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10%OFFSuzanne Pinckney Stetkevych - The Poetics of Islamic Legitimacy. Myth, Gender and Ceremony in the Classical Arabic Ode.  - 9780253215369 - V9780253215369
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The Poetics of Islamic Legitimacy. Myth, Gender and Ceremony in the Classical Arabic Ode.

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Description for The Poetics of Islamic Legitimacy. Myth, Gender and Ceremony in the Classical Arabic Ode. paperback. Opens the beauty and power of Arabic poetic masterpieces to Western readers. Num Pages: 408 pages, 42 figures, 1 bibliog., 1 index. BIC Classification: 2CSR; DSBB; DSC; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 23. Weight in Grams: 500.

" . . . transcends the realm of literature and poetic criticism to include virtually every field of Arabic and Islamic studies." —Roger Allen

Throughout the classical Arabic literary tradition, from its roots in pre-Islamic Arabia until the end of the Golden Age in the 10th century, the courtly ode, or qasida, dominated other poetic forms. In The Poetics of Islamic Legitimacy, Suzanne Stetkevych explores how this poetry relates to ceremony and political authority and how the classical Arabic ode encoded and promoted a myth and ideology of legitimate Arabo-Islamic rule. Beginning with praise poems to pre-Islamic Arab kings, Stetkevych takes ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253215369
SKU
V9780253215369
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" ... transcends the realm of literature and poetic criticism to include virtually every field of Arabic and Islamic studies." -Roger Allen

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