The Vagaries of the Qasidah

ISBN-13: 9780906094358 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 304 str.

Montgomery, James

Opis

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. 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.