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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
1st degree (Bachelor)
Responsible Department:
Arabic Language & Literature
Semester:
1st Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Dr. Guy Ron-Gilboa
Coordinator Office Hours:
By appointment
Teaching Staff:
Dr. Guy Ron-Gilboa
Course/Module description:
Abū ʿAlī al-Muḥassin b. ʿAlī al-Tanūḫī’s K. al-Faraǧ baʿd al-šidda is one of the pinnacles of classical Arabic narrative prose. During this module we shall read attentively a selection of its stories and learn to assess al-Tankūḫī’s literary artistry.
Course/Module aims:
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
1. Identify the main characteristics of the Faraǧ baʿd al-šidda genre in general and of al-Tanūḫī’s narrative art in particular
2. Read attentively classical Arabic narrative prose
3. Compare al-Tanūḫī’s stories to their parallels in other sources
Attendance requirements(%):
100%
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Course/Module Content:
A complete list will be circulated during the first classes.
Required Reading:
أبو علي الحسن بن علي التنوخي. كتاب الفرج بعد الشدّة. تحقيق عبّود الشالجي. بيروت: دار صادر، 1978. 5 أجزاء - a selection of text.
A list of required bibliographical items will be circulated during the first classes.
Additional Reading Material:
(a partial list)
Beaumont, Daniel. “Hard-Boiled: Narrative Discourse in Early Muslim Traditions.” Studia Islamica, no. 83 (1996): 5–31.
———. “In the Second Degree: Fictional Technique in At‐Tanūkhī’s Al‐Faraj ba’d ash‐shidda.” Arabic & Middle Eastern Literature 1, no. 2 (July 1998): 125–39.
Bray, Julia. “Al-Tanūkhī’s al-Faraj baʿd al-shidda as a Literary Source.” In Arabicus Felix: Luminosus Britannicus. Essays in Honour of A.F.L. Beeston on His Eightieth Birthday, edited by Alan Jones, 108–28. Reading: Ithaca Press, 1991.
———. “Practical Muʿtazilism: The Case of al-Tanūkhī.” In ʿAbbasid Studies: Occasional Papers of the School of ‘Abbasid Studies, Cambridge 6-10 July 2002, edited by James Montgomery, 111–26. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 135. Leuven: Peeters, 2004.
———. “Reading ‘the Exotic’ and Organising the Production of Knowledge: Al-Tanūkhī on Indians and Their Elephants.” Asiatische Studien - Études Asiatiques 71, no. 3 (2017): 833–856.
———. “ʿAbbasid Myth and the Human Act: Ibn ʿAbd Rabbih and Others.” In On Fiction and Adab in Medieval Arabic Literature, edited by Philip F. Kennedy, 1–54. Leiden: Brill, 2005.
Bray, Julia Ashtiany. “Isnāds and Models of Heroes: Abū Zubayd Al‐Ṭāʾī, Tanūkhī’s Sundered Lovers and Abū ‘l‐ʿAnbas Al‐Ṣaymarī.” Arabic & Middle Eastern Literature 1, no. 1 (January 1998): 7–30.
Fähndrich, H. “Al-Tanūk̲h̲ī.” EI2.
Fakkar, Rouchdi. At-Tanûḫî et son livre: La délivrance après l’angoisse. Cairo: Institut Français d’archéologie Orientale, 1955.
Gelder, Geert Jan van. “To Eat or Not to Eat Elephant: A Travelling Story in Arabic and Persian Literature.” Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 66, no. 3 (2003): 419–30.
Ghersetti, Antonella. “Human Initiative in Al-faraj baʿd al-shidda by Al-Tanūkhī.” Occasional Papers of the School of Abbasid Studies 4 (1992): 1–9.
———. “La ‘storia dell’uomo e del serpente’’’ nell’opera di al-Tanūḫī: l’elaborazione del motivo e la sua diffusione nella letteratura araba.’” Annali di Ca’ Foscari, S.O. 21, 29 (1990): 37–53.
Hamori, Andras. “Folklore in Tanūkhī: The Collector of Ramlah.” Studia Islamica 71 (1990): 65–75.
———. “The House of Brotherly Love: A Story in al-Tanūḫī and in The Thousand and One Nights.” In Problems in Arabic Literature, edited by Miklós Maróth, 15–26. Piliscsaba: Avicenna Institute of Middle Eastern Studies, 2004.
Khalifa, Nouha. Hardship and Deliverance in the Islamic Tradition: Theology and Spirituality in the Works of Al-Tanūkhī. Library of Middle East History 25. London & New York: Tauris Academic Studies, 2010.
Moebius, Marc Helmuth. “Narrative Judgments: The Qādī al -Tanūkhī and the ‘Faraj’ Genre in Medieval Arabic Literature.” Ph.D., Princeton University, 2008.
Özkan, Hakan. Narrativität im Kitāb al-Faraǧ baʿda š-šidda des Abū ʿAli al-Muḥassin at-Tanūḫī: eine literaturwissenschaftliche Studie abbasidischer Prosa. Islamkundliche Untersuchungen 280. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz, 2008.
Tanūh̲ī, al-Muḥassin ibn ʻAlī al-. The Table-Talk of a Mesopotamian Judge. Translated by D. S Margoliouth. London: Royal Asiatic Society, 1922.
Tanūkhī, al-Muḥassin ibn ʿAlī. Stories of Piety and Prayer: Deliverance Follows Adversity. Edited by Shawkat M. Toorawa. Translated by Julia Bray. Library of Arabic Literature. New York: New York University Press, 2019.
Tillier, Mathieu. “L’exemplarité chez al-Tanūḫī: Les cadis dans le ‘Nišwār al-Muḥāḍara.’” Arabica 54, no. 1 (2007): 1–24.
Wiener, Alfred. “Die Faraǧ baʿd aš-Šidda-Literatur: Von Madāʾinī († 255 H) bis Tanūḫī († 384 H): Ein Beitrag zur arabischen Literaturgeschichte.” Der Islam 4 (1913): 270–98, 387–420.
التنوخي, المحسن بن علي. الفرج بعد الشدة. تحقيق عبّود الشالجي.5 مجلّدات. بيروت: دار صادر, 1971.
القدحات, محمد عبد الله. اتجاهات الكتابة التاريخية في العراق في القرن الرابع الهجري: القاضي التنوخي (ت٣٨٤هج/٩٩٤م) نموذجًا. عمان: دار ورد الأردنية للنشر والتوزيع،, 2008.
شخاترة, خولة. الخبر عند المحسن التنوخي: بين القص والتاريخ. عمان: الوراق للنشر والتوزيع، 2004.
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 70 %
Presentation 20 %
Participation in Tutorials 10 %
Project work 0 %
Assignments 0 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %
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