[Andalusi Studies] [article] Reception of al-Ma'arri in Iberia and Maghreb

[David Wacks]

Sent on behalf of Kevin Blankenship

Dear colleagues,

I'm happy to share my new article for Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean<https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2019.1574519>. It surveys how the works of al-Ma`arri, a poet from Aleppo, Syria, were received and imitated in medieval Muslim Iberia and North Africa. Enjoy and thank you for reading! Here's a gloss for the curious:

The blind poet and iconoclast Abu al-`Ala' al-Ma`arri (d. 1058) is one of the most important figures in classical Arabic literature. He had an especially strong following in the Islamic west (Iberia and North Africa). But despite that following, and despite studies on the western response to other eastern Arabic poets, al-Ma`arri's legacy has thus far received inadequate attention in scholarship, a fact that obscures a major aspect of his reception. This article helps fill this knowledge gap by exploring al-Ma`arri's works that were popular in Iberia and North Africa, as well as responses to those works and the readers who did the responding. The results show rupture in some areas, as in the particular works singled out by Andalusi and Maghribi readers, and continuity in others, as in al-Ma`arri's overall reputation. The article concludes with a discussion about his importance to Arabic literary production in the Islamic west.


David Wacks
Head and Professor of Spanish
Dept of Romance Languages
University of Oregon
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