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245-0$a Qasida poetry in Islamic Asia and Africa : $b volume one, classical traditions and modern meanings / $c edited by Stefan Sperl and Christopher Shackle; consultant to the editors, Nicholas Awde.
700 $a Sperl, Stefan $a Shackle, C.
260 $a Leiden : $b Brill, $c 1996.
300 $a xxxiv, 532 p. : ill.
020$a 9004102957
500$a Includes index.$a Poems in multiple languages, parallel English translations.$a Contains a glossary of 74 technical terms.$a Contains biographies of contributors.
504$a Bibliography p.[487]-506
505$a The persistence of the qasida form / Salma Khadra Jayyusi -- The origins of the qasida form / Renate Jacobi -- Abbasid panegyric and the poetics of political allegiance: two poems of al-Mutanabbi on Kafur / Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych -- Qasida form and mystic path in thirteenth century Egypt: a poem by Ibn al-Farid / Stefan Sperl -- The A
650 $a Translated poems $a Poetry, Ancient -- $x Long poem $a Translated terms
912 $a Collection
440 $v v. 20
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