Portrait of an Eighth-Century Gentleman

Khālid ibn Ṣafwān in History and Literature

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Portrait of an Eighth-Century Gentleman. Khālid ibn Ṣafwān in History and Literature by Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila is an in-depth study of the eighth-century Umayyad and early Abbasid orator and courtier Khālid ibn Ṣafwān and the development of his character in adab literature. The book collects and translates all his sayings and stories about him culled from a wide range of Arabic and Persian texts.In the book, Hämeen-Anttila studies the mechanisms of change in early narratives, showing how Arabic anecdotes developed and were modified by a series of authors during both their oral and literary transmission, changing a historical person into a literary character. Detailed chapters discuss Khālid in his various roles and analyse the literary techniques of the stories.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-02-06
Mått155 x 235 x 15 mm
Vikt489 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor276
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004729599

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PrefacePART 1: Study1 Khālid ibn Ṣafwān as a Historical Character1.1 Historical Context1.2 Sources1.3 Life and Political Importance1.4 Genealogy and Family1.5 Khālid’s Later Fame2 Khālid ibn Ṣafwān and Early Arabic Prose2.1 Linguistic and Literary Context2.2 Khālid as a Literary Character2.3 Stories and their Rhetorical Features2.4 Khālid as Storyteller and Transmitter of Poetry2.5 Anecdotes as Early ʿAbbāsid Prose2.6 Mufākhara and maḥāsin wa-masāwī2.7 Speeches2.8 The Literary Khālid: ConclusionsPART 2: Translations3 Stories from al-Balādhurī, Ansāb VII/1: 55–88 (B1–B115)4 Stories from Other Sources (A1–A108)4.1 Storyteller and Transmitter of Poetry4.2 Encounters with Caliphs and Governors4.3 Mufākharas and maḥāsin wa-masāwī4.4 Laḥḥān and Linguistic Authority4.5 Orator and Wit4.6 Family4.7 Miser4.8 Sayings4.9 Various Stories5 Stories Excluded from the Corpus (C1–C3)BibliographySource References to B1–B115Index of Personal NamesIndex of Place NamesIndex of Topics