Islam and New Directions in World Literature

Sarah Bin Tyeer is Assistant Professor in the Department of Middle East, South Asian and Africa Studies at Columbia University. She is the author of The Qur’an and the Aesthetics of Pre-modern Arabic Prose (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). Claire Gallien is Senior Lecturer in English at University Paul Valéry-Montpellier III. She is She is author of L'orient anglais (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment/Liverpool UP, 2011) and co-editor (with Ladan Niayesh) of Eastern Resonances in Early Modern England: Receptions and Transformations from the Renaissance to the Romantic Period (New York: Palgrave, 2019). Jeffrey Einboden (Ph.D, Cambridge) is Associate Professor of American Literature at Northern Illinois University. His research has appeared in Translation and Literature, Milton Quarterly, Middle Eastern Literatures, Journal of Qur’anic Studies, and the co-translated The Tangled Braid: Ninety-Nine Poems by Hafiz of Shiraz (Fons Vitae, 2009). Einboden’s ‘The Genesis of Weltliteratur’ (Literature and Theology, 2005) was named one of the 100 seminal articles published by Oxford University Press during the past century.

• Foreword - Jeffrey Einboden (Northern Illinois University)Notes on ContributorsAcknowledgments1. The World Imaginaires of Islam: Islam and New Directions in World Literature - Sarah R. Bin Tyeer (Columbia University) & Claire Gallien (Université Paul Valéry - Montpellier 3) Tropes of Orientalism2. Los moros de la hueste: Recovering the Islamicate in the Goths’ Lament - Gregory Hutcheson (University of Louisville)3. Just One Word - Gil Anidjar (Columbia University)Sensory Fluctuations: Aural, Oral, Visual, and Written4. Poems in Praise of the Prophet (madīḥ) as a Citizen of the Literary World - Walid Ghali (Aga Khan University)5. The Place and Function of Imagination in Fulani Mystical Poetry (Massina, Mali) - Christiane Seydou (CNRS-Paris)6. Vanishing Art, Genre-making: The Uyghur Storytelling Tradition and its Heritagization - Musapir Circulation,Translation, Rereading7. Friedrich Rückert’s Understanding of Islam and Poetic Translation of the Qur’ân - Georges Tamer (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg) and Cüneyd Yıldırım (Münster Universität)8. The "Islamic" Arabian Nights in World Imaginaries - Muhsin al-Musawi (Columbia University)9. Where is World Literature? - Hamid Dabashi (Columbia University) Secular/Non-Secular 10. Praising the Prophet Muhammad in Chinese. A New translation and Analysis of Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang’s Ode to the Prophet - Haiyun Ma (Frostburg State University) and Brendan Newlon (Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, NC) 11. A Fine Romance: Translating the Qissah as World Romance - Pasha M. Khan (McGill University)12. Indonesia’s "Sastra Profetik" As Decolonial Literary Theory - Nazry Bahrawi (University of Washington)

An Islamicate turn in world literature? Introduced in the 1970s, Islamicate never seemed likely as a descriptor supplanting Muslim and Islamic, but its ascent now seems imminent due to this sparkling collection of essays, from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean, with fresh insight and apt analysis in every chapter.