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| Document Type: | Book |
| Title: | An introduction to history: the Muqaddimah / Ibn Khaldun; translated from the Arabic by Franz Rosenthal; abridged and edited by N.J. Dawood. |
| Author: | Ibn Khaldun, 1332-1406 |
| Added Author: | Rosenthal, Franz, 1914-2003Dawood, N.J., |
| Publisher: | London : Routledge and Kegan Paul, in association with Secker and Warburg, 1967. |
| Pages: | xiv, 465 p. |
| Notes: | (c) 1967 by Bollingen Foundation. |
| Contents: | Chapter 6 includes the following headings about poetry: The division of speech into poetry and prose and the ability to write both good poetry and prose is only very rarely found together in one person; The craft of poetry and the way of learning it; Poetry and prose work with words and not with ideas; The linguistic habit is obtained by much memorizing ...; An explanation of the meaning of natural and contrived speech. How contrived speech may be either good or deficient; People of rank are above cultivating poetry; Contemporary Arabic poetry, Bedouin and Urban; The Spanish muwashshah and zajal. |
| Author as Subject: | Ibn Khaldun, 1332-1406 |
| Descriptors: | Poetry, Ancient Poetry -- Craft Muwashshah Zajal Biography |
| Series: | 43 |
| Location: | Bodleian, Oxford. BOD Bookstack BOD 2223 e.46 |
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