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Final Program

PLEASE NOTE: THE COLLOQUIUM IS CONDUCTED IN ARABIC

Georgetown Colloquium in Arabic Literature, Spring 2015

Arabic Poetry: Critical and Theoretical Dimensions

Sponsored by the Department of Arabic & Islamic Studies, Georgetown University

April 16-17, CCAS Boardroom (ICC 241)

Organizers:

Suzanne P. Stetkevych, Sultan Qaboos bin Said Professor of Arabic & Islamic Studies, Georgetown University

and

Hussain Abulfaraj, Assistant Professor of Arabic Literature, King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; Faculty Delegate to Georgetown University

Thursday 16 April: 3:30-5:30

Panel 1: Variations of Qaṣīdah Structure in Islamic and Umayyad Poetry

Paper 1: Awareness of Socio-Poetic Transition in a Poem by the Mukhaḍam Poet ‘Abdah ibn al-Ṭabīb

Mohammad Alqanaei, Assistant Professor of Arabic Language and Literature, Kuwait University

Paper 2: The Poetics of the Khawārij and Shī‘ah during the Umayyad Period: The Incomplete Performative Paradigm

Hussain Abulfaraj, Assistant Professor of Arabic Literature, King Abdulaziz University, Faculty Delegate to Georgetown University

Paper 3: From Praise to Stir of Compassion: Jarīr at ʿUmar Ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz’s Court

Mustafa Muhammad BinMayaba, Assistant Professor, King Abdul-Aziz University; Visiting Scholar, Indiana University

6:00-8:00pm: Keynote Address and Reception

The ʿAyniyyah of Abū Dhuʾayb al-Hudhalī

Elegy and the Achievement of Allegorical Form in Classical Arabic Poetry

by

Jaroslav Stetkevych

Professor Emeritus of Arabic Literature, The University of Chicago;

Research Affiliate, Georgetown University

Friday, 17 April

ICC 241 (CCAS  BOARDROOM)

9:00-11:00am

Panel 2: Performativity and Originality in ʿAbbāsid Poetry

Paper 1: Al-Buḥturī’s Poetic Innovation and the Role of Audience

Al Amein Ali Alshareif, Assistant Professor of Arabic Literature, United Arab Emirates University

Paper 2: A Failure Performance or a Symbol of Cultural Decline? The Panegyric Performance of al-Buhturi before al-Mutawakkil: “Out of which Mouth Do You Smile?”

Ali Alnahhabi, Lecturer, Imam University, Saudi Arabia; Ph.D. Candidate, Indiana University

Paper 3: The Problematic Consequences of Method in Ibn al-Mu‘tazz’s Kitāb al-Badīʿ

Mishari Almusa, Assistant Professor of Arabic Language and Literature, Kuwait University

11:15-12:30

Panel 3: Arabic Poetry: Comparative and Interarts Dimensions

Paper 1: The Construction of Selfhood and the Poetics of Identity in Ashanti and Abbasid Court Panegyrics: A Comparative Study

Nana Aba Bentil-Mawusi, PhD candidate, Indiana University

Paper 2: The Musical Notation – Arabic Prosody Equation

Noman Kidwah, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, King Abdulaziz University

[lunch break]

2:30-4:30pm

Panel 4: Modernism between Tradition and Innovation

Paper 1:  The Iḥyā’/Revival Panegyric Poem: Allegiance and Succession

Abdulmueen H. Balfas, Assistant Professor of Arabic Literature, King Abdulaziz University

Paper 2: The Motif of the She-Camel in Contemporary Nabati Poetry

Hamad al-Ajmi, Assistant Professor of Arabic Language and Literature, Kuwait University

Paper 3: The Prose Poem and the Arabic Tradition

Huda Fakhreddine, Assistant Professor of Arabic Literature, University of Pennsylvania

4:45-6:00pm

Final Remarks and Closing Reception