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<i><span style="font-size:17.5pt;color:black">Sent on behalf of Kevin Blankenship<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<span style="font-size:17.5pt;color:black">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:17.5pt;color:black">I'm happy to share my new article for<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2019.1574519">Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean</a>. 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:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:17.5pt;color:black">The blind poet and iconoclast Abu al-`Ala' al-Ma`arri (d. 1058) is one of the mos<span class="textexposedshow">t 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</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="textexposedshow">overall reputation. The article concludes with a discussion about his
importance to Arabic literary production in the Islamic west.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">David Wacks <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Head and Professor of Spanish<br>
Dept of Romance Languages<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">University of Oregon<br>
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