[Andalusi Studies] New Special Issue: Beyond Arabic: Multilingual Poetics in Premodern Islamic Worlds

[Hany Rashwan]

Dear friends and colleagues,

I hope this message finds you and your loved ones in good health.

I am excited to announce the upcoming release of a special issue I edited,
titled “Beyond Arabic: Multilingual Poetics in Premodern Islamic Worlds,”
published by Postmedieval journal, through Springer Nature. This issue,
featuring 11 articles, has been a two-year journey and will be available
next week.

I extend my heartfelt thanks to the editors-in-chief of Postmedieval—Shazia
Jagot, Sara Ritchey, Julie Orlemanski, Rebecca De Souza, and Jason
Jacobs—for their invaluable support and insightful reviews of the initial
drafts. Special thanks as well to the managing editor, Beatrice Bottomley.

This issue would not have been possible without the outstanding reviewers,
each of whom provided constructive feedback that significantly elevated the
quality of these papers. My gratitude goes out to Ross Brann, Cameron
Cross, Natalia Chalisova, Ferenc Csirkés, Nino Dolidze, William Granara,
Nile Green, Miranda Hickman, Murat Umut Inan, Selim S. Kuru, Karla
Mallette, David Larsen, Luca Patrizi, Maurice Pomerantz, Omid Safi,
Mohammad Salama, Sunil Sharma, Mahdi Tourage, Torsten Tschacher, and Tyler
Williams.

This volume is dedicated to Rebecca Ruth Gould (SOAS), who has broadened my
perspective on premodern Islamic multilingualism and encouraged me to step
beyond my academic comfort zone.

 Articles and their titles in this special issue:

·         Federico Salvaggio: "Multilingualism from the perspective of the
medieval Islamic vision of language"

·         Alaaeldin Mahmoud: "Multilingual poetics in Arabic and Persian
Maqāmāt: Between al-taṣannu‘ and sabk"

·         Rama Alhabian: "Multilingual worlds in Ḥarīrī’s monolingual
maqāmāt: A study of al-maqāma ar-Raqṭāʾ (the spotted)"

·         Shahrouz Khanjari: "Cases of divergence between Persian and
Arabic poetics: An analysis of the underlying characteristics of
particularly Persian stylistic techniques addressed by Vaṭvāṭ (d.1182)"

·         David Torollo: "Arabic lore as an inspiration for medieval
Provençal Jews: The curious case of Mishle ha-‘arav"

·         Nicola Carpentieri: "Love poetry as social practice: On the
function of medieval Sicilian love lyric in Arabic and Italian"

·         Aqsa Ijaz: "Beyond imitation: A case for the hermeneutic agency
of Persianate literary retellings"

·         Berat Açıl: "Portraying multilingualism in Ottoman literary
culture: Qasidat al-burdah translations in ornamented manuscripts"

·         Mahdieh Vali-Zadeh: "Multimedia, Agency, and Subjectivity: Rumi,
‘Aṭṭār, and Hegel’s Orientalist Sublime"

·         Ihsan Ul-Ihthisam and Simi K. Salim: "Persianate Malabar:
Muhammad Shah’s Takiyya and the Composition of an Awadhi Sufi
Romance-Mathnawī in South India"

I’m including a link to the special issue’s introduction, which explores
Arabocentricism and the teaching Arabic to non-native speakers. Please find
it attached, and here is the link:

Rashwan, H. Editor’s introduction: Beyond Arabic in premodern Islamic
worlds. *Postmedieval* (2024). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41280-024-00339-w

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41280-024-00339-w#citeas

Please don’t hesitate to reach out if you’d like any articles, and I’ll be
glad to share them once they’re published.



Wishing you all the best in health, success, and happiness.

Hany
-- 

Best wishes,

Dr Hany Rashwan

Assistant Professor of Arabic Language and Literature

United Arab Emirates University (UAEU)

Honorary Research Fellow

School of Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music

University of Birmingham (UoB)

https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/HanyRashwan

https://bham.academia.edu/HanyRashwan

PhD in  Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies (CCLPS)

Languages & Cultures Faculty

School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)
University of London
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