Love, madness, and poetry : an interpretation of the Maǧnūn legend / by Asʿad E. Khairallah. Wiesbaden : Steiner [in Komm.] ; Beirut : Orient-Inst. der Dt. Morgenländischen Ges., 1980
Content
Front cover
Title page
Dedication
Preface
Table Of Contents
Introduction
Chapter One Madness Or Poetic Vision
Chapter Two The Cultural Background And The Early Versions Of The Maǧnūn Legend
I. Oral Tradition
31 II. The Role Of The Šā'ir In The Heroic Age
37 III. Islam And The Poet
43 IV. Taʾwīl And Ṣūfism
49 V. The Early Versions Of The Legend
Chapter Three Wālibī's Dīwān Of Maǧnūn
I. Wālibī And His Qays Ibn al-Mulawwaḥ al-Maǧnūn wa-dīwānuh
62 II. The Maǧnūn Archetype
94 III. The Unity And The Significance Of The Archetype
Chapter Four Ğāmī
Concluding Remarks
Appendix Al-Maǧnūn
A Selected Bibliography
Index
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