Six early Arab poets : new edition and concordance ; based on W. Ahlwardt's The divans of the six ancient Arabic poets = Kitab al-'Iqd al-thamin fi dawawin al-shu'ara' al-sittah al- Jahiliyin

Edited with an Introduction by Professor Albert Arazi and Dr. Salman Masalha

Published by Jerusalem : Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1999

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1357 pages in Arabic + 21 page introduction in English. 'The present volume consists of a concordance of al-'Iqd al-Thamin fi Dawawin al-Shu'ara' al-Sitta al-Jahiliyyin, in the edition of William Ahlwardt. It also contains a preface in Arabic and English, a new critical edition with numerous emendations of Ahlwardt's text, and a full concordance of the poetry of Imru' al-Qays, Zuhayr b. Abi Sulma, Tarafa b. al-'Abd, 'Alqama b. 'Abada al-Fahhl, 'Antara b. Shaddad, al-Nabigha al-Dhubyani and a few poems by four minor poets. The book holds almost 1,400 pages and contains more than 33,000 entries.' This book includes the complete text of the poems as well as the concordance.

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• Title: Six early Arab poets : new edition and concordance ; based on W. Ahlwardt's The divans of the six ancient Arabic poets = Kitab al-'Iqd al-thamin fi dawawin al-shu'ara' al-sittah al- Jahiliyin
• Publisher: Jerusalem : Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Publication Date: 1999
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New
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