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Author Kilpatrick, Hilary

Title Making the great Book of songs : compilation and the author's craft in Abū l-Faraj al-Iṣbahānī's Kitāb al-aghānī / Hilary Kilpatrick
Published New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 435 pages)
Series RoutledgeCurzon studies in Arabic and Middle-Eastern literature
RoutledgeCurzon studies in Arabic and Middle-Eastern literatures.
Contents 1. Modern research on the Kitāb al-aghānī -- 2. Abū l-Faraj's life, times and works -- 3. Abū l-Faraj on songs and singers -- 4. Abū l-Faraj on poetry and poets -- 5. Abū l-Faraj on prose, akhbār and the arrangement of material -- 6. Articles on songs, events and relationships -- 7. Articles on personalities -- 8. Connections between articles : the common fund of material -- 9. The framework of introductory songs : ordering the articles
Summary "This is the first systematic literary study of one of the masterpieces of classical Arabic literature, the tenth century Kitab al-aghani (The Book of Songs) by Abu l-Faraj al-Isbahani. Until now, the 24 volume Book of Songs has been regarded as a rather chaotic but priceless mine of information about classical Arabic music, literature and culture. This book approaches it as a work of literature in its own right, with its own internal logic and coherence. The study also consistently integrates the musical component into the analysis and proposes a reading of the work in which individual anecdotes and poems are related to the wider context, enhancing their meaning."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Abū l-Faraj al-Iṣbahānī, 897 or 898-967. Kitāb al-aghānī
LITERARY CRITICISM -- African.
Intellectual life
SUBJECT Islamic Empire -- Intellectual life
Subject Islamic Empire
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2002036789
ISBN 0203220617
9780203220610
9780700717019
0700717013
9786610314744
6610314748
1280314745
9781280314742
1135787948
9781135787943