Wschód muzułmański w literaturze polskiej. Idee i obrazy

Abstract

The present volume brings together materials from the National Comparative Conference “The Muslim East in Polish Literature. Ideas and Images”, which took place in Białystok, November 20-21, 2015 under the auspices of the Polish Association of Comparative Literature. The conference was organized by the Chair in Philological Studies “East – West”, the Faculty of Philology at the University of Białystok, the Podlasian Section of the Union of Polish Tatars, and the Łukasz Górnicki Library of Podlasie in Białystok. During the conference the following issues were discussed: • Oriental inspirations in Polish literature from the Middle Ages to the present • Travels of Polish writers to Muslim countries: their testimonies, diagnoses, fascinations • Literary images of Central Asia, the Crimea, the Volga region – Idel-Ural, the Middle East and North Africa (in Polish literature) • Oriental literary genres (Ruba’i/rubai’jjat, qasida, ghazal, maqāma, etc.) and their transformation on the Polish soil • Sarmatism, the dialogue of the Enlightenment with the Orient, “the Islamic aspects” of Romanticism and the Young Poland Movement • Polish literature’s relation to the literature of Muslim nations (Tatar, Crimean Tatar, Arabic, Turkish, Persian literature, etc.) • Classics of oriental literature in translations by Polish poets (Rumi – Miciński, Çoban-zade – Chazbijewicz and others) • Tatar literature of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and contemporary Polish-Tatar literature (from the perspective of history, literary theory, textual, cultural and sociological studies, etc.) •The folklore of Polish Tatars (non-canonical prayers, ritual invocations, spells, fairy tales and legends) • Journalism and the publishing movement of Polish Tatars The session “The Muslim East in Polish literature. Ideas and images” was held with the financial support of the Municipal Office in Białystok. The honorary patrons of the conference were: the Marshal of the Podlaskie Voivodeship and the Mayor of Białystok. The present volume is published with the financial support of the Marshal’s Office in Białystok. The book has been edited by Grzegorz Czerwiński, PhD, a literary scholar, specialist in the theory of literature and comparative literature, and Artur Konopacki, PhD, a historian and educator, whose research focuses on Tatar history in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. It has been reviewed by Irena Jokiel (Professor of Polish philology) and Grażyna Zając (Professor of Turkology), and published in the scholarly literary series “Colloquia Orientalia Bialostocensia".