Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures

Email:

stetkevy@indiana.edu

Department:

Emeriti Faculty

Campus:

IU Bloomington

Courses Recently Taught

• Poetry and Empire: the Arabic Ode (in English)
• Tracing the Nasibic Journey (in Arabic)
• Translating Arabic Poetry, Modern, and Classical
• The Mantle Odes: Praise Poem to the Prophet (in English and in Arabic)

Publication Highlights

• Abū Tammām and the Poetics of the ‛Abbāsid Age. Leiden: Brill, 1991 [Arabic translation by Hassan Ezz el-Din, titled Al-Shi`r wa al-Shi`riyyah fi al-`Asr al-`Abbasi, Egyptian National Center for Translation, 2008].
• The Mute Immortals Speak: Pre-Islamic Poetry and the Poetics of Ritual. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1993.
• Adab al-Siyāsah wa-Siyāsat al-Adab: al-Tafīir al-T uqūsī li-Qas īdat al-Madh fī al-Shi‛r al-‛Arabī al-Qadīm [The Poetics of Politics and the Politics of Poetics: Ceremony in the Classical Arabic Panegyric Ode]. Translated by Hasan al-Banna `Izz al-Din, with the author. Cairo: General Egyptian Book Organization, 1998.
• The Poetics of Islamic Legitimacy: Myth, Gender and Ceremony in the Classical Arabic Ode. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002.
• Early Islamic Poetry and Poetics: The Formation of the Classical Islamic World, 37. United Kingdom: Ashgate Variorum, 2009.
• The Mantle Odes: Arabic Praise Poems to the Prophet Muhammad. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010.