Identification and Identity in Classical Arab Poetry (Gibb Memorial Trust Arabic Studies) - Hardcover

Lyons, M. C.

 
9780906094389: Identification and Identity in Classical Arab Poetry (Gibb Memorial Trust Arabic Studies)

Synopsis

In early Arabic poetry, poets mostly speak in the first person - a point which sets their tradition apart from most other civilisations. This study investigates the characteristic poetic roles found in the works of thirty seven poets dating from the pre-Islamic to the Abbasid period, to which are added specimens of Spanish Arabic lyric poetry and the popular poetry of Baghdad.

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About the Author

M.C. Lyons is a Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge, sometime Sir Thomas Adam's Professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge, and the author of The Poetic Vocabulary of Michel Trad, Saladin: The Politics of the Holy War and The Arabian Epic.

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