Ghazal (Under The Umayyads)

DETAILS :

• Publisher: KITAB BHAVAN
  
• Author: Dr. Rais Fatima
  
• Language: Arabic Text with English Translation
  
• Pages: 302
  
• Cover: Hardcover
  
• Weight 460 gm
  
• Edition: 1995
  
• ISBN: 8171511791

ABOUT THE BOOK 

Dr, Rais Fatima's work dealing with the contribution of the Arab poets of the Middle Ages to ghazal, a form of lyrical poetry in Arabic, is truly a comprehensive .and analytical survey of the subject. Man must have courted women since antiquity by employing various means of expression, but the most appealing and inspiring must have been poetry. Hence, poetry reached its apogee in the form of lyrics which were meant to be sung, for poetry through music has a greater and direct appeal. With the ancient Arabs, poetry was their second nature. In the vast expanses of the desert, the rigours of the calimate and the search for waters fresh and pastures new, singing the verses of the ancient bards must have given the Arabs spiritual tranquility and mental peace, and sung in the melodious Arabian music, it must have roused their sense of yearning for the beloved.

During the Umayyad period, Arabic poetry acquired a higher form of pure ghazal, which became popular with the passage of time. This form deeply influenced world literature. Ghazal became the primary mode of expression in Persian which produced great poets like Sa'di and Hafiz. In modem times, it influenced Urdu, which gave us the greatest ghazal-writer of modem times Ghalib. Arabic ghazal, also influenced spanish Arabic poetry, where the special form, al-muurashshah, was developed, and produced the troubadours in Provence.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR 

Dr. Rais Fatima was born in Sitapur, U.P. and educated at different places as her father was in a transferable Govt. Job. She passed High School Examination in the year 1964, Intermediate as a Private Candidate and got her B.A Degree as a Student of Women's College, A.M.U., Aligarh. She completed M.A in Arabic from A.M.U., Aligarh, in the 1st Division and was awarded the University Medal for obtaining the 1st Position in 1970. She went on to get B.Ed. Degree from A.M.V. in 1st Division and ultimately got Ph.D. from the same University.

Now, Dr. Rais Fatima is a reader in Islamic Studies in Women's College, AMU. She has been writting articles and translating from Arabic to Urdu. Her first article was published in 'Munadi', Delhi in November, 1965. Since then she is contributing to the journals of National and Inter- national fame. Her articles were also indexed in 'Index Islamicus' printed in Great Britian, 1983 by Mansell publishing Limited in Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life-Bibliography of the World's Periodical Literature, American Bibliographical Centreclio Press, Peviero Campus, Santa Barbara, Calfornia, U.S.A.

She was a member of the Borad of Studies in Arabic, Pubjab University (Chandigarh) for six years. She was also elected and served as a member of the Academic Council of AMU for two years. She is a Keen Scholar and takes active part in Curricular and Co-Curricular activities.