| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 149 pages) |
| Contents |
On Generosity; On Life; On Time and Days; On Gray Hair and Youth; On The Length of a Lover's Night; On Love Induced Emaciation; On Love; On Soul-Melting Love; On Ṣūfī Love; On the Phantom of the Beloved; On Wine and Drinking; On Beauty; On Soft Skin; On Eyes and Tears; Carpe Diem; On Poetry and Meaning; On Grief; On Awe; On Separation; On Jealousy; On Homeleaving; On Longing for First Love, First Home; On Noble Descent; On Transcendent Qualities; On Death Transformed; On Battle, Battlefields, and Swords; On Flora, Fauna, and Nature; On Physical Attributes; Hyperbolic Miscellany |
| Summary |
This bilingual anthology presents the best of Arabic classical poetry's musings over the many faceted states of the human condition, among them love, generosity, life, time, youth, beauty, ecstasy, longing, wine, death and plenty more. Mansour Ajami's selection of topical verses and poems is guided by what was deemed best in its genre by the consensus of the great classical Arab literary critics and theoreticians.MANSOUR AJAMI is a writer and translator of books on Arabic poetry. He holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in Arabic Literature and Philosophy from the American University of Beirut and a PhD in Arabic Literature from Columbia University. He taught at Princeton, Columbia, Berkeley and other universities |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-149) |
| Notes |
Parallel Arabic text and English translation |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Arabic poetry -- 622-750.
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Arabic poetry -- 750-1258.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Middle Eastern.
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Arabic poetry
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
ʻAẓm, Ṣādiq Jalāl, writer of preface.
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| ISBN |
9783940924759 |
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394092475X |
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