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Document Type:
Book
Title:
The Arabian epic : Heroic and oral story-telling. Volume 1: Introduction / M.C. Lyons.
Author:
Lyons, M.C. (Malcolm Cameron)
Publisher:
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, c1995.
Pages:
133 p.
Notes:
(c) Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge 1995.
Bibliographic Note:
Bibliography: p.141-144
Summary:
Describes the background and dimensions in which the heroic cycles are set.
Descriptors:
Fiction -- Tales
Fiction -- Tales
Fiction -- Tales -- Heroes
Fiction -- Tales --Narrative dimensions
Time and space
Women, love and marriage
Fiction -- Tales --Narrative settings
Fiction -- Tales --Narrative structure
Fiction -- Tales --Narrative agents
Sirat dhat al-Himma
Fiction -- Tales --Sayf ibn Dhi Yazan
Fiction -- Tales --Hamzat al-Pahlawan
Fiction -- Tales --al-Zir
Fiction -- Tales --al-Zahir Baybars
Fiction -- Tales --Bani Hilal
Fiction -- Tales --'Antara
Fiction -- Tales --Firuz Shah
Fiction -- Tales --'Ali al-Zaybaq
Series:
49
Location:
Oriental Inst., Oxford. OIL PJ7580 LYO
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