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Document Type:Book
Title:Pre-Islamic panegyric and the poetics of redemption : Mufaddaliyah 119 of 'Alqamah and Banat Su'ad of Ka'b ibn Zuhayr / Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych.
Author: Stetkevych, Suzanne Pinckney
Notes:Includes 2 translated poems.Includes appendix of poems in Arabic.
Summary:Study of the pre-islamic panegyric.
Author as Subject: Ibn Qutayba, 828-889'Alqama ibn 'Abada, 6th cent.Ka'b ibn Zuhayr, 7th cent.Hammad al-Rawiya, 695-772al-Jumahi, ibn Sallam, 756-846 or 847al-Anbari, Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn al-Qasim, 885-940Ta'abbata Sharran, first half 6th cent.?al-Mufaddal ibn Muhammad al-Dabbi, d. af. 780Imru'al-Qays, 6th cent.Labid ibn Rabi'a al-'Amiri, d. ca. 661al-Sukkari, 827-88 or 903Zuhayar ibn Abi Sulma, d. 609
Descriptors: Translated poems Translated terms Poetry, Ancient -- Long poem Panegyric Nasib Travelling al-Burda poem Allusion Rain prayer Elegy Fakhr=boast EventsCommentary Poetry, Ancient --
Source: Reorientations / Arabic and Persian poetry. (1994), p. 1-57
Source Type: Book
 

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