Ali, Samer M. <br/><br/>
Arabic literary salons in the Islamic Middle Ages :  poetry, public performance, and the presentation of the past / 
Samer M. Ali. 
 - Notre Dame, Ind. :  University of Notre Dame Press,  c2010. 
 - xi, 294 p. ;  23 cm. 
 - Poetics of orality and literacy .
 - Poetics of orality and literacy. .
<br/><br/> Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Indiana University. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction -- Literary salons : outlines of a topic. Literary salons : from ancient symposion to Arabic mujåalasat -- Adab principles of artistic speech in assembly -- Poetry performance and the reinterpreting of tradition -- The mujåalasat as forum for reception. The poetics of sin and redemption : performing value and canonicity -- Al-Buòhturåi's åiwåan kisråa ode: canonic value and folk literacy in the mujåalasat -- Singing Samarra (861-956) : poetry, reception, and the reproduction of literary value in historical narrative -- Conclusion. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780268020323 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0268020329 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2010037737 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Arabic poetry--History and criticism.--750-1258<br/>Salons--Islamic Empire.<br/>Oral tradition--Islamic Empire.<br/>Poesía árabe--Historia y crítica.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Islamic Empire--Intellectual life.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PJ 7553  / A398a 2010 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>892.7/13409