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| Document Type: | Article of a journal |
| Title: | Voice and gender in classical Arabic adab : three passages from Ahmad Tayfur's "Instances of the eloquence of women" / Nancy N. Roberts |
| Author: | Roberts, Nancy R. |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | This translation was among the winners of the 1991 AATA translation contest. |
| Summary: | Includes annotated translations of three passages from a 9th cent. compilation of historical anecdotes by Ahmad ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur. |
| Author as Subject: | Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur, Ahmad, 819 or 20-893 |
| Descriptors: | Belles-lettres Translation, belles-lettres Women and eloquence Anecdotes Belles-lettres -- Blood vengeance Short lyric poem Oration |
| Source: | al-'Arabiyya. 25 (1992), p. 51-72 |
| Source Type: | Serial |
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