Identification and Identity in Classical Arab Poetry (Gibb Memorial Trust Arabic Studies)

M. C. Lyons

ISBN 10: 0906094380 / ISBN 13: 9780906094389

Published by Gibb Memorial Trust 1999-01-31, 1999

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Identification and Identity in Classical Arab Poetry (Gibb Memorial Trust Arabic Studies)
• Publisher: Gibb Memorial Trust 1999-01-31
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0906094380
• ISBN 13: 9780906094389
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

In early Arabic poetry, poets mostly speak in the first person – a point which sets their tradition apart from most other civilisations. This study investigates the characteristic poetic roles found in the works of thirty seven poets dating from the pre-Islamic to the Abbasid period, to which are added specimens of Spanish Arabic lyric poetry and the popular poetry of Baghdad.

About the Author

M. C. Lyons is Emeritus Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic Literature and Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Professor Lyons is the founding editor of the Journal of Arabic Literature and author, editor and translator of several books, the most significant being the three-volume The Arabian Epic (CUP, 1995) and the three-volume edition of The Arabian Nights (Penguin Books, 2008).