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 Abbasid 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.
| ISBN: | 9781909724525 |
| Publication date: | 31st May 2015 |
| Author: | James Montgomery |
| Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Series: | Gibb Memorial Trust |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: poetry and poets |