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Manas

(919 words)

Author(s): Hatto, A.T.
, the name of the paramount hero of the Ki̊rg̲h̲i̊z oral epic tradition and also of the totality of the epics which accreted about him and his kindred by the process of cyclisation, in this case very marked. Some 4,000,000 lines of Manas are said to have been recorded in Kirgizia in this century, but not one scholarly edition of a self-contained performance has appeared, or, if it has, has yet reached the West. A recording of an episode from Manas was made by R. Dor in the Pamir in 1973, of which a philological edition, with translation and commentary, is imminent; and recordings of Manas in Xinjia…

Ḥamāsa

(10,511 words)

Author(s): Pellat, Ch. | Massé, H. | Mélikoff, I. | Hatto, A.T. | Ahmad, Aziz
(A.), “bravery”, “valour” (used nowadays together with ḥamās , to translate “enthusiasm”), is the title of a certain number of poetic anthologies which generally include brief extracts chosen for their literary value in the eyes of the anthologists and classified according to the genre to which they belong or the idea which they express; these works are related to a more general category, that of “poetic themes”, maʿānī ’l-s̲h̲iʿr [ q.v.], but differ from it in the apparent effacement of the author who abstains from any comparison or judgement and imposes his tast…