The Cooing of the Dove and the Cawing of the Crow
ISBN: 9789004499287
Platform/Publisher: BRILL / BRILL
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
Subjects: Natural law; Salamanca school (Catholic theology); Church and social problems; International law;

In The Cooing of the Dove and the Cawing of the Crow Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych offers original translations, close readings, and new interpretations of selected poems from the two contrasting diwans of the blind Late ʿAbbāsid master-poet, Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī (d. 449 H./1057 C.E.). The first is Saqṭ al-Zand ( Sparks of the Flint ), the highly esteemed collection of qaṣīdah poetry of his youth, which he later disavowed. The second is Luzūm Mā Lā Yalzam ( Requiring What Is Not Required ), the programmatic double-rhymed collection from his later period of withdrawal and seclusion. She argues that the contrasting 'poetics of engagement' and 'poetics of disengagement' of the two diwans reflect the transition from High Classical to Post Classical aesthetics.


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