Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych is Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at Indiana University. Her books include The Poetics of Islamic Legitimacy: Myth, Gender and Ceremony in the Classical Arabic Ode; Early Islamic Poetry and Poetics: The Formation of the Classical Islamic World; and The Mantle Odes: Arabic Praise Poems to the Prophet Muhammad.
"In this analysis of the great Arabic language classics, the
pre-Islamic ode, or qasidah, Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych ventures
into such various fields as anthropology, religion, gender studies,
history, philology, and folklore to augment her effectiveness as a
literary theorist. Combining insights gleaned using the tools of
these many disciplines, she has produced a brilliantly original and
thought provoking analysis. . . . By giving voice to the mute
immortals, Stetkevych has made these pre-Islamic masterworks
accessible to a wider readership. In shedding much-needed light on
these poems, the ethos of which has suffused the Arabic literary
tradition since the beginning of Islam, Stetkevych has opened a
door to understanding the Arab world." American Anthropologist"
"The Mute Immortals Speak will be of interest to anyone seriously
interested in Islam. It should also engage a wide,
interdisciplinary audience through its demonstration that at the
heart of the qasidah and its satellite genres is a central human
dilemma involving human identity, conflict, belonging, and
community." International Journal of Middle East Studies "
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