ARABIC LITERATURE

The course sets out to face a central question in the history of Arabic literature since its origins, the question of its relationship with alterity, providing students with a) improvements in their linguistic competence through reading, interpretation and analysis of texts in Arabic and in Italian; b) critical and methodological instruments for analysis and in-depth study; c) awareness of the historical-literary problems also from the “comparatist philological” perspective.

Representations of alterity in Arabic literature.

Module 1:

Reading, interpretation and analysis of texts in Arabic (6 CFU).

Extracts from works by Gahiz, Tawhidi, Ibn Hawqal, Ibn Giubayr, Usama ibn Munqidh, Tahtawi, Tayeb Salih, Hoda Barakat will be considered.

Module 2:

The other and elsewhere in Arabic texts (3 CFU).

- M. Cassarino (a cura di), Lo sguardo sull’altro, lo sguardo dell’altro. L’alterità in testi medievali, Introduzione di A. Pioletti, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli 2011.

- S. Pagani (a cura di), L’altro nella cultura araba, Presentazione di M.F. Corrao, Mesogea, Messina 2006.

- H.T. Norris, Shu’ubiyyah in Arabic Literature, in J.Ashtiyany et alii (a cura di), The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature. ‘Abbasid Belles-Lettres, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 31-47.

- B. Scarcia Amoretti, Modelli autorevoli: l’“Epistola di al-Jahiz (m. 869) contro i cristiani”. Qualche osservazione, in “Rivista degli Studi Orientali”, 78 (II) 1/-4, 2005, pp. 63-75.

Ulteriori indicazioni bibliografiche saranno fornite nel corso delle lezioni.

Please remember that in compliance with art 171 L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.

For further information on sanctions and regulations concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian Association on Copyright).

All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.