出版社：Middle East Documentation Center (MEDOC), University of Chicago
摘要：Unlike the Mamluk muwashshaḥah, which Sulāfah ʿAbd Allāh treated in her recent monograph, 1 neither Mamluk zajals nor the Eastern zajal tradition as a whole have been studied to date, and only a few published studies on individual zajals exist. Madeleine Voegeli wrote about an Egyptian ballad monger’s zajal by al-Nāyib from around the eleventh/seventeenth century. 2 Otfried Weintritt elaborated on a zajal by the Cairene al-Ḥammāmī (“the bathkeeper”; d. 712/1312), which describes the decline of his bath. 3 Margaret Larkin’s article dealt with a model zajal by the Egyptian poet al-Ghubārī (active during the second half of the fourteenth century). 4 Heikki Palva studied an Egyptian zajal of the eighth/fourteenth century “in dispraise of women,” written in Hebrew characters. 5 Thomas Bauer examined Ibrāhīm al-Miʿmār’s zajal on the river Nile, 6 which is one of a dozen zajals that are the subject of the current article. More recently, Hinrich Biesterfeldt produced an article on al-Miʿmār’s zajal on beer, which is also a central focus of this study. 7 All the zajals discussed in this article are included in an edition of Ibrāhīm al-Miʿmār’s dīwān that Thomas Bauer, Anke Osigus, and I are currently preparing.
