Three of the most renowned praise poems to the Prophet, the mantle odes span the arc of Islamic history from Muhammad's lifetime, to the medieval Mamluk period, to the modern colonial era. Over the centuries, they have informed the poetic and religious life of the Arab and Islamic worlds. Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych places her original translations of the poems within the odes' broader cultural context. By highlighting their transformative power as speech acts and their ritual function as gift exchanges, this book not only demonstrates the relevance of these poems to contemporary scholarship but also reveals their power and beauty to the modern reader.

Three masterpieces of Islamic devotional poetry in their cultural contexts

About the Author

Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych is Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is author of The Poetics of Islamic Legitimacy: Myth, Gender, and Ceremony in the Classical Arabic Ode (IUP, 2002).

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[T]he reader can learn much from Stetkevych's study . . . .

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Stetkevych provides an original translation and careful analysis of three landmark poems in Arabic Islamic literature . . . Recommended.

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Book Information
ISBN 9780253222060
Author Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych
Format Paperback
Page Count 336
Imprint Indiana University Press
Publisher Indiana University Press
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 20mm