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| Document Type: | Book |
| Title: | Arabicaus felix : luminosus Britannicus: essays in honour of A.F.L. Beeston on his eightieth birthday / edited by Alan Jones. |
| Added Author: | Jones, Alan, 1933- |
| Publisher: | Reading : Ithaca Press, Reading, for the Board of the Faculty of Oriental Studies, Oxford University, 1991. |
| Pages: | vi, 239 p. |
| Language: | English |
| ISBN: | 0863721451 |
| Notes: | (c) Alan Jones 1991 |
| Contents: | A latin lament on the prevalence of Arabic in ninth century Islamic Cordoba / David J. Wasserstein -- The tribes of Hashid wa-Bakil as historical and geographical entities / Paul Dresch -- The origins of the Yemenite hijra / W.F. Madelung -- Tihamah notes / R.B. Serjeant -- Final tadmin in the poems of Abu Nuwas / Alan Jones -- Labid, al-Nabigha, al-Akhtal and the Orynx / Philip F. Kennedy / The elegy on the death of Abu Shuja' Fatik by al-Mutanabbi / J. Derek Latham -- Tanukhi's al-Faraj ba'd al-shidda as a literary source / Julia Ashtiany -- Ghars al-Ni'ma b. Hilal al-Sabi's Kitab al-hafawat al-nadira and Buyid history / C.E. Bosworth -- The Rasa'il of Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadhani / D.S. Richards -- The particle hatta, God's knowledge of what we shall do, and the Caliph 'Umar b. 'Abdal'aziz / Fritz Zimmermann -- Mahmud Diyab's contribution to modern Egyptian drama / M.M. Badawi -- Romantic poetry and the tradition: the case of Ibrahim Nagi / Robin Ostle -- An Arabic nobodadddy: the Gebelawi of Naguib Mahfouz |
| Author as Subject: | Beeston, A.F.L. (Alfred Felix Landon) al-Mutanabbi, ca. 915-965Labid, d. ca. 661al-Nabigha al-Dhubyani, 6th cent.al-Akhtal, Ghiyath ibn Ghawth, ca. 640-ca. 710 |
| Descriptors: | Poetry, Ancient Modern poetry Literature --History Drama History |
| Series: | 11 |
| Location: | Oriental Inst., Oxford. OIL BP15 BEE |
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