Identification and Identity in Classical Arab Poetry
Published on 31. January 1999
Book
Hardback
384 pages
978-0-906094-38-9 (ISBN)
Description
In early Arabic poetry, poets mostly speak in the first person - a point which sets their tradition apart from most other civilisations.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 147 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
658 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-906094-38-9 (9780906094389)
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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).