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| Document Type: | Book |
| Title: | Qasida poetry in Islamic Asia and Africa : volume one, classical traditions and modern meanings / edited by Stefan Sperl and Christopher Shackle; consultant to the editors, Nicholas Awde. |
| Added Author: | Sperl, Stefan Shackle, C. |
| Publisher: | Leiden : Brill, 1996. |
| Pages: | xxxiv, 532 p. : ill. |
| ISBN: | 9004102957 |
| Notes: | Includes index.Poems in multiple languages, parallel English translations.Contains a glossary of 74 technical terms.Contains biographies of contributors. |
| Bibliographic Note: | Bibliography p.[487]-506 |
| Contents: | The persistence of the qasida form / Salma Khadra Jayyusi -- The origins of the qasida form / Renate Jacobi -- Abbasid panegyric and the poetics of political allegiance: two poems of al-Mutanabbi on Kafur / Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych -- Qasida form and mystic path in thirteenth century Egypt: a poem by Ibn al-Farid / Stefan Sperl -- The Arabic qasida in West Africa: forms, themes and contexts / John Hunwick -- The transformation of the qasida form in modern Arabic poetry / Sabry Hafez --The Hebrew qasida in Spain / Raymond P. Scheindlin -- Poetic microcosms: the Persian qasida to the end of the twelfth century / Julie Scott Meisami -- Poetic tradition and social change: the Persian qasida in post-Mongol Iran / Michael Glunz -- Settings of panegyric: the secular qasida in Mughal and British India / Christopher Shackle -- Preservation and presentation : continuity and creativity in the contemporary Persian qasida / Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak -- Speaking of power: the 'Ottoman kaside' / Walter G. Andrews -- Across cha |
| Descriptors: | Translated poems Poetry, Ancient -- Long poem Translated terms |
| Source Type: | Collection |
| Series: | v. 20 |
| Location: | Oriental Inst., Oxford. OIL Main Libr. PJ7541 Spe |
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