Classical Arabic literature: a library of Arabic literature anthology
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Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York New York University Press ©2013
Schriftenreihe:Library of Arabic literature
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
A major achievement in the field of translation, this anthology presents a rich assortment of classical Arabic poems and literary prose, from pre-Islamic times until the 18th century, with short introductions to guide non-specialist students and informative endnotes and bibliography for advanced scholars. Like many pre-modern Arabic anthologies it aims at being both entertaining and informative. It ranges from the early Bedouin poems with their evocation of desert life to refined urban lyrical verse, from tender love poetry to sonorous eulogy or vicious lampoons, and from the heights of mystic
Cover; Letter from the General Editor; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Notes to the Introduction; Verse; A Qasidah; A Qasidah; A Qasidah; An Elegy (Marthiyah); Polemics in Verse: An Invective Qasidah; Love in the Desert: A Qasidah; An Umayyad Ghazal Poem, used as an Abbasid Song Text; An 'Udhri Ghazal attributed to Majnun Layla; An Umayyad Ghazal; A Love Poem; Anti-Arab, Pro-Iranian Lampoon (Hija'); A Modern (Muhdath) Ghazal Epigram; A Ghazal; Two wine Poems; A Lampooning Epigram (Hija'); A Ghazal Poem; Three Love Epigrams; A Poem of Asceticism (Zuhdiyyah)
Ibn al-Rumi: On His PoetryA Qasidah: A Party at 'Abd al-Malik ibn Salih al-Hashimi's; A Panegyric Qasidah; A Victory Ode: The Qasidah on Sayf al-Dawlah's Recapture of the Fortress of al-Hadath; Nature Poetry: Two Epigrams; Strophic Poem: A Muwashshahah; An Anonymous Muwashshahah from Spain; There Descended to You: A Philosophical Allegory; Five Epigrams on Death and Belief; Mystical Ghazal: A Poem; A Mystical Zajal; Two Elegies on the Death of his Concubine; A Zajal: An Elegy on the Elephant Marzuq; Rajaz; Early Rajaz; A Few Lines from the Poem of Proverbs; A Few Lines from The Thousand-liner
Light Verse: A Domestic Disaster"Didactic" Verse: From a Poem on How to Behave in Society; Prose; Examples of Early Rhymed Prose (Saj'); A Pre-Islamic Tale: The Princess on the Myrtle Leaf (Three Versions); How the Queen of Sheba Became Queen; Two Stories from Meadows of Gold; Lives of The Poets: al-Farazdaq Tells the Story of Imru' al-Qays and the Girls at the Pond; Bedouin Romance: The Unhappy Love Story of Qays and Lubna; A Parable: The Human Condition, or The Man in the Pit; Mirror for Princes (and Others): Passages from Right Conduct; Al-Jahiz on Flies and Other Things
Essayistic Prose: Al-Tawhidi on the Superiority of the ArabsHistory as Literature: Al-Amin and al-Ma'mun, the Sons of Harun al-Rashid; Moral Tales and Parables: Passages from The Epistles of the Sincere Brethren; Prose Narrative: Four Stories; The Isfahan Maqamah; The Debate of Pen and Sword; A Visit to Heaven and Hell; Poetics: Ibn Rashiq on the Definition and Structure of Poetry; Literary Criticism: From The Secrets of Eloquence; Popular Science: Two Chapters from the Encyclopedia of Animals
A Section from an Adab Encyclopedia: The Chapter on Stinginess from The Precious and Refined in Every Genre and KindA Fairytale: The Tale of the Forty Girls; Erotica: The Young Girl and the Dough Kneader, from The Old Man's Rejuvenation; Two Burlesque Stories from Brains Confounded; Lyrical Prose: A Visit to the Bath; Notes; Chronology; Glossary of Names and Terms; A; B; D; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; Q; R; S; T; U; W; Z; Bibliography; Further Reading; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; P; Q; R; S; T; U; W; Y; Z; About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute; About the Typefaces
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ISBN:0814745113
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