Considerazioni teoriche e critiche sull’imitazione parodica (al-Mu‘āraḍa al-hazliyya) in epoca mamelucca

Classical and modern studies of Arabic literature have paid only modest attention to the parodic imitations of poems (al-mu‘āraḍa al-hazliyya). These were often ascribed to the rhetorical technique of taḍmīn without taking into due consideration, as was the case for “serious” reproductions, the semantic, historical and dialectical interaction between the two texts, their authors and readers. The present article will attempt to trace the theoretical and critical notions of this literary practice in the Arab tradition, particularly focusing our interest on the Mamlūk one which tended to acknowledge and confer upon it the dignity of a literary genre.