Verbal Art as a Route into Local Knowledge in Yemen: The Work of ‘Abd Allāh al-Baraddūnī on ‘Alī bin Zāyid

IF 0.2 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Narrative Culture Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI:10.1353/ncu.2022.0003

Noura Kamal

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Abstract:This article focuses on the importance of verbal art, especially proverbs, and its contribution to a more profound understanding of Yemeni society, particularly key historical figures such as ‘Alī bin Zāyid. The Yemeni scholar and poet ‘Abd Allāh al-Baraddūnī (1929–1999), who compiled a large corpus of folk sayings and proverbs over his lifetime, played a significant role in this regard. In particular, al-Baraddūnī scrutinizes the folk sayings and proverbs of ‘Alī bin Zāyid as a source of narratives. As highlighted by al-Baraddūnī, to obtain a more nuanced understanding of a society, it is crucial to look beyond the formal production of history and official literature. Proverbs are an important source here. They often derive from longer stories or refer to real events and provide local, culturally appropriate interpretations in highly condensed form. In turn, proverbs are often extended into longer narratives. The study of popular fables, songs, folk poems, and proverbs can provide an insight into local, culturally transmitted knowledge that is usually obscured, neglected, and undocumented.

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语言艺术作为也门当地知识的途径:' Abd Allāh al-Baraddūnī on ' al ' bin Zāyid的作品

摘要：本文重点介绍了语言艺术，尤其是谚语的重要性，以及它对更深入地了解也门社会，特别是像Alībin Zāyid这样的关键历史人物的贡献。也门学者和诗人Abd Allāh al-Baraddúnī（1929–1999）一生编纂了大量民间谚语和谚语，在这方面发挥了重要作用。特别是，al-Baraddúnī仔细研究了“alībin Zāyid”的民间谚语和谚语，将其作为叙事的来源。正如al-Baraddúnī所强调的那样，要想对一个社会有更细致的理解，就必须超越历史和官方文献的正式制作。谚语是这里的一个重要来源。谚语通常来源于较长的故事或参考真实事件，并以高度浓缩的形式提供当地、文化上合适的解释。反过来，谚语往往被扩展为较长的叙事。对流行寓言、歌曲、民间诗歌和谚语的研究可以深入了解当地文化传播的知识，这些知识通常被掩盖、忽视和记录在案。

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期刊介绍： Narrative Culture is a new journal that conceptualizes narration as a broad and pervasive human practice, warranting a holistic perspective that grasps the place of narrative comparatively across time and space. The journal invites contributions that document, discuss and theorize narrative culture, and offers a platform that integrates approaches spread across various disciplines. The field of narrative culture thus outlined is defined by a large variety of forms of popular narratives, including not only oral and written texts, but also narratives in images, three-dimensional art, customs, rituals, drama, dance, music, and so forth. Narrative Culture is peer-reviewed and international as well as interdisciplinary in orientation.