al-Khansā's poem in -ālahā and its Qur'ānic echoes: The long and the short of it

Jaakko Markus Hämeen-Anttila

doi:10.1017/s1356186318000305

al-Khansā's poem in -ālahā and its Qur'ānic echoes: The long and the short of it

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Abstract

This article studies two questions related to al-Khansa''s mutaqarib poem, rhyming in -alaha: how was it changed through anthologisation and what is its relation to the Qur'an and Surah 99? Whereas the six-verse excerpt in al-Mubarrad's Kamil is full of Qur'anic echoes, the Diwan version of the poem has few such echoes. The analysis, however, opens up a possibility that the Qur'an's first audience may well have recognised in Surah 99 features familiar to them from marthiyas.

Original language	English
Journal	Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society
Volume	29
Issue number	1
Pages (from-to)	1-15
Number of pages	15
ISSN	1356-1863
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/s1356186318000305
Publication status	Published - Jan 2019
Externally published	Yes
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Fields of Science

6122 Literature studies
al-Khansa'
Qur'an and poetry
transmission of early poetry

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10.1017/s1356186318000305

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