The poetics of Arabian suqs : a hermeneutic reading of the development of Arabian suqs from the pre-Islamic era to present /: a hermeneutic reading of the development of Arabian suqs from the pre-Islamic era to present. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jasmine Shahin.
• Authors: Shahin, Jasmine
• Contents: List of Illustrations Preface Introduction: A Personal Impression, A Problem, A Method The Sūq: A Personal Impression The Sūq: An Epistemological Problem? Towards a Hermeneutic Understanding of Arabian Space Concluding Notes: Limitations and Delimitations Chapter 1: Arab-ness in between Prejudice and Prehension What is Arabia and Who are the Arabs? Pre-Islamic Arabia and its many Arabs Islamic Arabia: An Expanding Social Geography Post-Islamic Arabia: A Reinvented Identity Concluding Notes: Decolonizing Arabian Studies Chapter 2: The Arabian Sūq in Contemporary Discourse What is a Sūq? The Sūq as a Political Space The Sūq as a Religious Space The Sūq as a Social Space Concluding Notes: The Sūq an Urban Franchise? Chapter 3: Pre-Islamic Arabia in-between fadaā and tareeq The Pre-Islamic Situation: A Historical Overview Pre-Islamic Arabia: An Archaeological Overview Arabia Felix: Saba (4th BC – 275AD) Arabia Petraea: Petra (c. 4th BC – 2ndAD) Arabia Petraea: Hatra, or al-Hadar (c. 2nd BC - 241 AD) Arabia Desertae: Qaryat al-Fau (c. 1st – 4th AD) Arabia Desertae: Medina (c. 6th – 7thAD) Language: Arabic in-between the Desert and the Trade Route The Desert in Pre-Islamic Poetry The Trade Route in Pre-Islamic Poetry Lived Experience: Sūq-ness as ‘being-in-the-world’ Pre-Islamic Sūq-ness, Myth and Rituals Concluding Notes: Pre-Islamic Sūqs in-between fadaā and tareeq Chapter 4: Islamic Arabia in-between tajalli and wahm Historical Context: Arabia of the 7th century Arabic Language and the Islamic Situation Islamic Sūqs: An Urban Overview The Umayyads’ Kairouan, Tunisia (670AD) The Abbasids’ Baghdad, Iraq (762AD) The Fatimids’ Qahira, Egypt (969AD) Language: Poetics of the Islamic City Lived Experience: Islamic Sūqs in-between tajalli and al-wahm The Islamic Sūq as a Sufist Journey The Islamic Sūq as a Political Playground Concluding Notes: The Islamic City in-between Horizons Chapter 5: Post-Islamic Arabia in-between Tradition and Progress Historical Context: Pan-Arabism vs. Pan-Islamism Post-Islamic Urban Developments: Case Studies Baron Empain’s Heliopolis, Cairo King Faisal II’s Plan of Greater Baghdad Al Maktoum’s Dubai The Poetics of Sūq-ness in Post-Islamic Arabia Lived Experience: Post-Islamic Sūq-ness and its Variations Dubai’s Social Perception: A Surveyand Visual Study Sūq Rituals in-between the Festive and the Ordinary Post-Islamic Sūq-ness in-between Tradition and Modernity Concluding Notes: Post-Islamic Sūq-ness and the Predicament of Progress Chapter 6: The Arabian Sūq’s Past, Present and Future The Arabian Space and the Problem of Method The Arabian Sūq and the fadaā/tareeq Duality Poetics, Identity and Nostalgia in Arabian Sūqs The Sūq as a Passageway Bibliography Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 725.21; Bazaars (Markets) -- Islamic countries; Bazaars (Markets) -- Social aspects -- Islamic countries
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000771091; 9781000771053; 9781003289982
• Related ISBNs: 9781032267982
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