Arabic Literature on Adam Talib

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Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Arabic Literature, 1200–1800: A New Orientation

Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Edited by Monica Balda-Tillier and Adam Talib.

Special Issue of Annales Islamologiques (Volume 49, Cairo: Institut français d’archéologie orientale, 2016).

The issue gathers studies that revisit Arabic literary production between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries, a period too often treated as marginal in older literary histories. Its introduction and six dossier articles describe renewed attention to post-classical Arabic writing through case studies of lesser-known authors, embedded poems, love treatises, shadow theatre, robbers, hashish, and other subjects that reveal the period’s creative vitality.

The Rude, the Bad, and the Bawdy: Essays in Honour of Geert Jan van Gelder

Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Edited by Adam Talib, Marlé Hammond, and Arie Schippers.

This volume collects eighteen essays on all facets of obscenity in classical and modern Arabic literature to celebrate the career of Geert Jan van Gelder, FBA, Laudian Professor of Arabic. Contributors examine how indecency, profanity, taboo, wit, parody, and erotic expression have been signalled, evaluated, translated, and preserved across Arabic literary history.

My contribution is entitled “Caricature and obscenity in mujūn poetry and African-American women’s hip-hop,” comparing modes of caricatured obscenity across both genres to demonstrate their parodic and camp orientation.