Book contents
- The Cambridge World History of Violence
- The Cambridge History of Violence
- The Cambridge World History of Violence
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Table
- Contributors to Volume II
- Introduction to Volume II
- Part I Beyond Warfare: Armies, Tribes and Lords
- Part II The Violence of Governments and Rulers
- Part III Social, Interpersonal and Collective Violence
- Part IV Religious, Sacred and Ritualised Violence
- Part V Depictions of Violence
- 25 Obligation, Substitution and Order
- 26 Representations of Violence in Imperial China
- 27 Revealing the Manly Worth: Cut Flesh in the Heavenly Disorder of Medieval Japan
- 28 Picturing Violence in the Islamic Lands
- 29 Scenes of Violence in Arabic Literature
- 30 Violence Is the Name of the [Bad] Game: The Downside of Human Nature as Reflected in Medieval Literature
- 31 Violence and the Force of Representation in European Art
- Index
- References
29 - Scenes of Violence in Arabic Literature
from Part V - Depictions of Violence
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 March 2020
Book contents
- The Cambridge World History of Violence
- The Cambridge History of Violence
- The Cambridge World History of Violence
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Table
- Contributors to Volume II
- Introduction to Volume II
- Part I Beyond Warfare: Armies, Tribes and Lords
- Part II The Violence of Governments and Rulers
- Part III Social, Interpersonal and Collective Violence
- Part IV Religious, Sacred and Ritualised Violence
- Part V Depictions of Violence
- 25 Obligation, Substitution and Order
- 26 Representations of Violence in Imperial China
- 27 Revealing the Manly Worth: Cut Flesh in the Heavenly Disorder of Medieval Japan
- 28 Picturing Violence in the Islamic Lands
- 29 Scenes of Violence in Arabic Literature
- 30 Violence Is the Name of the [Bad] Game: The Downside of Human Nature as Reflected in Medieval Literature
- 31 Violence and the Force of Representation in European Art
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter presents a number of contact zones in the spectrum of violence, zones around which the fears, anxieties, concerns and aspirations provoked by instances of violence and their representation were concentrated. I discuss the following scenes of violence: The War Against Time; Apocalypse; The Anxiety of Remembrance; Abomination; The Nonhuman World; Spectacle. These zones do not constitute categories of violence but, like violence itself, are porous and mimetic. The temporal focus of the survey covers some six centuries, from the pre-Islamic sixth century to the twelfth century and the Crusades.
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- The Cambridge World History of Violence , pp. 601 - 622Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020