RSS 1.0Oral tradition, volume 04, number 1-2 (January 1989) - Arabic Oral Traditions
Table of Contents
- Cover
- Front Matter
- Editor's Column
- About the Authors (Back Matter)
- Articles
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Qur'ān Recitation: A Tradition of Oral Performance and Transmission
by Frederick M. Denny -
Oral Traditions of the Prophet Muhammad: A Formulaic Approach
by R. Marston Speight -
Which Came First, the Zajal or the Muwaššḥa?
Some Evidence for the Oral Origins of Hispano-Arabic Strophic Poetry
by James T. Monroe -
From History to Fiction: The Tale Told by the King's Steward in the Thousand and One Nights
by Muhsin Mahdi -
Sīrāt Banī Hilāl: Introduction and Notes to an Arab Oral Epic Tradition
by Dwight F. Reynolds -
Epic Splitting: An Arab Folk Gloss on the Meaning of the Hero Pattern
by Henry Massie, Bridget Connelly -
Arabic Folk Epic and the Western Chanson de Geste
by H.T. Norris -
"Tonight My Gun is Loaded": Poetic Dueling in Arabia
by Saad A. Sowayan -
Sung Poetry in the Oral Tradition of the Gulf Region and the Arabian Peninsula
by Simon Jargy -
The Development of Lebanese Zajal: Genre, Meter, and Verbal Duel
by Adnan Haydar -
Palestinian Improvised-Sung Poetry: The Genres of Hidā and Qarrādī Performance and Transmission
by Dirghām H. Sbait -
Banī Halba Classification of Poetic Genres
by Teirab AshShareef -
Oral Transmission in Arabic Music, Past and Present
by George D. Sawa -
Review
by Dwight F. Reynolds
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About the authors (Oral Tradition, 4/1-2, 1989)
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Banī Halba Classification of poetic genres Teirab AshShareef
(1989)The Banī Halba are an Arabic-speaking ethnic group who live in the Southern part of the Darfur Region in the Sudan. They are one of the Baggāra (cattle-rearing) ethnic groups who inhabit a curve-like belt in the Southern ... -
Qur’ān recitation : a tradition of oral performance and transmission
(1989)Oral performance by means of recitation of the Qur'?n is at the center of Islamic corporate and individual piety. The Qur'?n is recited during the daily ?al?t prayer services; nightly during the Ramadan fasting month; in ... -
Which came first, the Zajal or the Muwaššaḥa? Some evidence for the oral origins of Hispano-Arabic Strophic poetry
(1989)Up to this point, I have summarized some theoretical arguments, derived from certain structural features of the texts at hand, to suggest why the zajal might antedate the muwaššaḥa, from which the latter could be derived. ... -
Sīrat Banī Hilāl : introduction and notes to an Arab oral epic tradition
(1989)This poetic tradition which Egypt’s preeminent literary scholar, Ṭaha Hussein, recalls at the outset of his autobiography is one familiar through much of the Arab world—the sīra of the Banī Hilāl Bedouin tribe which ... -
Palestinian improvised-sung poetry : the genres of Ḥidā and Qarrādī : performance and transmission
(1989)The improvised-sung poetry of the Palestinians is a living tradition of oral poetry, extemporized impromptu in the colloquial Arabic of the Palestinians. It is sung by professional native Palestinian poets for their ... -
Review
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Sung Poetry in the Oral Tradition of the Gulf Region and the Arabian Peninsula
(1989-01)"As far back as we can go in the past history of the Arabs and Arabia, we find poetry present as a huge memorial to their real and imaginary heroic exploits, as a witness to their way of life and feelings, and most of all ... -
Epic Splitting: An Arab Folk Gloss on the Meaning of the Hero Pattern
(1989-01)"Epic narrative typically spells out departures and arrivals very clearly (see Bowra 1952:179 ff). The Arabic migration epic Sīrat Banī Hilāl, in its many different cultural transformations and retellings, has a structure ... -
Arabic Folk Epic and Western Chanson de Geste
(1989-01)In the year 1892, Lady Anne Blunt published her translation of one portion of the Arabic popular romance, the S?rat Ban? Hil?. She called it The Celebrated Romance of the Stealing of the Mare. Lady Blunt, and her husband, ... -
Front matter (Oral Tradition, 4/1-2, 1989)
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"Tonight My Gun Is Loaded": Poetic Dueling In Arabia
(1989-01)Although folk traditions are rapidly disappearing in Arabia as it is suddenly transformed from an illiterate society to a modern state, poetic dueling remains one of the most popular and spectacular folk performances. Oral ... -
Back matter (Oral Tradition, 4/1-2, 1989)
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Cover (Oral Tradition, 4/1-2, 1989)
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