What the Qāḍī Should Not Hear: Women, Eloquence, and the Poetics of Kināya in the Maqāma Šāmiyya of al-Hamaḏān

Maurice A. Pomerantz; Bilal W. Orfali

doi:10.1163/18115586-69010101

What the Qāḍī Should Not Hear: Women, Eloquence, and the Poetics of Kināya in the Maqāma Šāmiyya of al-Hamaḏān

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The Maqāma Šāmiyya of Badīʿ al-Zamān al-Hamaḏānī (d. 398/1008) has long been overlooked as a result of the decision of Muḥammad ʿAbduh to remove it from the first modern published edition of the Maqāmāt. This article provides a scholarly edition of the maqāma, a translation, and a study. It argues that al-Hamaḏānī's Šāmiyya uses the rhetorical device of kināya to reflect on the power of language and literary performance.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	5-25
Number of pages	21
Journal	Al-Abath
Volume	69
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1163/18115586-69010101
State	Published - 2021

Keywords

Badīʿ al-Zamān al-Hamaḏānī - Maqāma Šāmiyya - kināya

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Linguistics and Language

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