Ethics and Poetry in Sixth-Century Arabia
- Submitting institution
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University of Oxford
- Unit of assessment
- 25 - Area Studies
- Output identifier
- 139
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Gibb Memorial Trust
- ISBN
- 9781909724969
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This book reconstructs the world view of the poetry of pre-Islamic Arabia. This was achieved by a decades' long, multi-layered study to discern the era’s ethical system in all its expressive complexity. Specifically, corpora of the ancient poems were subjected to a
synchronic semantic analysis that revealed, first, the ideological structure of key ethical concepts, and, subsequently, their expression and elaboration in the form of similes, metaphors and extended poetical episodes. The historicity of the ethical constructs so revealed is demonstrated by comparison with their visible transformations in the Qurʾanic ethical system, and the poetry of the first Islamic century.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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