[Andalusi Studies] Excellent papers: Beyond Arabic: Multilingual poetics in premodern Islamic:

[Hany Rashwan]

Dear colleagues and friends,

I hope my message finds you and your beloved ones in the best health.

I am writing to update you regarding the above special issue. The special
issue is finally out with page numbers.

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

It contains 11 excellent papers that open the door to fresh perspectives on
multilingualism in the premodern Islamic World(s), a topic that was
overlooked or neglected for a long time for political and cultural reasons.

I must offer 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 volume 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.

Here is the link to its papers, and I am attaching the introduction for
your reference:

- Hany Rashwan's 'introduction: beyond arabic in premodern islamic worlds'

- Federico Salvaggio's 'multilingualism from the perspective of the
medieval islamic vision of language'

- Alaaeldin Mahmoud's 'multilingual poetics in arabic and persian maqāmāt:
between al-taṣannu‘ and sabk'

- Rama Alhabian's 'multilingual worlds in ḥarīrī’s monolingual maqāmāt: a
study of al-maqāma ar-raqṭāʾ (the spotted)'

- Shahrouz Khanjari's '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's 'arabic lore as an inspiration for medieval provençal
jews: the curious case of mishle ha-‘arav'

- Nicola Carpentieri's 'love poetry as social practice: on the function of
medieval sicilian love lyric in arabic and italian'

- Aqsa Ijaz's 'beyond imitation: a case for the hermenutic agency of
persianate literary retellings'

- Berat Açıl's 'portraying multilingualism in ottoman literary culture:
qasidat al-burdah translations in ornamented manuscripts'

- Mahdieh Vali-Zadeh's 'multimedia, agency, and subjectivity: rumi, ‘aṭṭār,
and hegel’s orientalist sublime'

- Ihsan Ul-Ihthisam and Simi Najuma Salim's 'persianate malabar: muḥammad
shāh’s takiyya and the composition of an arabi-malayalam sufi
romance-mathnawī in southern India'



If you want to know more about the image of the special issue cover and
qasidat al-burdah, I recommend the excellent paper by Berat Acil

Thank you all for your encouragement and support—this publication would not
have been possible without this wonderful community. I hope you enjoy
exploring this collection as much as we did bringing it to life!


All my very best wishes

Hany


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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
SOAS, University of London, is a world-leading higher education institution
specializing in the study of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. It has a
unique focus combining both disciplinary and regional expertise with
language scholarship. Founded in 1916, with its first students enrolled in
1917, the School celebrated its Centenary in 2016-17.
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