Studies in Islamic Poetry

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-521-18224-9
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 316 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 448 g

Two essays on Persian and Arabic poetic literature, which form the first part of a collection of essays by Nicholson. This volume was written during the First World War and originally published in 1921. The second volume Studies in Islamic Mysticism was reissued in the Cambridge University Press Library Collections series in 1967. The essays contain full quotation in translation and the original texts appear in an appendix.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nicholson, Reynold Alleyne

Nicholson

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Literatur des Nahen Ostens & Nordafrikas
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Iranische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Literatur & Kunst

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I. An Early Persian Anthology; Part II. The Meditations of Ma'arrí: 1. Poems on life and death; 2. Poems on human society; 3. Poems on asceticism; 4. Poems on philosophy and religion; 5. Appendix containing the Arabic text of the pieces translated above; Index of names and titles; Index of subjects.