Description |
1 online resource (xii, 253 pages) |
Series |
Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des islamischen Orients ; n.F., Bd. 20 |
|
Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des islamischen Orients (2004) ; n.F., Bd. 20.
|
Contents |
Frontmatter -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- Einleitung -- Erster Teil. Zeit und Zeitlichkeit in der vorislamisch-arabischen Dichtung -- Erstes Kapitel. Zeitvorstellungen in der altarabischen Dichtung -- Zweites Kapitel. Wahrnehmung der Zeitlichkeit -- Zweiter Teil. Arabischer Hellenismus -- Drittes Kapitel. Dahr: Arabischer aion -- Viertes Kapitel. Aufhebung der Zeit in Koran und Überlieferung -- Perspektivische Abschlussbemerkungen -- Backmatter |
Summary |
This work deals with concepts of time in pre-Islamic Arabic poetry and in the Koran, placing them in relation to Hellenistic conceptions of time in Late Antique poetry. The analysis shows that just as in the much earlier field of Greek poetry, so too in Old Arabic verse time is seen as an inescapable power. The Arabic concept for endless time, dahr, is revealed to be the Arabic equivalent of the Greek concept aión. In the Koran the power of time is denied completely and replaced by the absolute power of God, which is described with the help of Hellenistic conceptions of time. The research sugg |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-244) and index |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
|
In German |
|
Print version record |
|
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
SUBJECT |
Qurʼan -- Language, style.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85072971
|
|
Qurʼan fast |
|
Koran gnd |
|
Qurʼan -- Language, style nli |
Subject |
Arabic literature -- To 622 -- History and criticism
|
|
Arabic literature -- To 622 -- Greek influences
|
|
Time in literature.
|
|
LITERARY CRITICISM -- African.
|
|
Language and languages -- Style
|
|
Arabic literature
|
|
Time in literature
|
|
Zeit
|
|
Altarabisch
|
|
Literatur
|
|
Zeit Motiv
|
|
Arabic literature -- To 622 -- History and criticism
|
|
Arabic literature -- To 622 -- Greek influences
|
|
Time in literature
|
|
Altarabisch.
|
Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
|
Form |
Electronic book
|
ISBN |
9783110210668 |
|
3110210665 |
|