Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2016) 'Wearing the Belt of Oppression: Khāqāni's Christian Qasida and the Prison Poetry of Medieval Shirvān.' Journal of Persianate Studies, 9 (1). pp. 19-44.
Abstract
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.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| SOAS Departments & Centres: | Departments and Subunits > School of Languages, Cultures & Linguistics |
| ISSN: | 18747094 |
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier): | https://doi.org/10.1163/18747167-12341296 |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Oct 2023 09:08 |
| URI: | https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/40495 |
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