02582    a2200433   4500001001100000005001700011008003900028020001800067037003600085040000700121041000800128072001400136072001500150072001300165072001500178072001500193072001500208072001400223072001200237072001300249072001500262072001500277072001300292072001500305072002100320072002100341072002100362072002100383072002100404072002100425072001900446100002500465245008400490250000600574260003200580300001000612520151300622999001302135103208755220250317100352.0250312042021GB                   eng    a9781032087559  bTaylor & FranciscGBP 41.99fBB  a01  aeng7 aJB2thema7 aQRP2thema7 aN2thema7 aNHG2thema7 aGTM2thema7 a1FB2bisac7 a3K2bisac7 aJF2bic7 aHRH2bic7 aHBLC12bic7 aHBJF12bic7 aGTB2bic7 a1FB2bisac7 aHIS0260002bisac7 aHIS0260302bisac7 aLIT0042202bisac7 aREL0370102bisac7 aPOL0380002bisac7 aSOC0530002bisac7 a892.7122bisac1 aRuqayya Yasmine Khan10aBedouin and ‘Abbāsid Cultural IdentitiesbThe Arabic Majnūn Laylā Story  a1  aOxfordbRoutledgec20210630  a244 p  bThis literary-historical book draws out and sheds light upon the mechanisms of "the ideological work" that the Arabic Majnūn Laylā story performed for ‘Abbāsid urbanite, imperial audiences in the wake of the disappearance of the "Bedouin cosmos." The study focuses upon the processes of primitivizing Majnūn in the romance of Majnūn Laylā as part of the paradigm shift that occurred in the ‘Abbāsid empire after the Greco-Arabian intellectual revolution. Moreover, this book demonstrates how gender and sexuality are employed in the processes of primitivizing Majnūn. As markers of "strangeness" and "foreignness" in the ‘Abbāsid interrogations of the multiple categories of ethnicity, culture, identity, religion and language present in their cosmopolitan milieus. Such "cultural work" is performed through the ideological uses of alterity given its mechanisms of distancing (e.g., temporal and spatial) and nearness (e.g., affective). Lastly, the Majnūn Laylā love story demonstrates, in its text and reception, that a Greco-Arabian and Greco-Persian subculture thrived in the centers of ‘Abbāsid Baghdad that molded and shaped the ways in which this love story was compiled, received and performed. Offering a corrective to the prevailing views expressed in Western scholarly writings on the Greco-Arabian encounter, this book is a major contribution to scholars and students interested in Islamic studies, Arabic and comparative literature, Middle East and gender studies.  c240d240