Preamble: growth and graft -- On wholeness. A bounding line -- The sum of its parts -- Arabic poetry, Greek terminology. Epigrams in the world -- Hegemonic presumptions and atomic fallout -- Epigrams in parallax
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The 'qasidah' and the 'qit'ah' are well known to scholars of classical Arabic literature, but the 'maqtu', a form of poetry that emerged in the thirteenth century and soon became ubiquitous, is as obscure today as it was once popular. These poems circulated across the Arabo-Isla…
"The qaṣīdah and the qiṭʿah are well known to scholars of classical Arabic literature, but the maqṭūʿ, a form of poetry that emerged in the thirteenth century and soon became ubiquitous, is as obscure today as it was once popular. These poems circulated across the Arabo-Islamic …
"The qaṣīdah and the qiṭʻah are well known to scholars of classical Arabic literature, but the maqṭūʻ, a form of poetry that emerged in the thirteenth century and soon became ubiquitous, is as obscure today as it was once popular. These poems circulated across the Arabo-Islamic …
Offering a vast panorama of the history of Arabic verse in its relation to Semitic verse, this work follows stages of its evolution from parallelistic pattern to the emergence of the three basic rhythms and then of the unique system of 'Arūḍ. It proposes a new interpretation of …