caa a22 4500 386370710 CHVBK 20180307111957.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198911 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0020743800032918 doi S0020743800032918 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0020743800032918 Boullata Issa J. Institute of Islamic Studies Mcgill University Textual Intentions: A Reading Of Adonis' Poem "Unintended Workship Ritual” [Elektronische Daten] [Issa J. Boullata] In his long poem entitled "Quddās bi-lā qasd” (Unintended Worship Ritual), the well-known Syrian-Lebanese poet Adonis (Dr. 'Ali Ahmad Sa'īd) celebrates a love relationship with a young woman he came to know while he was a professor at the Syrian University in Damascus. He mentions two dates and two cities at the end of the poem, suggesting perhaps that he began writing the poem in Damascus in January of 1976 and that he finished it in Beirut in August of 1978. He had moved to Damascus from Beirut during the early years of the Lebanese Civil War and accepted a teaching position at the Syrian University, but he later returned to Beirut, where his home had been since he had left his native Syria to become a Lebanese citizen in 1956. The same young woman also inspired him to write a much shorter undated poem entitled "Awwal al-ijtiya” (The Beginning of Sweeping Annihilation) in which his passionate love is expressed in terms of a deep desire to be natural, to give vent to the powers within the self, and to remove what he considers to be the constraints of hypocritical, repressive sociocultural conventions in Arab society. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 International Journal of Middle East Studies Cambridge University Press 21/4(1989-11), 541-562 0020-7438 21:4<541 1989 21 MES https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743800032918 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743800032918 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Boullata Issa J. Institute of Islamic Studies Mcgill University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Journal of Middle East Studies Cambridge University Press 21/4(1989-11), 541-562 0020-7438 21:4<541 1989 21 MES CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge