| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 251 pages, 3 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Brill studies in Middle Eastern literatures,
0169-9903 ;
v. 25
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Brill studies in Middle Eastern literatures ; v. 25.
0169-9903
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-241) and index. |
| Contents |
Preface; Acknowledgments; A Note on Translation and Transliteration; Introduction; Chapter One: Contest as Ceremony: A Pre-Islamic Poetic Contest in Horse Description of Imru' al-Qays vs. 'Alqamahal-Fahl; Chapter Two: Remedy and Resolution: Bees and Honey-Gathering in Two Hudhali Odes; Chapter Three: Reality and Reverie: Wine and Ekphrasis in the 'Abbasid Poetry of Abu Nuwas and al-Buhturi; Chapter Four: Sensibility and Synaesthesia: Ibn al-Rumi's Singing Slave-Girl; Chapter Five: Poetry and Portraiture: A Double Portrait in a Panegyric; Conclusion; Appendix of Arabic Texts. |
| Summary |
This work deals with "wasf" or description which is one of the salient characteristics of the "qasidah" (classical Arabic poetry) tradition. It examines descriptive passages in a selected group of Arabic "qasidah" from different ages, with the motifs of horses, and bees and honey-gathering. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English and Arabic. |
| Subject |
Arabic poetry -- History and criticism.
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Arabic poetry. |
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Ekphrasis.
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Ekphrasis. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sumi, Akiko Motoyoshi. Description in classical Arabic poetry. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004 9004129227 (DLC) 2003057806 (OCoLC)52594695 |
| ISBN |
1417510471 (electronic book) |
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9781417510474 (electronic book) |
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9047401875 |
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9789047401872 |
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9004129227 |
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9789004129221 |
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