Papers 7 by Boutheina Khaldi
Betwixt and Between: The Graffiti Found in Adab al- Ġurabāʾ by al-Iṣfahānī , 2024
Abū l-Faraj al-Iṣfahānī's (d. ca. 974 AD) Kitāb adab al-ghurabāʾ (The Book of Strangers) is a col... more Abū l-Faraj al-Iṣfahānī's (d. ca. 974 AD) Kitāb adab al-ghurabāʾ (The Book of Strangers) is a collection of reports inscribed, engraved, and scratched by liminal figures, i.e. strangers, wayfarers, and exiles on walls, doors, and canvases. The significance of this book, this article argues, lies not in the topic of estrangement en soi but in the prosimetrum inscribed on surfaces, a phenomenon given little attention by literary scholars. The article sets out to explore the different shades of meaning of the term "gharīb". It argues that the "gharīb" in al-Iṣfahānī's book not only refers to strangers and their estrangement, but also to the gharīb/adb (novel, foreign) effect they strive to create in their textual traces. This gharīb/adb effect produced by these ghurabāʾ is what constitutes the book's uniqueness.
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Article, Dec 6, 2023
In 1972, the Egyptian literary scholar and Islamic thinker, ʿᾹʾisha ʿAbd al-Raḥmān (known by the ... more In 1972, the Egyptian literary scholar and Islamic thinker, ʿᾹʾisha ʿAbd al-Raḥmān (known by the epithet Bint al-Shāṭiʾ), published a highly informative account of her pilgrimage journeys, ʿUmra and Ḥajj, respectively, under the title, Arḍ al-muʿjizāt: riḥla fī jazīrat al-ʿArab (Land of Miracles: Journey in the Arabian Peninsula, 1951 and 1972). The article argues that Bint al-Shāṭiʾ's pilgrimage account should be read in light of the political and economic changes that the Arab and Islamic world was undergoing at that time. Western Imperialism, and the 1948 Arab-Israeli war and its aftermath, gave more impetus to Islamic revivalism, and Bint al-Shāṭiʾ was one of its proponents. Her oeuvre on Islam and anti-Zionism attests to her revivalist project. As a Salafist thinker well versed in history, Bint al-Shāṭiʾ advocates a return to the original Islam. Only through that return to the Qur'ān and Sunna and strong devotion to the umma can Muslims regain their strength and defeat the State of Israel. Bint al-Shāṭiʾ uses the communal aspect of pilgrimage to readdress the concept of Jihᾱd that should not only be confined to Ḥajj and ʿUmra, but equally performed against social and political injustices, such as the marginalization of women and the Israeli aggression against Palestinians. The article thus contends that Bint al-Shāṭiʾ's pilgrimage narrative is a key component of her commitment literature.
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Elegy, 2023
An elegy is a poem composed or written in response to the death or loss of someone or something. ... more An elegy is a poem composed or written in response to the death or loss of someone or something. It has a higher degree of formal unity. While it can be structurally complex, it does not suffer from disruption into unrelated topical sections. The elegist begins by lamenting the dead, then praising his attributes and accomplishments and ends with solace and consolation. In Pre-Islamic period, rithᾱ’ was composed only for male warriors who lost their lives defending their tribes. Male and female kin alike took part in the commemoration of the heroic deeds of the dead. Elegies voiced by women were meant to incite menfolk to blood vengeance. From Islamic times onward, elegists refrained from calling for vengeance as Islam brought with it a notion of resurrection to an afterlife. Elegies extended to sons, mothers, wives, and sisters as well as animals. With the decline of the Arab-Islamic rule, city-elegies were composed to describe the agony of poets whose cities underwent destruction and devastation. The article explores the main characteristics of elegy in each period and adduces examples accordingly.
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Al-Markaz: Majallat al-Dirasat al-'Arabiyyah, 2022
Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣfahānī’s (d. 356/967) Adab al-ghurabāʾ, the concept of exile emerges as a human... more Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣfahānī’s (d. 356/967) Adab al-ghurabāʾ, the concept of exile emerges as a human phenomenon portrayed in different colors and shapes, shown in writing as a means of declaring absence and documenting presence. This book includes anecdotes, stories, and short poems that had been engraved on walls and doors, leaving behind a mark for travelers and a trail for wanderers. The text is based on a triad of resources: the personal experience, the auditory experience and the visual experience, all of which stem from the bitter feeling of exile, the harshness of homelessness, and forced displacement. Several reasons prompted the nomads to write down on the walls since there was no other way to escape their alienation, anguish and complaints except through writing.
This study primarily focuses on the writing on walls (graffiti) in Adab al-ghurabāʾ. This topic was based not only on its novelty and humor, but also on the paucity of prior studies that have been conducted on the subject. The studies and research which focus on the writings and graffiti inscribed on walls in general, and the ones which focus on the writing on walls in Arab culture in particular, were relatively scarce compared to the
modern era wherein scholars and researchers have displayed an increased interest in this topic. This research deals with the different manifestations of the concept of exile in outer space, and searches through traces/graffiti as they reveal a polyphonic, polysemic
and multilayered text giving way for marginalized and alienated people to communicate, find their voices and make their presence heard.
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Global Identities in Transit: The Ethics and Politics of Representation in World Literatures and Cultures, 2022
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Arabic Culture as a Defensive Strategy: Tunisian Education as an Example, 2020
Since independence, the educational system in the Arab world in general, and Tunisia in particula... more Since independence, the educational system in the Arab world in general, and Tunisia in particular, has continued to alienate itself from the mainstream society. Deeply rooted in a colonial past, education has failed to effect social, economic, and political change. This paper focuses on the status of education in Post-independent Tunisia. Using Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of Cultural Reproduction, and Antonio Gramsci’s theory of Cultural Hegemony, it sets out to argue that educational institutions are sites of power play.
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Nāzik al-Malāʾikah and Edgar Allan Poe: Their Poetry and Related Poetics, 2020
This study argues that Nāzik al-Malāʾikah's poetics-as indicated in her "Introduction" to her col... more This study argues that Nāzik al-Malāʾikah's poetics-as indicated in her "Introduction" to her collection Shaẓāyā wa-ramād and her book Qaḍāyā al-shiʿr al-muʿāṣir-is in conversation with the famous American poet, critic, and short story writer Edgar Allan Poe's poetics. This affinity has not been properly noted by critics, as their discussions have been limited to issues of form, content, or borrowings from Poe's poems. This article argues that al-Malāʾikah's elaborations on Poe are more profound than hitherto assumed since they articulate a different kind of formal poetics altogether. The chief characteristics of this poetics can be identified as sound/rhythm, concision, refrain (or repetition, with variation). While these innovative instances are foundational in her literary criticism, her poetry also conveys other venues of indebtedness and conversation. Keywords Nāzik al-Malāʾikah-Edgar Allan Poe-Modernism-Free Verse-versification-formalism … The greatest debts are not always the most evident T.S. Eliot ∵
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تراث العرب المعرفي حتى نهاية الخلافة العباسية, 2010
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الوافي في تراث العرب الثقافي: الأندلس والمشرق منذ سقوط الخلافة العباسية, 2010
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الأدب العربي الحديث, 2010
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المضمر في الترسل النسوي العربي, 2015
الغياب هو الصفة الأكيدة للمضمر في الترسل النسوي. إنه وببساطة غير مدروس في الثقافة العربية المعاص... more الغياب هو الصفة الأكيدة للمضمر في الترسل النسوي. إنه وببساطة غير مدروس في الثقافة العربية المعاصرة. تتناوله المؤلفة، لا بصفته مدونة منشئ أو سجلاً موضوعاتياً، وإنما حسب منهجية جديدة
تستعين بأساليب النقد الحديث واللسانيات استعانةً مدروسةً لتُجْريَ تآلفاً تقنياً صارماً
.بين الموروث البلاغي العربي من جانب ومدارس ما بعد الحداثة الشائعة الآن في الثقافات الأجنبية من
جانب آخر
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Egypt Awakening in the Early Twentieth Century: Mayy Ziyadah's Intellectual Circles, 2012
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Journal of Islamic thought and civilization, Dec 5, 2023
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Papers 7 by Boutheina Khaldi
This study primarily focuses on the writing on walls (graffiti) in Adab al-ghurabāʾ. This topic was based not only on its novelty and humor, but also on the paucity of prior studies that have been conducted on the subject. The studies and research which focus on the writings and graffiti inscribed on walls in general, and the ones which focus on the writing on walls in Arab culture in particular, were relatively scarce compared to the
modern era wherein scholars and researchers have displayed an increased interest in this topic. This research deals with the different manifestations of the concept of exile in outer space, and searches through traces/graffiti as they reveal a polyphonic, polysemic
and multilayered text giving way for marginalized and alienated people to communicate, find their voices and make their presence heard.
Books 5 by Boutheina Khaldi
تستعين بأساليب النقد الحديث واللسانيات استعانةً مدروسةً لتُجْريَ تآلفاً تقنياً صارماً
.بين الموروث البلاغي العربي من جانب ومدارس ما بعد الحداثة الشائعة الآن في الثقافات الأجنبية من
جانب آخر
Papers by Boutheina Khaldi
This study primarily focuses on the writing on walls (graffiti) in Adab al-ghurabāʾ. This topic was based not only on its novelty and humor, but also on the paucity of prior studies that have been conducted on the subject. The studies and research which focus on the writings and graffiti inscribed on walls in general, and the ones which focus on the writing on walls in Arab culture in particular, were relatively scarce compared to the
modern era wherein scholars and researchers have displayed an increased interest in this topic. This research deals with the different manifestations of the concept of exile in outer space, and searches through traces/graffiti as they reveal a polyphonic, polysemic
and multilayered text giving way for marginalized and alienated people to communicate, find their voices and make their presence heard.
تستعين بأساليب النقد الحديث واللسانيات استعانةً مدروسةً لتُجْريَ تآلفاً تقنياً صارماً
.بين الموروث البلاغي العربي من جانب ومدارس ما بعد الحداثة الشائعة الآن في الثقافات الأجنبية من
جانب آخر
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Islamic History and Civilization, Volume: 180
Editors: Nadia Maria El Cheikh and Bilal Orfali
Literary anthology is a general category of adab that encompasses a range of compilations which has enjoyed tremendous popularity in Arabic literature, probably like no other literature of the world. The aim of this volume is to raise and discuss questions about the different approaches to the study of pre-modern Arabic anthologies from the perspectives of philology, religion, history, geography, and literature.
Contributors: Lyall Armstrong, Carl Davila, Matthew L. Keegan, Boutheina Khaldi, Enass Khansa, Jeremy Kurzyniec, David Larsen, Nathaniel A. Miller, Suleiman A. Mourad, Hans-Peter Pökel, Isabel Toral