A Mirror for the Modern Man: The Siyar Šaʿbiyya as Advice Literature in Tunisian Judeo-Arabic Editions

Historically, the siyar šaʿbiyya (sing. sīra) corpus—a collection of popular, orally-performed Arabic chivalric legends—have been cast as being outside of the ambit of adab (belles-lettres). Rather, scholars and critics both classical and modern have tended to regard them as tall tales and pseudo-hi...

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Main Author: Schine, Rachel (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2018
In: Arabica
Year: 2018, Volume: 65, Issue: 3, Pages: 392-418
Further subjects:B Judeo-Arabic judéo-arabe sīra sīra popular literature littérature populaire Tunis Tunis Livorno Livorno colonialism colonialisme mirror-for-princes miroir des princes adab adab
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)