Abū l-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī’s Muʿjiz Aḥmad and the Limits of Poetic Commentary

The poetry of Abū ṭ-Ṭayyib al-Mutanabbī (d. 354/965) has been the focus of numerous commentaries, most of them composed by philologists. This paper presents a comparison between one commentary, Muʿjiz Aḥmad, written by the poet Abū l-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī (d. 449/1058), and another authored by the philol...

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Main Author: Larkin, Margaret (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2013
In: Oriens
Year: 2013, Volume: 41, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 479-497
Further subjects:B Muʿjiz Aḥmad
B poetry commentary
B Abū l-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī
B Abū ṭ-Ṭayyib al-Mutanabbī
B aesthetic criticism
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