Cultural Pearls from the East: In Memory of Shmuel Moreh (1932-2017)

356 Pages·2021·4.546 MB·English

by  Meir Hatina, Yona Sheffer

Cultural Pearls from the East
Studies on Performing Arts &
Literature of the Islamicate World
Series Editors
Li Guo (University of Notre Dame)
Richard Jankowsky (Tufts University)
Margaret Litvin (Boston University)
Advisory Board
Walter Armbrust (Oxford)
Marvin Carlson (CUNY-GC)
Matthew Isaac Cohen (Royal Holloway)
Nacim Pak-Shiraz (University of Edinburgh)
Friederike Pannewick (Marburg)
Dwight Reynolds (University of California Santa Barbara)
Nehad Selaiha (Cairo)
Martin Stokes (King’s College, London)
Andrew Weintraub (University of Pittsburgh)
volume 11
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Portrait of Professor Shmuel Moreh
Cultural Pearls
from the East
In Memory of Shmuel Moreh (1932–2017)
Edited by
Meir Hatina
Yona Sheffer
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The opening passage of Egyptian historian ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Jabartī’s description of the first year of the
French occupation of Egypt (June 15, 1798–June 5, 1799). Al-Jabartī pronounced the occupation a grave
disaster. Source: The Marvelous Chronicles: Biographies and Events by ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Ḥasan al-Jabartī,
edited by Shmuel Moreh (Jerusalem: The Hebrew University, 2013), vol. 3, p. 1. [in Arabic].
Calligraphy and design by Nihad Nadam.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Hatina, Meir, editor. | Sheffer, Yona, editor. | Moreh, Shmuel
 honoree.
Title: Cultural pearls from the East : in memory of Shmuel Moreh, 1932–2017
 / edited by Meir Hatina, Yona Sheffer.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2021. | Series: Studies on performing
 arts & literature of the Islamicate world, 2214-6563 ; volume 11 |
 Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021010839 (print) | LCCN 2021010840 (ebook) | ISBN
 9789004448780 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004459120 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Arabic literature—History and criticism. | Middle
 East—History. | Middle East—Historiography.
Classification: LCC PJ7510 .C85 2021 (print) | LCC PJ7510 (ebook) | DDC
 892.7/09—dc23
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Contents
Acknowledgments xi
A Note on Transliteration xii
Abbreviations xiii
Notes on Contributors xiv
Introduction: Shmuel Moreh (1932–2017): Scholar and Humanist 1
Meir Hatina
Shmuel Moreh’s Scientific Achievements 18
Menahem Milson and Meir M. Bar-Asher
part 1
Poetry
Narrative in Ancient Arabic Heroic Poetry: The Account of the Battle 31
Albert Arazi
An Unpublished Poem in Honor of the Prophet Moses 49
Joseph Sadan
An Anti-Jewish Qaṣīda by Sīdī Qaddūr al-ʿAlamī 57
Norman (Noam) A. Stillman
“To Choose Your Own Sky”: Rootedness and Dislocation in the Poetry
of Saʿdī Yūsuf 69
Yair Huri-Horesh
Intertextuality in Samīḥ al-Qāsim’s Poetry: A Philosophy of Blending 91
Ibrahim Taha
viii Contents
part 2
Prose and Drama
The Pimps’ Maqāma: A Libertine Piece of Ornate Prose from a Manuscript of
the Mamluk Period 109
Amir Lerner
Where Is the Holy Land? A Reading of Two Seventeenth-Century Arabic
Manuscripts of Virtues of the Holy Land Literature 126
Ghaleb Anabseh
Samīr Naqqāsh: From One Universe to Another—Iraq to Israel 142
Geula Elimelekh
Representations of Women in the Literary Works of Egyptian Writer Jamāl
al-Ghīṭānī 161
Yona Sheffer
Shared Passion: Imam Ḥusayn in Persian and Arabic Drama 179
Peter Chelkowski
Fūl, Egypt’s National Food: A Key Component of Egyptian Identity and Its
Reflections in Modern Egyptian Literature 194
Gabriel M. Rosenbaum
Contemporary Arabic Literature and Its Obsession with the Internet 224
Eman Younis
part 3
Historiography
An Unknown Chronicle of Ottoman Egypt and Its Historiographical
Implications 247
Jane Hathaway
The Sufi Personality of the Egyptian Historian ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Jabartī
(1753–1825) 264
Michael Winter
Contents ix
Encountering Modernity in the Late Nineteenth Century: Two Egyptian
Accounts 288
Meir Hatina
Shmuel Moreh’s Baghdad Mon Amour: Autobiographical Works as Historical
and Cultural Documents 315
Sigal Goorji
Index 333