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| Document Type: | Chapter of a book |
| Title: | The earliest demon lover : the tayf al-khayal in al-Mufaddaliyat / Seybold, John. |
| Author: | Seybold, John |
| Pages: | p. 189-189 |
| Notes: | Includes translated poems by Charles James Lyall."This paper was first presented at the 17th annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA), Chicago, Illinois, November 4, 1983.Includes translated extracts form Sufi poetry and al-Mutannabi's poems |
| Summary: | Examines the Tayf al-khayal motif in poetry, specifically in the Mufaddaliyat poems. |
| Author as Subject: | al-Mufaddal al-Dabbi, d. af. 780Ibn Qutayba, 828-889al-Muraqqish al-Asghar, 6th cent.Dhu al-Rumma, Ghaylan ibn 'Uqba, 696-735 |
| Descriptors: | Poetry, Ancient Poetry, Ancient -- Anthologies -- Mufaddaliyat Poetry, Ancient -- Long poem Motifs Tayf al-khayal=Night visit by the beloved's phantom Poetry, Ancient -- Demon Etymology Travelling Opening verse Nasib Umayyad poets |
| Source: | Reorientations/Arabic and Persian poetry. (1994), p. 180-189 |
| Source Type: | Book |
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