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“Wearing the Belt of Oppression: Khāqānī’s Christian Qaṣīda and the Prison Poetry of Medieval Shirvān,” Journal of Persianate Studies (2016)
- Author(s):
- Rebecca Ruth Gould (see profile)
- Date:
- 2019
- Group(s):
- Islamicate Studies, Late Medieval History, Medieval Studies, Persian and Persianate Studies
- Subject(s):
- Iranians, Persian literature, Poetry, Poetry--Authorship, Aesthetics, Sovereignty
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Racism, Kingship, Prison, critical aesthetics, Persian, Poetry writing
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/353z-8315
- Abstract:
- This article examines how the Persian prison poem (habsiyāt) incorporated Islamic legal norms for governing non-Muslim peoples into its poetics. By tracing how Khāqāni of Shirvān (d. 1199) brought the aesthetics of incarceration to bear on Islamic legal regulations pertaining to non-Muslim communities (ahl al-zemma), I offer a new perspective on the politics of poetry in Persian culture. As I delineate the intertextual references to legal stipulations (shorut) pertaining to non-Muslims that suffuse Khāqāni’s Christian qasida, I demonstrate how the Persian poetics of incarceration coalesced into a powerful internal critique of Islamic law.
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- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 5 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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