[PDF.00sj] The Mute Immortals Speak: Pre-Islamic Poetry and Poetics of Ritual (Myth and Poetics)

The Mute Immortals Speak: Pre-Islamic Poetry and Poetics of Ritual (Myth and Poetics)

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 | #2258284 in Books |  Cornell University Press |  2010-09-29 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.90 x.90 x5.90l,1.14 | File type: PDF | 352 pages

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||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Fantastic introduction to early Arabic poetry|By Volkswagen Blues|Stetkevych provides here an invaluable introduction to a literary world that is grossly undervalued. "The Mute Immortals Speak" consists of great translations (by which I mean very readable and elegant--I can't speak to how well they render the original in English, as I don't read Arabic) and useful commentary t| ||"The Mute Immortals Speak will be of interest to anyone seriously interested in Islam. It should also engage a wide, interdisciplinary audience through its demonstration that at the heart of the qasidah and its satellite genres is a central

A body of Bedouin oral poetry which was collected in the second or third Islamic century, the pre-Islamic qasidah, or ode, stands with the Qur'an as a twin foundation of Arabo-Islamic literary culture. Throughout the rich fifteen-hundred-year history of classical Arabic literature, the qasidah served as profane anti-text to the sacred text of the Qur'an.

While recognizing the esteem in which Arabs have traditionally held this poetry of the paga...

You easily download any file type for your device.The Mute Immortals Speak: Pre-Islamic Poetry and Poetics of Ritual (Myth and Poetics)   |  Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.

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