Gibb Literary Studies - 1: The Vagaries of the Qasidah
The Tradition and Practice of Early Arabic Poetry
- 304 pages
- 11 hours of reading
A study of the tradition and practice of early Arabic poetry, this book provides an investigation of the multiple versions of early poems that exist in various AbCbasid collections. It offers a corrective to the more exaggerated claims concerning this poetry and revises some hitherto fundamental attitudes by advancing an individual philologically-driven vision of the period.