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911 | Book |
245 | -0$a Qasida poetry in Islamic Asia and Africa : $b volume two: Eulogy's bounty, meaning's abundance: an anthology / $c edited by Stefan Sperl, Christopher Shackle; consultant to the editors, Nicholas Awde. |
700 | $a Sperl, Stefan $a Shackle, C. |
260 | $a Leiden ; $a New York : $b Brill, $c 1996. |
300 | $a xiv, 523 p. |
500 | $a (c) 1996 by E.J. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands$a Includes 12 translated poems with parallel Arabic/English text$a Includes glossary and indexes. |
504 | $a Bibliography: p.477-481. |
505 | $a Introduction / Stefan Sperl and Christopher Shackle ( "The evolution of the qasida" ; "Determinants of the qasida genre") -- Qasidas: Self-Praise and remembrance of youth/ 'Abid b. al-Abras (sixth century), translated by Renate Jacobi -- In praise of al-Qa'qa' b. Ma'bad / al-Musayyab b. 'Alas (sixth century), translated by Renate Jacobi -- In praise of al-Nu'man III Abu Qabus / al-Nabigha al-Dhubyani (sixth century, translated by Renate Jacobi -- In praise of an Abbasid Caliph / Abu Tammam (d.845), translated by Julia Ashtiany -- In praise of himself / al-Mutanabbi (d.965), translated by Salma K. Jayyusi and Christopher Middleton -- In praise of Kafur / al-Mutanabbi (d.965), translated by Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych -- Invective against Kafur / al-Mutanabbi (d.965), translated by Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych -- On Sufi love / Ibn al-Farid (d.1235), translated by Stefan Sperl -- Elegy on the lost cities of al-Andalus / al-Rundi (d.1285), translated by Salma K. Jayyusi and Christopher Middleton -- Elegy for Ab |
650 | $a Translated terms $a Poetry, Ancient -- $x Long poem |
440 | $v XX/II |
852 | Oriental Inst., Oxford. OIL PJ 7641 SPE |
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