Arabic Literary Salons in the Islamic Middle Ages: Poetry, Public Performance, and the Presentation of the Past

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Index 281 9/11. See September 11, 2001; trauma Abbasid society, 13, 19, 26, 48–49, 82, 127, 167, 169, 174, 186, 195, 212n1; and al-Buḥturī, 123, 181, 187; and the caliphate, 99, 103–4, 155, 175; and courtiers, 229n4; historians of, 36; as ideological successors to Sasanians, 162; and Īwān Kisrā ode, 154; and kings, 157, 235n100; loftiness in, 149; and al-Mutawakkil’s assassination, 171; and palaces, 124–27; and performance, 77; redemption of, 175; in the Ruṣāfiyya, 107 ʿ Abd al-Karīm, Khalīl, 106, 237n136 ʿ Abd Manāf (Ibn Quṣayy), 104, 106, 234n69 ʿ Abd al-Muṭṭalib (Muhammad’s Grandfather), 104–5, 106–7 Abū al-ʿ Anbas al-Ṣaymarī (d. 888), 182 Abū al-ʿ Atāhiya (d. 825), 104, 179 Abū al-Ghawth (al-Buḥturī’s son), 165 Abū Hayyān al-Tawḥīdī (d. tenth cent.), 18, 48, 51 Abu-Lughod, Lila, 97–98 Abū Nuwās (d. ca. 810), 72, 234n85 Abū Tammām (d. 842), 45, 53–56, 86–87, 97, 135, 155, 181, 218n8; and “Bedouinness,” 93 Academy of Jundishapur, 26 adab, 14–15, 19, 27, 31–32, 34, 48, 184, 192, 196, 213nn2, 5, 6, 214n11, 216n1; and adab (cont.) audience, 34; and children, 71–74; curricula of, 35; customization of, 77; and history, 35–37; and narrative, 68; and performance, 37, 192, 194; and poetry, 68, 73; pragmatics of, 33–35; and women, 30–31. See also knowledge; narrative Aegisthus, 129–30 Agamemnon, 129–30. See also vengeance (thaʾr) akhbār, 14, 35–36, 60, 73, 213n5, 218n11, 226n118. See also anecdote (khabar); narrative Al-Azmeh, Aziz, 99, 108, 237n136 Alexander the Great, 5, 26 Ali (Ibn Abi Talib; d. 661), 59, 95 Alids, 59, 95, 127, 140, 141, 143; al-Muntaṣir’s policies toward, 148, 149, 150 al-Amīn (caliph), 56, 60 al-ʿĀmirī, 34 Amos (prophet), 22–23 ancestors: veneration of, 22 Ancient Egypt, 190, 223n50 Andalusia, 30, 54, 73, 182, 224n56 Anderson, Benedict, 99, 169 anecdote (khabar), 35, 57, 60, 184, 228n2 Anecdotes about al-Buḥturī (al-Ṣūlī), 71 Anecdotes about Idiots and Fools (Ibn al-Jawzī), 72–73 anthologies, 18, 48, 70, 233n63 Antioch, 158, 164 Anūshīrvān Khosrow I, 158, 163–66, 168 Aparvīz Khosrow II, 159, 165–66 apocalypse, 149 Apollo, 129 Arab East, 30 Arab West, 30 Arabic orthography, 42–43 Arabic script (abjad), 41, 42, 43 Arabic studies, 14 al-ʿ Askarī, Abū Hilāl (d. 1005), 70 al-Aṣmaʿī (d. ca. 828), 70 Assyrian culture, 21 atonement, 137, 146; ritual of, 148 audience: and adab, 34; attention of, 61, 139, 150–51, 184, 192; expectations of, 7, 56–57; folk literacy of, in the Īwān Kisrā ode, 163, 165, 166; impact of, on performer, 54, 57, 64; participation of, 81, 193; reaction of, 7, 28–29, 57; reception, 4, 140, 225n78; and standards of authenticity, 58. See also performance al-Azraqī, Abū al-Walīd (d. ca. 865), 104 bacchanalia, 18, 25, 44, 46, 50, 41, 52, 84, 212n1. See also comic-bacchic expression; mujālasāt Baghdad, 60, 76, 92, 124, 153, 179, 228n3; 229n8, 247n27; Abbasid, 39; bodily orientation and architecture in, 127; bumpkin-in-Baghdad anecdote, 108–11, 228n2; library in, 221n17; ninth century, 15, 19, 179 Bakhtin, M.M., 238n155, 241n43 basil (of scent and sound), 46 282 Index Bauman, Richard, 28–29, 61, 110, 238n152; on persuasion, 124. See also performance Bayāḍ and Riyāḍ, 29–30, 52, 54, 224n56 Bedouins, 45, 73, 75–76, 97, 128, 161, 225n88, 228nn2, 3, 234n81; abodes of, 162, 154, 247n19; and Bedouinness, 93; compared to Sasanians, 158, 247n19; culture of, 74; as idealized, 93; poetics of, 162; and the Ruṣāfiyya, 92; tribes of, 247n20; women, 98 beloved, 25, 47, 92, 94–95, 97, 112, 115, 178–79, 233n64; immaturity of, 144, 243n96; sacrality of, 239n161 beneficial lying, 65–68. See also history; knowledge; truth Blachère, Régis, 49 blindness, 45, 142 Blossoms of Humanistic Arts and Fruits of the Heart (al-Ḥuṣrī al-Qayrawānī), 140 Book of Monasteries, The (alSh ābushtī), 44, 52–53, 125 Book of Songs, The, 95, 130 Book of the Crown on the King’s Etiquette, The (al-Jāḥiẓ), 86 books, 4, 8, 38–39, 218n7, 220n12; and audience attention, 44; and teachers, 40. See also self-study Bouazza, Moulay (Abu Wanalgut; d. 1177...