Wearing the Belt of Oppression: Khāqāni’s Christian Qasida and the Prison Poetry of Medieval Shirvān

This article examines how the Persian prison poem (habsiyāt) incorporated Islamic legal norms for governing non-Muslim peoples into its poetics. By tracing how Khāqāni of Shirvān (d. 1199) brought the aesthetics of incarceration to bear on Islamic legal regulations pertaining to non-Muslim communiti...

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Autor principal: Gould, Rebecca (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
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Publicado: Brill 2016
En: Journal of Persianate studies
Año: 2016, Volumen: 9, Número: 1, Páginas: 19-44
Otras palabras clave:B political aesthetics
B Prisons
B Azerbaijan
B Forma
B Shirvānshāh
B Islamic Law
B zemmi
B Persian
B Caucasus literatures
B Incarceration
B Genre
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Sumario:This article examines how the Persian prison poem (habsiyāt) incorporated Islamic legal norms for governing non-Muslim peoples into its poetics. By tracing how Khāqāni of Shirvān (d. 1199) brought the aesthetics of incarceration to bear on Islamic legal regulations pertaining to non-Muslim communities (ahl al-zemma), I offer a new perspective on the politics of poetry in Persian culture. As I delineate the intertextual references to legal stipulations (shorut) pertaining to non-Muslims that suffuse Khāqāni’s Christian qasida, I demonstrate how the Persian poetics of incarceration coalesced into a powerful internal critique of Islamic law.
ISSN:1874-7167
Obras secundarias:Enthalten in: Journal of Persianate studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/18747167-12341296