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Classical Arabic Literature : A Library of Arabic Literature Anthology /
This anthology presents an assortment of classical Arabic poems and literary prose, from pre-Islamic times until the 18th century, with short introductions to guide non-specialist readers and informative endnotes and bibliography for advanced scholars. Like many pre-modern Arabic anthologies, it aim...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Arabic |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2013]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A Qasidah
- A Qasidah
- A Qasidah
- An Elegy (Marthiyah)
- Polemics in Verse: An Invective Qasidah
- Love in the Desert: A Qasidah
- An Umayyad Ghazal Poem, used as an Abbasid Song Text
- An 'Udhri Ghazal attributed to Majnun Layla
- An Umayyad Ghazal
- A Love Poem
- Anti-Arab, Pro-Iranian Lampoon (Hija')
- A Modern (Muhdath) Ghazal Epigram
- A Ghazal
- Two wine Poems
- A Lampooning Epigram (Hija')
- A Ghazal Poem
- Three Love Epigrams
- A Poem of Asceticism (Zuhdiyyah)
- Ibn al-Rumi: On His Poetry - A Qasidah: A Party at 'Abd al-Malik ibn Salih al-Hashimi's
- A Panegyric Qasidah
- A Victory Ode: The Qasidah on Sayf al-Dawlah's Recapture of the Fortress of al-Hadath
- Nature Poetry: Two Epigrams
- Strophic Poem: A Muwashshahah
- An Anonymous Muwashshahah from Spain
- There Descended to You: A Philosophical Allegory
- Five Epigrams on Death and Belief
- Mystical Ghazal: A Poem
- A Mystical Zajal
- Two Elegies on the Death of his Concubine
- A Zajal: An Elegy on the Elephant Marzuq
- Rajaz
- Early Rajaz
- A Few Lines from the Poem of Proverbs
- A Few Lines from The Thousand-liner
- Light Verse: A Domestic Disaster"Didactic" Verse: From a Poem on How to Behave in Society
- Examples of Early Rhymed Prose (Saj')
- A Pre-Islamic Tale: The Princess on the Myrtle Leaf (Three Versions)
- How the Queen of Sheba Became Queen
- Two Stories from Meadows of Gold
- Lives of The Poets: al-Farazdaq Tells the Story of Imru' al-Qays and the Girls at the Pond
- Bedouin Romance: The Unhappy Love Story of Qays and Lubna
- A Parable: The Human Condition, or The Man in the Pit
- Mirror for Princes (and Others): Passages from Right Conduct
- Al-Jahiz on Flies and Other Things
- Essayistic Prose: Al-Tawhidi on the Superiority of the Arabs
- History as Literature: Al-Amin and al-Ma'mun, the Sons of Harun al-Rashid
- Moral Tales and Parables: Passages from The Epistles of the Sincere Brethren
- Prose Narrative: Four Stories
- The Isfahan Maqamah
- The Debate of Pen and Sword
- A Visit to Heaven and Hell
- Poetics: Ibn Rashiq on the Definition and Structure of Poetry
- Literary Criticism: From The Secrets of Eloquence
- Popular Science: Two Chapters from the Encyclopedia of Animals
- A Section from an Adab Encyclopedia: The Chapter on Stinginess from The Precious and Refined in Every Genre and KindA Fairytale: The Tale of the Forty Girls
- Erotica: The Young Girl and the Dough Kneader, from The Old Man's Rejuvenation
- Two Burlesque Stories from Brains Confounded
- Lyrical Prose: A Visit to the Bath
- Notes
- Chronology
- Glossary of Names and Terms.