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| Document Type: | Book |
| Title: | Reorientations : Arabic and Persian poetry / edited by Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych. |
| Added Author: | Stetkevych, Suzanne Pinckney |
| Publisher: | Bloomington; Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1994. |
| Pages: | x, 269 p. |
| ISBN: | 0253354935 |
| Notes: | c1994 by Indiana University Press.Studies contain original translations of poems. |
| Contents: | Pre-Islamic panegyric and the poetics of redemption: Mufaddaliyah 119 of 'Alqamah and Banat Su'ad of Ka'b ibn Zuhayr / Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych -- Toward an Arabic elegiac lexicon: the seven words of the nasib / Jaroslav Stetkevych -- Guises of the ghul: dissembling simile and semantic overflow in the classical Arabic nasib / Michael A. Sells -- No solace for the heart: the motif of the departing women in the pre-Islamic battle ode / Hassan el Banna Ezz el-Din -- The earliest demon lover: the tayf al-khayal in al-Mufaddaliyat / John Seybold -- Tangled words: towards a stylistics of Arabic mystical verse / Th. Emil Homerin -- The rise and fall of a Persian refrain: the Radif Atash u Ab / Franklin D. Lewis -- The allusive field of drunkeness: three Safavid-Moghul responses to a lyric by Baba Fighani / Paul E. Losensky. |
| Author as Subject: | Ka'b ibn Zuhayr, 7th cent.'Alqama ibn 'Abada, 6th cent. |
| Descriptors: | Translated poems |
| Location: | Bodleian, Oxford, BOD Bookstack: Arab. d.10381 |
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