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Document Type:Chapter of a book
Title:Growth and structure of Arabic poetry, A.D. 500-1000 / G.E. von Grunebaum.
Author: Grunebaum, Gustave E. von (Gustave Edmund), 1909-1972
Notes:Appendix contains 12 translated specimens of poetry (no complete poems), from 11 poets, selected with a view to the needs of the non-specialist reader; translations by C.J. Lyall; R.A. Nicholson; Margaret Smith; D.S. Margoliouth
Author as Subject: al-Khalil ibn Ahmad, c.718-91Aws ibn Hajar, 6th cent.al-Khansa', d. after 644'Amr ibn Qami'a, 6th cent.Imru' al-Qays, 6th cent.al-A'sha, Maymun ibn Qays, d. ca. 629Abu Dhu'ayb al-Hudhali, Khuwaylid ibn Khalid, 7th cent.Ta'abbata Sharran, first half 6th cent.?al-Shanfara, d.c.550Abu Du'ad al-Iyadi, 6th cent.'Adi ibn Zayd, 6th cent.Tarafa ibn al-'Abd, mid-6th cent.'Abid ibn al-Abras, 6th cent.Labid ibn Rabi'a al-'Amiri, d.c.661al-Samaw'al, 6th cent.al-Farazdaq, c.640-728Jarir ibn 'Atiyya, c.653-729al-Akhtal, Ghiyath ibn Ghawth, ca. 640-ca. 710Dhu al-Rumma, Ghaylan ibn 'Uqba, 696-735 Marwan ibn Abi Hafsa, 721-797Muslim ibn al-Walid, c.748-823Abu 'Amr ibn al-'Ala', 684 or 687-771 or 774al-'Ajjaj, d.c.715Ru'ba ibn al-'Ajjaj, d.762Abu Tammam, c.805-845Aban ibn 'Abd al-Hamid al-Lahiqi, d.c.815-16Ibn al-Mu'tazz, 861-998Caliph al-Mu'tadid, 892-902Abu al-'Atahiya, Isma'il ibn al-Qasim, 747 or 8-826'Umar ibn Abi Rabi'a, c.643-719Qays ibn Dharih, c.626-89'Urwa ibn Hizam, d.650 or later'Abbas ibn al-Ahnaf d.803 or after 808?Harun al-Rashid, 763-809Bashshar ibn Burd, d. 783 or 4Caliph al-Mahdi, 775-785al-Sayyid al-Himyari, 723-89Abu Nuwas, c.755-c.813Rabi'a al-'Adawiyya, d.801al-Hallaj, Abu al-Mughith al-Husayn ibn Mansur, 857-922al-Mutanabbi, c.915-65al-Walid ibn Yazid, 8th cent.Ibn al-Rumi, 836-96'Abd al-Rahman III, 912-961Ibn 'Abd Rabbih, 860-940al-Sanawbari, b. before 888 d.945-6al-Khuza'i, Di'bil ibn ʻAli, 765 or 6-860 or 61Ibn Sallam al-Jumahi, 756-846 or 847Ibn Qutayba, 828-89Abu al-Faraj al-Isbahani, 897-c.972al-Amidi, Abu al-Qasim, d.987al-Buhturi, al-Walid ibn 'Ubayd, ca. 821-897 or 8al-Jahiz, c.776 or 7-868 or 9al-Mubarrad, c.815-98 or 899Qudama ibn Ja'far, d.948
Descriptors: Poetry, Ancient Biography Translated terms Belles-lettres Poetry, Ancient -- Persian influence Persian metres Poets, Ancient Rhymed prose Poetry, Ancient -- Artifice Poetry, Ancient --Polemics Poets, Knowledgable Elegy Lamenting song Poetry, Ancient -- Long poem Nasib Panegyric Aphorism Jahiliya Mu'allaqat Poetry, Ancient -- Hudhali Poets, Ancient -- Muhammad Qur'an Philology Poetry, Ancient -- Flytings Litterateurs Poetry, Ancient -- Short poem Anthologies Poetry -- Paired rhymes Fiction -- Tales --Kalila wa Dimna Folk songs Poetry, Strophic Short poem, Popular Fiction -- Tales --Kan wa-kan 'Umayyad dynasty Zuhdiyat poems Diwan al-shi'r=poetry department Hunting poems Wine poems 'Ammuriya conquest Poetry, Ancient -- Description Kitab al-Aghani -- Biography Kitab al-Aghani ParallelismMuslim Poetry, Spanish -- Language, Badawi
Source: The Arab heritage. (1963), p. 121-141
Source Type: Book
 

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