthār Ibn Al-Muqaffaʿ. Beirut: Dār al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 7–23, 26–42, 71–85, 179–199, 309–323.



 



See also:



Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ. Āthār Ibn Al-Muqaffaʿ. Beirut: Dār al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 1989, 71–242.



Shaked, S. and Safa, Z. Encyclopaedia Iranica, s.v. ‘Andarz.’



Crone, P. Medieval Islamic Political Thought. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005, 148164.



Latham, J. D. “Ibn Al-Muqaffaʿ and Early ʿAbbasid Prose.” Chapter. Dans Abbasid Belles Lettres. Sous la direction de Julia Ashtiany, T. M. Johnstone, J. D. Latham and R. B. Serjeant, 4877. The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. doi:10.1017/CHOL9780521240161.005.



Marsham, Andrew. Rituals of Islamic Monarchy: Accession and Succession in the First Muslim Empire. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013, 183198.



J. Derek Latham, “EBN AL-MOQAFFAʿ, ABŪ MOAMMAD ʿABD-ALLĀH RŌZBEH,” Encyclopaedia Iranica, VIII/1, pp. 39-43, available online at http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/ebn-al-moqaffa (accessed on 30 December 2012).



Riedel, Dagmar, “KALILA WA DEMNA i. Redactions and circulation,” ,” Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. XV, Fasc. 4, pp. 386-395, available online at http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/kalila-demna-i



Gabrieli, F., “Ibn al-Muaffaʿ”, in: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Edited by: P. Bearman, Th. Bianquis, C.E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel, W.P. Heinrichs. Consulted online on 09 December 2019 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_3304>


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