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'Abbasid belles-lettres / edited by Julia Ashtiany ... [et al.].
- Title
- 'Abbasid belles-lettres / edited by Julia Ashtiany ... [et al.].
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Bray, Julia
- Description
- xv, 517 p. : map; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Cambridge history of Arabic literature
- Uniform Title
- Cambridge history of Arabic literature.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 471 - 493) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The Abbasid caliphate : a historical introduction / H.N. Kennedy -- Adab and the concept of belles-lettres / S.A. Bonebakker -- Shuūbiyyah in Arabic literature / H.T. Norris -- Ibn al-Muqaffa and early Abbasid prose / J.D. Latham -- Al-Jāḥiẓ / C. Pellat -- Al-Ṣāḥib Ibn Abbād/ C. Pellat -- Abū Hayyān al-Tawḥīdī / M. Bergé -- Al-Hamadhānī, al-Harīrī and the maqāmāt genre / A.F.L. Beeston -- Fables and legends / H.T. Norris -- Abbasid poetry and its antecedents / M.M. Badawi -- Hunting poetry (ṭardiyyāt) / G. Rex Smith -- Political poetry / R. Rubinacci -- Love poetry (ghazal) / A. Hamori -- Wine poetry (khamriyyāt) / F. Harb -- Mystical poetry / M. Lings -- Ascetic poetry (zuhdiyyāt) / A. Hamori.
- Bashār b. Burd, Abū l- Atāhiyah and Abū Nuwās / G. Schoeler -- Al-Mutanabbī / A. Hamori -- Abū Firās al-Ḥamdānī / Abdullah el Tayib -- Abū l- Alā al-Maarrī / Aishah Abd al-Rahman -- Literary criticism / K. Abu Deeb -- Ibn al-Mutazz and Kitāb al-Badi / S.A. Bonebakker -- Regional literature : Egypt / S.M. Ayyad -- Regional literature : the Yemen / A. el-Shami.
- ISBN
- 9780521088657 (pbk.)
- 0521088658 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 237884202
- SCSB-12446403
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library