Wearing the Belt of Oppression: Khāqāni’s Christian Qasida and the Prison Poetry of Medieval Shirvān

This article examines how the Persian prison poem (habsiyāt) incorporated Islamic legal norms for governing non-Muslim peoples into its poetics. By tracing how Khāqāni of Shirvān (d. 1199) brought the aesthetics of incarceration to bear on Islamic legal regulations pertaining to non-Muslim communiti...

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Main Author: Gould, Rebecca (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2016
In: Journal of Persianate studies
Year: 2016, Volume: 9, Issue: 1, Pages: 19-44
Further subjects:B political aesthetics
B Prisons
B Azerbaijan
B Shirvānshāh
B Form
B Islamic Law
B zemmi
B Persian
B Caucasus literatures
B Incarceration
B Genre
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