Throwing Down the Verbal Gauntlet, The Arabic Invective of Jarīr and al-Farazdaq

Cory Jorgensen, Ph.D. (2012), University of Texas at Austin, is Assistant Professor of Arabic at George Washington University. He has published on classical Arabic literature and Arabic pedagogy, including, “Jarīr and al-Farazdaq’s Naqāʾiḍ Performance,” Journal of Arabic Literature 54 (2023).

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 Naqāʾiḍ and “The Naqāʾiḍ”2 Performance1 The Performance: Jarīr, al-Farazdaq, and the Naqāʾiḍ1 Performance Aspects of the Naqāʾiḍ2 Naqāʾiḍ Passages2 The Stage: Mirbad Market1 Introduction2 Style and Content of the Naqāʾiḍ3 “Emergence” of Social Structure4 Conclusion3 The Process: Jarīr and al-Farazdaq’s “Collusion”1 Introduction2 Stock Devices3 Conclusion4 The Goal: Winning Over the Audience1 Introduction2 Managing Poetic Image3 Gaining Poetic Prestige4 ConclusionAppendix1: Jarīr and al-Farazdaq’s Naqāʾiḍ CorpusAppendix2: Jarīr and al-Farazdaq’s Qaṣīda StructureAppendix3: Quoted PassagesAppendix4: Naqāʾiḍ PoemsBibliographyIndex