Title Making the great Book of songs : compilation and the author's craft in Abū l-Faraj al-Iṛbahānī's Kitāb al-aghānī / Hilary Kilpatrick.

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Description	1 online resource (xi, 435 pages).
	text file
Series	RoutledgeCurzon studies in Arabic and Middle-Eastern literature
	RoutledgeCurzon studies in Arabic and Middle-Eastern literatures.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	1. Modern research on the Kitāb al-aghānī -- 2. Abū l-Faraj's life, times and works -- 3. Abū l-Faraj on songs and singers -- 4. Abū l-Faraj on poetry and poets -- 5. Abū l-Faraj on prose, akhbār and the arrangement of material -- 6. Articles on songs, events and relationships -- 7. Articles on personalities -- 8. Connections between articles : the common fund of material -- 9. The framework of introductory songs : ordering the articles.
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Subject	Abū l-Faraj al-Iṛbahānī, 897 or 898-967. Kitāb al-aghānī.
	Islamic Empire -- Intellectual life.
	Islamic Empire.
	Intellectual life.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Kilpatrick, Hilary. Making the great Book of songs. New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003 (DLC) 2002036789
ISBN	0203220617 (electronic book)
	9780203220610 (electronic book)
	0700717013 (Cloth)