Classical Arabic Literature: A Library Of Arabic Literature Anthology [EPUB]

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• Series: Library of Arabic literature

• Year: 2,013

• City: New York

• Pages: xxviii, 468 pages ; 24 cm

• Language: English

• Identifier: 9780814770276,9780814738269,9780814745113,9780814771204,0814738265,0814745113,0814770274,0814771203

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• Tags: Arabic literature Arabisch Literatur Translations Arabic literature -- Translations into English

• Toc: Letter from the general editor / Phillip F. Kennedy -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Notes to Introduction. -- Verse: A Qaṣīdah / 'Abīd ibn al-Abraṣ -- A Qaṣīdah / 'Alqamah ibn 'Abadah -- A Qaṣīdah / al-Muthaqqib al-'Abdī -- An Elegy (Marthiyah) / al-Khansā' -- Polemics in Verse: An Invective Qaṣīdah / al-Akhṭal -- Love in the Desert: A Qaṣīdah / Dhū l-Rummah -- An Umayyad Ghazal Poem, used as an Abbasid Song Text -- An 'Udhrī Ghazal attributed to Majnūn Laylā -- An Umayyad Ghazal / 'Umar ibn Abī Rabī 'ah -- A Love Poem / Umm Khālid -- Anti-Arab, Pro-Iranian Lampoon (Hijā') / Bashshār ibn Burd -- A Modern (Muhdath) Ghazal Epigram / Abū Nuwās -- A Ghazal: On a Boy Called 'Alī / Abū Nuwās -- Two Wine Poems / Abū Nuwās -- A Lampooning Epigram (Hijā') / Abū Nuwās -- A Ghazal Poem / al-'Abbās ibn al-Aḥnaf -- Three Love Epigrams / 'Ulayyah bint al-Mahdī -- A Poem of Asceticism (Zuhdiyyah) / Abū l-'Atāhiyah -- Ibn al Rūmī: On His Poetry -- A Qaṣīdah: A Party at 'Abd al-Malik ibn ṣāliḥ al-Hāshimī's / Ibn al-Rūmī -- A Panegyric Qaṣīdah / al-Buḥturī -- A Victory Ode: The Qaṣīdah on Sayf al-Dawlah's Recapture of the Fortress of al-ḥadath / al-Mutanabbī -- Nature Poetry: Two Epigrams / Ibn Khafājah -- Strophic Poem: A Muwashshaḥah / al-A 'mā al-Tuṭīlī -- An Anonym