Week 1 February 22 al-Silaf?; al-Qif??
Set Reading
Al-Silaf?
Bonebakker, S.A., and Fishbein, M. A Reader of Classical Arabic Literature. Atlanta: Lockwood Press, 2012, 12–19.
Al-Qif??
Bonebakker, S.A., and Fishbein M. A Reader of Classical Arabic Literature. Atlanta: Lockwood Press, 2012, 20–39.
Al-Qif??, ?Al? b. Y?suf. Inb?h Al-Ruw? ?al? Anb?h Al-Nu??. Edited by Mu?ammad A. Ibr?h?m. Cairo: D?r al-Fikr al-?Arab?, 1986, vl.1, 359–362.
Further
Al-Silaf?
Al-B?r?d?, ?A.?U. Muqaddima of Mu?jam al-safar, by al-Silaf?. Edited by ?Abdallah ?U al-B?r?d?. Beirut: D?r al-Fikr, 1993, 3–4.
Gilliot, Cl. EI2, s.v. “al-Silaf?.”
Zaman, S.M. “Silaf?’s Biography: His Birth and Family Background.” Islamic Studies 25, no. 1 (1986): 1–10.
———. “Sources for Silaf?’s Biography.” Islamic Studies 24, no. 4 (1985): 493–502.
Al-Qif??
Al-?afad?, Khal?l b. Aybak. Al-W?f? bi-l-wafay?t. Edited by A?mad al-Arn???? and Turk? Mu??af?. Beirut: D?r I?y?? al-Tur?th al-?Arab?, 2000, vl.22, 210.
Al-Kutub?, Mu?ammad b. Sh?kir. Faw?t al-wafay?t wa-l-dhayl ?alayh?. Edited by I?s?n ?Abb?s. Beirut: D?r ??dir, 1974, vl.3, 117–118.
Robinson, Chase F. Islamic Historiography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Week 3 March 8 al-Dhahab? and al-Kha??b al-Baghd?d?
*Quiz
Set Reading
*Bonebakker, S.A., and Fishbein, M. A Reader of Classical Arabic Literature. Atlanta: Lockwood Press, 2012, 67–76.
Al-Kha??b al-Baghd?d?. T?r?kh Mad?nat al-Sal?m. Edited by Bashsh?r ?Aww?r Ma?r?f. Beirut: D?r al-Gharb al-Isl?m?, 2001, vl.4, 284–295.
Further
Ben Cheneb, M. and Somogyi, J. EI2, s.v. “al-Dhahab?.”
Bori, C. EI3, s.v. “al-Dhahab?.”
Sellheim, R., J. EI2, s.v. “al-K?h?a??b al-Bag?h?d?d?.”
Cooperson, M. Classical Arabic Biography: The Heirs of the Prophets in the Age of Al-Ma?m?n. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, 1-23.
Week 4 March 15 al-Mu??f?
*Quiz
Set Reading
*Bonebakker, S.A., and Fishbein, M. A Reader of Classical Arabic Literature. Atlanta: Lockwood Press, 2012, 40–66.
Further
Chejne, A.G. “The Boon-Companion in Early ’Abb?sid Times.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 85, no. 3 (1965): 327–335.
Ibn Nadim. Al-Fihrist. Edited by Ri?? Tajaddud. Tehran: D?r al-Mas?ra, 1988, 292–293.
Al-Kha??b al-Baghd?d?. T?r?kh Mad?nat al-Sal?m. Edited by Bashsh?r ?Aww?r Ma?r?f. Beirut: D?r al-Gharb al-Isl?m?, 2001, vl.15, 308.
Week 5 March 22 al-??b? and al-Bakr?
*Quiz
Set Reading
*Bonebakker, S.A., and Fishbein, M. A Reader of Classical Arabic Literature. Atlanta: Lockwood Press, 2012, 94–113 (al-??b?); 117–126 (al-Bakr?)
Further
Lévi-Provençal, E., EI2, s.v. “Ab? ?Ubayd al-Bakr?.”
Sourdel D. EI2, s.v. “Hil?l b. al-Mu?assin b. Ibr?h?m al-??bi?.”
van Berkel, Maaike, et al.. Crisis and Continuity at the Abbasid Court: Formal and Informal Politics in the Caliphate of al-Muqtadir (295–320/908–32). 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-I?fah?n?
*Quiz
Set Reading
Y?q?t. Mu?jam al-udab??, ed. A?mad F. Rif??? (Cairo: Ma?b???t al-Ma?m?n, 1922), vl.13, 94–130.
*Ab? al-Faraj ?Al? b. al-?usayn al-I?fah?n?, Kit?b Al-Agh?n?, ed. Y?suf al-Baq??? and Ghar?d al-Shaykh (Beirut: Mu?assasat al-A?lam?, 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 Ab? al-Faraj al-I?bah?n?’s Kit?b al-Agh?n?. London: Routledge, 2003.
Günther, G. EI3, s.v. “Ab? al-Faraj al-I?fah?n?.”
W11–16 Ibn al-Muqaffa?
Set Reading
About Ibn al-Muqaffa? (W11)
Ibn Nadim. Al-Fihrist. Edited by Ri?? Tajaddud. Tehran: D?r al-Mas?ra, 1988, 129–155.
Ibn al-Qif??. Ikhb?r Al-?ulam?? Bi-Akhb?r Al-?ukam??. Edited by Ibr?h?m Shams al-D?n. Beirut: D?r al-Kutub al-?Ilmiyya, 2005, 170.
Al-Zirikl?, Khayr al-D?n. Al-A?l?m. Beirut: D?r al-?Ilm li-l-Mal?y?n, 2002, vl.4, 140.
Ibn al-Muqaffa?’s Kal?la wa-Dimna (W12-16)
W12 (quiz)
*Ibn al-Muqaffa?. ?th?r Ibn Al-Muqaffa?. Beirut: D?r al-Kutub al-?Ilmiyya, 1989, 3–4, 43–45, 50–54.
Ibn al-Muqaffa?’s Kal?la wa-Dimna and Ris?la (W13-16)
Ibn al-Muqaffa?. ?th?r Ibn Al-Muqaffa?. Beirut: D?r al-Kutub al-?Ilmiyya, 7–23, 26–42, 71–85, 179–199, 309–323.
See also:
Ibn al-Muqaffa?. ?th?r Ibn Al-Muqaffa?. Beirut: D?r al-Kutub al-?Ilmiyya, 1989, 71–242.
Shaked, S. and Safa, Z. Encyclopaedia Iranica, s.v. ‘Andarz.’
Crone, P. Medieval Islamic Political Thought. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005, 148–164.
Latham, J. D. “Ibn Al-Muqaffa? and Early ?Abbasid Prose.” Chapter. Dans Abbasid Belles Lettres. Sous la direction de Julia Ashtiany, T. M. Johnstone, J. D. Latham and R. B. Serjeant, 48–77. 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, 183–198.
J. Derek Latham, “EBN AL-MOQAFFA?, AB? MO?AMMAD ?ABD-ALL?H R?ZBEH,” 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-Mu?affa?”, 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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