It’s All Just Poetry: Writing ʿUmar ibn Abī Rabīʿah’s Life
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Abstract The relationship between poetry and the poet’s life is complex, reading a poem for biographical material can become problematic exercise that constrains poem’s interpretative possibilities. When writing about ʿUmar ibn Abī Rabīʿah (d. 93AH/712AD or 103/721), biographers historians have shown marked ambivalence in this regard. In early anecdotal narratives his romantic adventures, events appear to derive their source from episodes found poetry, whereas later biographies of poet, poems tend be understood as depicting emotional symbolic truths, even if described did not actually happen. either method ʿUmar’s life, biographer finds story persona filled with contradictions are difficult resolve. embedding into anecdotes narrate (in form truths) resembles tafsīr Qur’an through Prophetic sīrah , which Qur’anic verses explained cementing text’s open-ended hermeneutic possibilities fixed contexts. This article examines textual practice evolving different argues points way presupposes measure extra-textual reality text, where such presupposition constructs an impossible narrative replete contradictions.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Arabic Literature
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1570-064X', '0085-2376']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/1570064x-12341450