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The Mischievous Muse: Extant Poetry and Prose by Ibn QuzmÄn of Córdoba (d. AH 555/AD 1160)
Series: - Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures, Volume: 39
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The first part of this work includes all the known works of the twelfth-century Andalusi author Ibn QuzmÄn, most of which are zajal poems composed in the colloquial dialect of Andalus. They have been edited in a Romanized transliteration, and are accompanied by a facing-page English prose translation, along with notes and commentaries intended to elucidate matters relevant to each poem. In the second part of the work, sixteen chapters are devoted to analyzing specific poems from a literary perspective, in order to delve into their meaning and, thereby, explain the poetâs literary goals.
James T. Monroe: Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures (1964), Harvard University, has published monographs, books, translations, and numerous articles on the Arabic literature of Andalus.
"[Monroe] has spent nearly half a century wrestling with Ibn QuzmÄn's poetry, beginning with a graduate course at Harvard led by Sir Hamilton Gibb. That the fruit of such decades-long labor will be of perpetual benefit to poetry amateurs and academic specialists alike makes The Mischievous Muse an indispensable contribution to scholarship." - Kevin Blankinship, University of Utah, in: Al-Abhath 62-63 (2014-2015)
Those interested in Arabic literature in general, and that of Andalus in particular, Comparatists, Hispanists, and Romanists interested in the literary interactions between the medieval Iberian Peninsula and the Arab world. Islamic scholars and students of poetry.