Description |
1 online resource (xv, 517 pages) : map |
Series |
The Cambridge history of Arabic literature |
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Cambridge history of Arabic literature.
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Contents |
The ʻAbbasid Caliphate: a historical introduction / H.N. Kennedy -- Adab and the concept of belles-lettres / S.A. Bonebakker -- Shuʻūbiyyah in Arabic literature / H.T. Norris -- Ibn al-Muqaffaʻ and early ʻAbbasid prose / J.D. Latham -- Al-Jāḥiẓ / C. Pellat -- Al-Ṣaḥib Ibn ʻAbbād / C. Pellat -- Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī / M. Bergé -- Al-Hamadhānī, al-Ḥarīrī and the maqāmāt genre / A.F.L. Beeston -- Fables and legends / H.T. Norris -- ʻAbbasid poetry and its antecedents / M.M. Badawi -- Hunting poetry (ṭardiyjāt) / G. Rex Smith -- Political poetry / R. Rubinacci -- Love poetry (ghazal) / A. Hamori -- Wine poetry (khamriyyāt) / F. Harb -- Mystical poetry / M. Lings -- Ascetic poetry (zuhdiyyāt) / A. Hamori -- Bashshār b. Burd, Abū ʼl-ʻAtāhiyah and Abū Nuwās / G. Schoeler -- Al-Mutanabbī / A. Hamori -- Abū Firās al-Ḥamdānī / Abdullah El Tayib -- Abū ʼl-ʻAlāʼ al-Maʻarrī / ʻAʼishah ʻAbd al-Rahman -- Literary criticism / K. Abu Deeb -- Ibn al-Muʻtazz and Kitāb al-Badīʻ / S.A. Bonebakker -- Regional literature: Egypt / S.M. Ayyad -- Regional literature: the Yemen / A. El-Shami and R.B. Serjeant -- Appendix: Table of metres -- Bibliography |
Summary |
This volume covers the artistic prose and poetry produced in the heartland and provinces of the 'Abbasid empire during the second great period of Arabic literature, from the mid-8th to the 13th centuries AD. Authors are quoted in English translation where possible and literary techniques explained |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 471-493) and index |
Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
SUBJECT |
Abbassides (dynastie) ram |
Subject |
Arabic literature -- 750-1258 -- History and criticism
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Arabic literature
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Letterkunde.
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Arabisch.
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Littérature arabe -- 750-1258.
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Bray, Julia.
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LC no. |
89042575 |
ISBN |
9781139424905 |
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1139424904 |
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9781139424905 |
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1316023494 |
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9781316023495 |
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9780521088657 |
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0521088658 |
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