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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Dávila, Carl
• Fakhreddine, Huda J.
• Pinckney Stetkevych, Suzanne

Titel

Poetry, Performance and the Prophet in the Andalusian Music Tradition of Morocco: Wa-matā ilā dhāka al-maqāmi wuṣūlu

Ist Teil von

• The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Poetry, 2024, Vol.1, p.131-152

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• As a performed art, the Andalusian1 nūba tradition of Morocco combines al-madīḥ al-nabawī (praise of the Prophet) with many themes and motifs from Classical Arabic poetry, while juxtaposing strophic poetry with non-strophic verse. It differs thus from the Mantle Ode qaṣīda of Muḥammad al-Būṣīrī. The reframing and recontextualization intrinsic to performance have enabled and lent potency to juxtapositions of meaning, style and form, while subordinating the literary aspect to the oral dimension. Moreover, direct influence from the Sufi-related al-madīḥ wa-al-samāʿ genre has fostered a more esoteric style of Prophet-piety infused with mystical motifs. As a performed art, the Andalusian nuba tradition of Morocco combines al-madih al-nabawi with many themes and motifs from Classical Arabic poetry, while juxtaposing strophic poetry with non-strophic verse. Appropriation of love-poetry conventions for religious purposes has a long history in the Arabic tradition. Court-oriented poets of the early Abbasid period-roughly, the end of the second/eighth through the third/ninth centuries-began to combine amorous motifs from the nasib section of the old Arab qasida with the more chaste love imagery of the so-called Udhri poetry to produce a separate ghazal genre. Structurally, the barwala songs present a wide range of rhyme schemes and bear no poetic meter beyond what is required to fit the cadences of colloquial speech into a musical phrase. Structurally, the barwala songs present a wide range of rhyme schemes and bear no poetic meter beyond what is required to fit the cadences of colloquial speech into a musical phrase.