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5 - Pre-modern belletristic prose

from Part II - Elite prose

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2008

By
Muhsin al-Musawi
Edited by
Roger Allen  and
D. S. Richards
Roger Allen
Affiliation:
University of Pennsylvania
D. S. Richards
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
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Any survey of pre-modern belletristic prose in Arabic cannot avoid discussion of generic hierarchies. Such controversies and debates are deeply rooted in processes of political and cultural transformation, trends that demand, and at times instigate, new yardsticks and scales of gradation among literary genres. But even at a time in Arabic literary history when chancery interests assured prose a lofty status, there emerged a tendency, after the appearance of the Maqāmāt of al-Harīrī (445–516/1054-1122), to assess, compare and grade clerks and scribes according to their specific vocation in state treasury departments or in the Dīwān al-inshā’, all this in spite of the frequent transfer of scribes between the two categories of post. An illustrious figure such as Khalīl ibn Aybak Salah al-Dīn al-Safadī (696–764/1297–1363) began his career as kātib darj (clerk of the roll) before being transferred to kātib dast (clerk of the bench). Others like al-Harīrī himself and Muhammad ibn Mukarram (ibn Manzūr) (d. 711/1311), the compiler of the famous dictionary, Lisān al-‘Arab (Language of the Arabs), served as clerks in treasury departments. No less demarcated was the distinction between ‘ulamā ’ (religious scholars) on the one hand and professional functionaries on the other. Chancery training and apprenticeship had become a rigorous exercise, with enormous demands on the trainee, especially if the latter had aspirations to the status of kuttāb al-dast (clerks of the bench) or sahib dīwān al-inshā’ (head chancery clerk) after a period of initiation as clerk of the roll (darj) or of bayt al-māl (state treasury).

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Arabic Literature in the Post-Classical Period , pp. 99 - 133
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Print publication year: 2006

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