Portrait of an eighth-century gentleman : Khālid ibn Ṣafwān in history and literature
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Portrait of an eighth-century gentleman : Khālid ibn Ṣafwān in history and literature
（Handbuch der Orientalistik = Handbook of Oriental studies, section 1 . The Near and Middle East / edited by Maribel Fierro ... [et al.] ; v. 141）
Brill, c2020
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-264) and indexes
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Description
Portrait of an Eighth-Century Gentleman. Khalid ibn S afwan in History and Literature by Jaakko Hameen-Anttila is an in-depth study of the eighth-century Umayyad and early Abbasid orator and courtier Khalid ibn S afwan 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, Hameen-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 Khalid in his various roles and analyse the literary techniques of the stories.
Table of Contents
Preface
PART 1: Study
1 Khalid ibn S afwan as a Historical Character
1.1 Historical Context
1.2 Sources
1.3 Life and Political Importance
1.4 Genealogy and Family
1.5 Khalid's Later Fame
2 Khalid ibn S afwan and Early Arabic Prose
2.1 Linguistic and Literary Context
2.2 Khalid as a Literary Character
2.3 Stories and their Rhetorical Features
2.4 Khalid as Storyteller and Transmitter of Poetry
2.5 Anecdotes as Early 'Abbasid Prose
2.6 Mufakhara and mah asin wa-masawi
2.7 Speeches
2.8 The Literary Khalid: Conclusions
PART 2: Translations
3 Stories from al-Baladhuri, Ansab VII/1: 55-88 (B1-B115)
4 Stories from Other Sources (A1-A108)
4.1 Storyteller and Transmitter of Poetry
4.2 Encounters with Caliphs and Governors
4.3 Mufakharas and mah asin wa-masawi
4.4 Lah h an and Linguistic Authority
4.5 Orator and Wit
4.6 Family
4.7 Miser
4.8 Sayings
4.9 Various Stories
5 Stories Excluded from the Corpus (C1-C3)
Bibliography
Source References to B1-B115
Index of Personal Names
Index of Place Names
Index of Topics
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