Throwing the Reins to the Reader: Hierarchy, Jurjānian Poetics, and al-Muṭarrizī’s Commentary on the Maqāmāt
This article introduces al-Muṭarrizī’s (d. 610/1213) commentary on the Maqāmāt of al-Ḥarīrī (d. 516/1122), al-Īḍāḥ fī sharḥ al-maqāmāt. The commentary begins with a lengthy preface, which announces that it will provide the Maqāmāt’s reader with the interpretive tools necessary to recognize that al-Ḥ...
| Published in: | Journal of Abbasid Studies |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2018
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Journal of Abbasid Studies
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Arabic Literature
commentary
Maqāmāt
poetics
Qurʾān
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| Summary: | This article introduces al-Muṭarrizī’s (d. 610/1213) commentary on the Maqāmāt of al-Ḥarīrī (d. 516/1122), al-Īḍāḥ fī sharḥ al-maqāmāt. The commentary begins with a lengthy preface, which announces that it will provide the Maqāmāt’s reader with the interpretive tools necessary to recognize that al-Ḥarīrī’s Maqāmāt is an excellent, and possibly inimitable, text. The first portion of al-Muṭarrizī’s preface, examined in detail here, contains a collage of passages and paraphrases from the two major works on poetics by ʿAbd al-Qāhir al-Jurjānī (d. 471/1078 or 474/1081). The article argues that al-Muṭarrizī, al-Jurjānī, and al-Ḥarīrī shared a common commitment to the idea that language ought to make apparent the intellectual hierarchies among readers. This overlooked aspect of Jurjānian poetics helps shed light on the reading and interpretive practices that informed the Maqāmāt’s enthusiastic reception as a text that was Qurʾān-like in its inimitability. |
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| ISSN: | 2214-2371 |
| Contains: | In: Journal of Abbasid Studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/22142371-12340040 |