Descripción del proyecto
Poesía árabe oculta en cientos de fragmentos judíos
La historia de toda la sociedad árabe, independientemente de la fe y la religión, está marcada por la presencia de la poesía. Por ello, los judíos del mundo árabe incorporaron poesía árabe a su cultura y literatura. El proyecto APCG, financiado con fondos europeos, estudiará por primera vez una colección olvidada de fragmentos de poesía árabe escritos en judeoárabe, que es el árabe usado en los textos hebreos. Estos fragmentos, que se cuentan por centenas, se encuentran en un tesoro oculto judío conocido como la Geniza de El Cairo, que es una colección de unos 300 000 manuscritos y fragmentos judíos encontrados en la geniza o almacén de la sinagoga Ben Ezra en Fustat en el Viejo Cairo (Egipto). Los fragmentos constituyen una notable fuente de información para comprender el Egipto medieval y de inicios de la época moderna, y abarcan los campos de conocimientos de los estudios árabes, los estudios sociales y culturales judíos y los estudios antropológicos.
Objetivo
Poetry enjoys a special place in Arabic culture and literature. For centuries, Arabs of all faiths have considered poetry a key source for knowledge, intellectuality and wisdom. In the pre-Islamic era, poetry was considered as ‘the Arab knowledge’ and ‘the Arab cultural archive’, in which the social and cultural history, language, arts, music, religious and Arab’s human experience were stored and preserved. Being a part of Arabic culture, Jews of Arab lands equally enjoyed writing and reading poetry. APCG will investigate for the first time a hitherto neglected collection of Arabic poetry fragments written in Hebrew script (in Judaeo-Arabic), which has been preserved in arguably the most important Jewish treasure trove: the Cairo Genizah. The fragments, numbered in the hundreds, constitute a unique source for understanding medieval and Early Modern Egypt from three main perspectives: Arabic studies, Jewish social and cultural studies, and anthropological studies.
The core aims of the project are:
• to make the entirety of Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic poetry in the Cairo Genizah accessible to both academic scholars and to the public in a comprehensive database and in critical editions;
• to reveal, through the study of poetry, hitherto hidden aspects of social and cultural history of the Jews in the Middle East with regard to literacy, education and intercommunal relations;
• to explore hierarchies, interpersonal relationships and the social function of poetry in medieval and early modern Egypt through the study of Genizah poetry.
To achieve the planned main objectives, APCG carries out a thorough interdisciplinary study of Genizah’s Arabic poetry. This approach involves research from philological, linguistic, literary, historical and anthropological perspectives.
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ERC-STG - Starting GrantInstitución de acogida
D02 CX56 DUBLIN 2
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