Eloquent Exchange: Asceticism and Shirāʾ in the Poetry of Qaṭarī b. al-Fujāʾa

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Titre
Eloquent Exchange: Asceticism and Shirāʾ in the Poetry of Qaṭarī b. al-Fujāʾa
Date
2024
Dans
Rulers as Authors in the Islamic World Knowledge, Authority and Legitimacy
Islamic History and Civilization
Résumé
Abstract The world-denying ethos of Qaṭarī b. al-Fujāʾa’s poetry and sermons seems in conflict with the more worldly implications of his leadership role as Caliph of the Azāriqa Khārijites. By clarifying what purposes his missives might have served in the contexts in which they appeared, and by asking how the Azāriqa might have conceptualized governance (as succession to the Prophet Muḥammad and as chief of a militarized conquest state), it will be shown that Ibn al-Fujāʾa and the Azraqīs idealized the austerity of the Muslim conquests (futūḥāt), while simultaneously looking to figures such as ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb as tacit models of exemplary guidance. His literary output and leadership role thus make sense when examined in their late antique context.
Place
Leiden
Langue
eng
Numéro
213
pages
30-36
ISBN
978-90-04-69061-5
Titre abrégé
2 Eloquent Exchange

Gaiser, Adam, “Eloquent Exchange: Asceticism and Shirāʾ in the Poetry of Qaṭarī b. al-Fujāʾa”, Brill, 2024, bibliographie, consulté le 21 décembre 2024, https://ibadica.org/s/bibliographie/item/22587

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