How do you say "epigram" in Arabic? : literary history at the limits of comparison /

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 world for some six ce...

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Main Author: Talib, Adam.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018.

Series: Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures 40.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2018, ISBN: 9789004353343.

Subjects:

1258-1899

Epigrams, Arabic > History and criticism.

Arabic poetry > 1258-1800 > History and criticism.

Arabic poetry > 19th century > History and criticism.