رمز الخمر ﻓﻲ الشعر العرﺑﻲ القديم / The Symbol of Wine in Classical Arabic Poetry
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ALIF
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Document Type
Research Article
Publication Title
Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics
Publication Date
1985
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https://www.doi.org/10.2307/521759
Abstract
[Wine was a recurrent motif in pre-Islamic and post - Islamic Arabic Poetry. The poetic portrayal of wine, with its suggestive connotations and explicit associations, made it a convenient vehicle and an appropriate symbol for mystics. Through a close reading of relevant verses, the author of the article shows how wine, wine drinkers and wine drinking evoked metonymically (by association) and metaphorically (by analogy) fundamental ambivalences of mysticism, such as time/timelessness, life/death, intoxication/wakefulness; as well as mystic practices: unconventional assertions and brotherhoods (of drinkers). Furthermore, classical Arabic poetry describing wine employed ritual language including "circumambulation", "sacrifice" and "sacred", which prepared wine drinking for its allegorical use later.]
First Page
73
Last Page
98
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APA Citation
Birairi, M. A.
(1985). رمز الخمر ﻓﻲ الشعر العرﺑﻲ القديم / The Symbol of Wine in Classical Arabic Poetry. Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, 73–98.
https://www.doi.org/10.2307/521759
https://fount.aucegypt.edu/faculty_journal_articles/2881
MLA Citation
Birairi, Muhammad Ahmad
"رمز الخمر ﻓﻲ الشعر العرﺑﻲ القديم / The Symbol of Wine in Classical Arabic Poetry." Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, no. 5, 1985, pp. 73–98.
https://fount.aucegypt.edu/faculty_journal_articles/2881