Erudition and nostalgia. Al-Hanīn ilā l-awtān on editing al-Tanūkhī’s al-Faraj ba`d al-shidda
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https://doi.org/10.3989/alqantara.2010.004Keywords:
Arabic Literature, Nostalgia, al- Hanīn ilā l-awtān, Baghdad, Iraq, al-Tanūkhī, Abbūd al-ShāljīAbstract
If you want to read a book, a medieval Arabic book, that talks to you about man and his relation with power (God’s power or any kind of worldly power), or about daily life in 10th century Basra or Baghdad, you will probably choose al-Tanūkhī’s works. His Nishwār al-muhādara wa-l-mudhākara or al-Faraj ba,d al-shidda are so widely and so well provided with stories, anecdotes, historical narratives, etc., that you won’t be able to drop it and probably will forget to read the many comments and marginal notes by, Abbūd al-Shāljī, its editor. But if you are wise enough, you will read everything he writes, because you will find in his remarks not only a sustained scholarliness but a fascinating evocation of his life in Irak, mostly in the thirties, with its cooking, manners and customs, and a pang of nostalgia that deserves, I think, at least a note or a friendly comment. In this paper I try to analyse some of his nostalgic memories of Baghdad and its people and places.
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