Wonderful remains. Monuments, traces, and temporal discontinuities in medieval and modern Arabic literature · The depiction of ruins is a recurring theme in Arabic literature, originating in its foundational texts – pre-Islamic poetry – and persisting through medieval poetry, geographical literature, and Adab anthologies. Drawing on these sources, this paper presents an excursus on the theme of ruins in medieval, pre-modern, and Nahḍa-era texts. The central hypothesis is to show how the representations of ruins, characterized by the themes of wonder (ʿajab) and admonition (ʿibra), r eflect the perception of what is time, history and the complex cartography of the Islamic past(s).
Mirabili resti. Monumenti, tracce e discontinuità temporali nella letteratura araba medievale e moderna
Benigni
2025-01-01
Abstract
Wonderful remains. Monuments, traces, and temporal discontinuities in medieval and modern Arabic literature · The depiction of ruins is a recurring theme in Arabic literature, originating in its foundational texts – pre-Islamic poetry – and persisting through medieval poetry, geographical literature, and Adab anthologies. Drawing on these sources, this paper presents an excursus on the theme of ruins in medieval, pre-modern, and Nahḍa-era texts. The central hypothesis is to show how the representations of ruins, characterized by the themes of wonder (ʿajab) and admonition (ʿibra), r eflect the perception of what is time, history and the complex cartography of the Islamic past(s).
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