Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia, Volume 1 Poetry of ad-Dindan

Kurpershoek, Marcel

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“…Across the Arab World, there are dozens of di erent genres of rhymed oral poetry in a large variety of di erent forms and rhyme schemes. 19 Some are composed spontaneously at weddings and other celebrations, others are more carefully cra ed over time, some are performed in 'poetic duels' , others are recited as historical accounts or as political and social commentary, and others simply as a form of entertainment (see, for example, Caton 1990;Al-Ghadeer 2009;Kurpershoek 1994;Yaqub 2007). Among these many di erent genres, the lengthy narratives recounted in prose and verse called folk siyar (s. sīra) in Arabic, and referred to in western languages as epics, romances, gestes and other terms, o er a remarkable opportunity to study the composition techniques of oral rhymed poetry.…”

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Rhyme and Rhyming in Verbal Art, Language, and Song

2022

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This collection of thirteen chapters answers new questions about rhyme, with views from folklore, ethnopoetics, the history of literature, literary criticism and music criticism, psychology and linguistics. The book examines rhyme as practiced or as understood in English, Old English and Old Norse, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish and Karelian, Estonian, Medieval Latin, Arabic, and the Central Australian language Kaytetye. Some authors examine written poetry, including modernist poetry, and others focus on various kinds of sung poetry, including rap, which now has a pioneering role in taking rhyme into new traditions. Some authors consider the relation of rhyme to other types of form, notably alliteration. An introductory chapter discusses approaches to rhyme, and ends with a list of languages whose literatures or song traditions are known to have rhyme.

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Rhyme and Rhyming in Verbal Art, Language, and Song

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Spatial Frames of Reference in Traditional Negev Arabic: Language-to-Cognition Correlation

Cerqueglini

2015

Cogn Process

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Linguistic and cognitive tasks on spatial Frames of Reference (FoRs) in Traditional Negev Arabic (TNA) show that TNA is a referentially promiscuous language, using Intrinsic, Relative and Absolute FoRs. FoRs are selected in context according to culture-specific features of the ground (G). TNA speakers exclusively use the Absolute FoR in cognitive tasks, similarly to Mesoamerican languages (Bohnemeyer et al. in Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Austin, 2014). Absolute FoR in TNA is anchored on the four cardinal directions. Nevertheless, in TNA and in other varieties of Nomadic Arabic, geocentric sub-types of the Absolute FoR are also observable. Indeed, as in other Absolute-framing systems worldwide, different anchoring strategies (geocentric and astronomic) tend to coexist. I define their coexistence "Absolute Referential Modularity" (ARM). ARM appears in TNA in cognitive referential tasks and in some lexical items, not in linguistic tasks (as elaborated by Levinson et al. in Space stimuli kit 1.2: November 1992. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, pp 7-14, 1992). Cardinal directions across Nomadic Arabic varieties show great cultural salience. They are associated with concrete geographical elements and encode topological relations: east-west axis encodes the mountain-sea opposition, beside many symbolic meanings, and encodes the oppositions Up/Down and Inside (familiar)/Outside (foreign). The detection of cognitive and linguistic Absolute referential practices-characterized by Modularity-and the cultural salience of cardinal directions within the whole Nomadic Arabic linguistic group, support the bias for Absolute cognition in promiscuous systems and its antecedence with respect to later linguistic referential strategies (Bohnemeyer et al. 2014). TNA linguistic promiscuity represents an innovation with respect to the cognitive concepts and demonstrates that language first generates semantic structures, which may later influence cognitive representations. Nevertheless, in TNA the independence of linguistic and cognitive spatial representations is hard to deny.

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Written and oral aspects of an early Wahhābī epistle

Cook

2015

Bull. Sch. Orient. Afr. stud.

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Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0041977X14001098How to cite this article : Michael Cook (2015). Written and oral aspects of an early Wahhābī epistle. AbstractEpistles of Muḥ ammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb, the founder of the Wahhābī movement in eighteenth-century Najd, are preserved in profusion in Wahhābī sources. One of them is a short epistle, clearly intended for a lay audience, that sets out basic Wahhābī dogma in terms of four principles (qawāʿid). This epistle is preserved by Wahhābī sources in several different versions; none of them are dated, making it hard to establish how the text evolved over time. The present study is based on two dated external witnesses to the text of the epistle. One is taken from an unpublished Baṣ ran refutation of 1745, and is translated here. The other is found in a Yemeni chronicle under the events of the year 1212/1797f. Thanks to these two fixed points, it is possible to construct a plausible account of the evolution of the text over the intervening decades. From this it is clear that while written transmission played a significant part in the evolution of the text, some of the more dramatic changes are the result of oral intervention. Moreover the role of orality is confirmed by evidence suggesting the extensive use of the epistle in oral settings, an illustration of the strong concern of Ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb to spread his message among the laity.

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Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia, Volume 1 Poetry of ad-Dindan

Cited by 13 publications

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Rhyme and Rhyming in Verbal Art, Language, and Song

Rhyme and Rhyming in Verbal Art, Language, and Song

Spatial Frames of Reference in Traditional Negev Arabic: Language-to-Cognition Correlation

Written and oral aspects of an early Wahhābī epistle

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