Bashshār b. Burd’s Double Entendre: Master of Shiʿr and Rajaz
Bashshār b. Burd composed a masterful poem in the rajaz style in the aftermath of an infamous incident with ʿUqba b. Ruʾba, the son of the celebrated rajaz poet Ruʾba b. al-ʿAjjāj. An analysis of the poem shows that it might have been composed as a double entendre. While the poem was meant to be a p...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2023
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Journal of Abbasid Studies
Year: 2023, Volume: 10, Issue: 1, Pages: 33-55 |
| Further subjects: | B
rajaz
B muḥdath poetry B Persians B shuʿūbiyya B qaṣīda B Bedouins B Bashshār b. Burd |
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| Summary: | Bashshār b. Burd composed a masterful poem in the rajaz style in the aftermath of an infamous incident with ʿUqba b. Ruʾba, the son of the celebrated rajaz poet Ruʾba b. al-ʿAjjāj. An analysis of the poem shows that it might have been composed as a double entendre. While the poem was meant to be a panegyric in praise of the Basran governor Ibn Salm, Bashshār imbued the poem with satirical references to his rival poet ʿUqba b. Ruʾba. The poem reflects themes of shuʿūbiyya, the poetic rivalry between the conservative and the modern poets, and contempt against the monopoly of tradition and family heritage. |
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| ISSN: | 2214-2371 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Abbasid Studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/22142371-00802011 |