"Passed around by a Crescent"

This publication explores the presence of the shared heritage and interdependence of poetry composed around the theme of wine in diverse literary traditions of the Islamic world. The specialist contributions discuss multiple aspects of the literary polyphony of wine in the pre-modern Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, Ottoman Turkish, and Urdu literatures during the first millennium of the Islamic era. Presenting these together and in dialogue with one another, the volume offers a comparative perspective on a long, varied, but singularly mutual tradition. It traces how this poetry develops, flourishes and matures across linguistic and geographic, confessional and social, aesthetic and artistic boundaries within the regions of the religiously and culturally diverse Islamic world, from al-Andals to India.

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Die Publikation untersucht das gemeinsame Erbe und die Interdependenzen von Poesie rund um das Thema Wein in verschiedenen literarischen Traditionen der islamischen Welt. Die Fachbeiträge diskutieren vielfältige Aspekte der auf Wein bezogenen literarischen Polyphonie in der vormodernen arabischen, persischen, hebräischen, osmanischen, türkischen und Urdu-Literatur während des ersten Jahrtausends der islamischen Ära.