The Seven Poems Suspended from the Temple at Mecca

ISBN-13: 9781931956802 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 268 str.

F. Johnson

Opis

A collection of seven pre-Islamic Arabic poems, the Mullaqat form the most celebrated forms of poetry, and "the place assigned to them by Arab literary men has not been without a certain overshadowing effect on western criticism in its turn.." A tool for students of Arabic literature, this book gives a literal translation of these poems with a commentary.