
Mujùn: Libertinism in Medieval Muslim Society and Literature
Author: Zoltan Szombathy
Year: 2013
ISBN: 9780906094617
Language: English
Hardback, 256p, H240 x W170 (mm)
UK PRICE
£45.00
US PRICE
$80.00
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. NORMS AND VALUES IN MEDIAEVAL MUSLIM SOCIETY
1. Ideals and Actual Behaviour
2. Some Enduring Values in Mediaeval Muslim Society
3. A Preliminary Definition of Mujūn
2. THE MOTIFS OF MUJŪN : RELIGION
1. An Omnipresent Religious Culture
2. Quran and ÍadÐths
3. The Stuff of a Sound Education: Religious Disciplines,Theology, and Islamic History
4. The Religious Obligations
5. Images of Afterlife
6. Hyperboles in Praise Poetry
7. Genuine Mujūn: A Provisional Summary
3. THE MOTIFS OF MUJŪN : DECENCY AND PROPRIETY
1. Breaches of the Norms of Proper Conduct
2. Images of Sexuality
3. Stylistic Features: Punning, Double Entendre, Obscenity, and Parody
4. THE RECEPTION OF MUJŪN
1. The Reception of Mujūn
2. Sanctions and Rewards
3. Regional Differences in the Reception of Mujūn
5. MUJŪN, VALUES AND NORMS
1. Mujūn vis-à-vis Dominant Values
2. The Sociology of Mujūn
Afterword: On Defining Mujūn
Sources
Index
This book is about an aspect of medieval Arabic culture and literature known in Arabic as mujùn (roughly ‘libertinism, licentiousness, frivolity, indecency, profligacy, shamelessness, impertinence’, etc.), a concept that students of mediaeval Arabic texts may find rather hard to define but which is a recurrent term and a widespread phenomenon in medieval Arabic literature, and probably common in real life. The social implications and the background of mujùn are focused on in an attempt to learn what the popularity of mujùn during a specific period of the medieval Middle East can tell us about the society and the culture that produced such works. It is a study of the society in which such literature flourished, of the values and norms of that society, and of the májin (the man who does or writes mujùn) rather than of mujùn in itself. The author uses many excepts from primary source texts to explore the nature, concepts and content of mujùn, including its vernacular language, religious irreverence and not infrequent indecency of subject matter, within its socio-religious context. It provides a critical inventory of the varied motifs of mujùn in literature so as to define this elusive term by way of an accumulation of concrete examples.
More Poetry & Literature
Chahar Maqalah (The Four Discourses) of Nidhámí al-Arúdi al-Samarqandí
Edward G. Browne
The Makarim al-Akhlaq
T. Gandjei
Meşāʽir üş-şuʽarā or Tezkere of ʽĀşık Çelebi
ʽĀşık Çelebi (ed. G. M. Meredith-Owens)
Kitab al-Tashbihat of Ibn Abi ‘Aun: The Book of Similes
M. ‘Abdul Muid Khan
Identification and Identity in Classical Arab Poetry
M. C. Lyons
The Diwans of ‘Abid ibn al-Abras of Asad and ‘Amir ibn at-Tufail of ‘Amir ibn Sa’sa’ah
Charles Lyall
Uddat al-Jalis of Ibn Bishri: An Anthology of Andalusian Arabic Muwashshat
Alan Jones
Sanglax: A Persian Guide to the Turkish Language
Gerard Clauson
Islamic Reflections, Arabic Musings: Studies in Honour of Alan Jones
Robert G. Hoyland; Philip F. Kennedy
Takhyil: The Imaginary in Classical Arabic Poetics
G. J. Van Gelder; M. Hammond
The Mathnawí of Jaláluʾddín Rúmí: Volume 1, Persian Text
Reynold A. Nicholson
The Mathnawí of Jaláluʾddín Rúmí: Volume 2, English Text
Reynold A. Nicholson
The Mathnawí of Jaláluʾddín Rúmí: Volume 3, Persian Text
Reynold A. Nicholson
The Mathnawí of Jaláluʾddín Rúmí: Volume 4, English Text
Reynold A. Nicholson
The Mathnawí of Jaláluʾddín Rúmí: Volume 5, Persian Text
Reynold A. Nicholson
The Mathnawí of Jaláluʾddín Rúmí: Volume 6, English Text
Reynold A. Nicholson
The Mathnawí of Jaláluʾddín Rúmí: vols 7 and 8; Commentary
Reynold A. Nicholson
The Mathnawí of Jaláluʾddín Rúmí: vols 1, 3, 5; Persian Text
Reynold A. Nicholson
The Mathnawí of Jaláluʾddín Rúmí: vols 2, 4, 6, English Translation
Reynold A. Nicholson
Three Shadow Plays by Muhammad Ibn Daniyal
Paul Kahle
The Vagaries of the Qasidah
J. E. Montgomery
The Rude, the Bad and the Bawdy
Adam Talib; Marlé Hammond; Arie Schippers
The Jaysh al-tawshīḥ of Lisān al-Dīn ibn al-Khaṭīb
Alan Jones (editor)
A History of Ottoman Poetry Volume I: 1300 – 1450
E J W Gibb
A History of Ottoman Poetry Volume II: 1450 – 1520
E J W Gibb
A History of Ottoman Poetry Volume III: 1520 – 1600
E J W Gibb
A History of Ottoman Poetry Volume IV: 1700 – 1850
E J W Gibb
A History of Ottoman Poetry Volume V: Later 19th Century
E J W Gibb
A History of Ottoman Poetry Volume VI: Turkish Texts
E J W Gibb
A History of Ottoman Poetry: The Complete Set
E J W Gibb