The Vagaries of the Qasidah (Gibb Memorial Trust)
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ISBN: 0906094356 / Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, May 2015
A study of the tradition and practice of early Arabic poetry, this book provides an investigation of the multiple versions of early poems that exist in various Abbasid collections.
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A study of the tradition and practice of early Arabic poetry, this book provides an investigation of the multiple versions of early poems that exist in various AbCbasid collections. It offers a corrective to the more exaggerated claims concerning this poetry and revises some hitherto fundamental attitudes by advancing an individual philologically-driven vision of the period.
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