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| Document Type: | Book |
| Title: | Arabic literature in the post-classical period / edited by Roger Allen and D.S. Richards |
| Added Author: | Allen, Roger M.A. Richards, D.S. edt |
| Publisher: | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006 |
| Pages: | x, 481 p. |
| Language: | English |
| ISBN: | 0521771609 |
| Notes: | Includes index.Notes on contributors -- List of abbreviations. |
| Bibliographic Note: | Bibliography: p. 419-458 |
| Contents: | The post-classical period: parameters and preliminaries / Roger Allen -- Elite poetry -- Arabic poetry in the post-classical age / Salma Khadra Jayyusi -- Poetic creativity in the sixteenth-eighteenth centuries / Muhammad Lutfi al-Yousfi -- Arabic religious poetry, 1200--1800 / Th. Emil Homerin -- The role of the pre-modern: the generic characteristics of the band / Abdallah Ibrahim -- Elite prose -- Pre-modern belletrist prose / Muhsin al-Musawi -- The essay and debate (al-risala, al-munaz.ara) / Jaakko Hameen-Anttilla -- The maqama / Devin Stewart -- Mamluk history and historians / Robert Irwin -- Historiography in Arabic during the Ottoman period / Michael Winter -- Popular poetry -- Popular poetry in the post-classical period, 1150-1850 A.D. -- Margaret Larkin -- Popular prose -- Popular prose in the post-classical period / Dwight Reynolds -- A thousand and one nights: a history of the text and its reception / Dwight Reynolds -- Sirat Antar ibn Shaddad / Remke Kruk -- Sirat Bani Hilal / Dwight Reynolds -- |
| Descriptors: | Poetry, Religious Belles-lettres Maqama Poetry, Popular Literature -- History Criticism -- History |
| Location: | American University of Beirut- Jafet Library892.709:A658a:c.1 |
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