The Chapters on Women in Two Adab Encyclopaedias from the Mamluk Period: Al-Nuwayrī’s Nihāyat al-arab and al-Ibshīhī’s Mustaṭraf

Abstract This paper is a study of the chapters devoted to women in general and to female figures (female singers) in two encyclopaedic adab works of the Mamluk period, al-Nuwayrī’s Nihāyat al-arab and al-Ibshīhī’s al-Mustaṭraf fī kulli fann al-mustaẓraf. We will analyse the content of these chapters...

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Published in:Hawwa
Main Author: Bernal, Desirée López (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2021
In: Hawwa
Further subjects:B al-Nuwayrī
B Women
B Mamluks
B adab encyclopaedia
B Nihāyat al-arab
B Adab
B al-Mustaṭraf
B female adab character type
B al-Ibshīhī
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Summary:Abstract This paper is a study of the chapters devoted to women in general and to female figures (female singers) in two encyclopaedic adab works of the Mamluk period, al-Nuwayrī’s Nihāyat al-arab and al-Ibshīhī’s al-Mustaṭraf fī kulli fann al-mustaẓraf. We will analyse the content of these chapters, their focus, the materials from which they are constructed and their objectives within the ensemble of the works. We will also look at the moral and intellectual qualities that configure the portrayal of women in these books, in common with others of adab prose. The final aim of all this is to obtain results to add to those that already exist, with a view to defining the female character types in this literature, the topics that make women visible in it and their relationship with male characters in the stories.
ISSN:1569-2086
Contains:Enthalten in: Hawwa
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15692086-bja10028