Identification and Identity in Classical Arab Poetry

By Malcolm C. Lyons

In early Arabic poetry, poets mostly speak in the first person - a point which sets their tradition apart from most other civilisations. This study investigates the characteristic poetic roles found in the works of thirty seven poets dating from the pre-Islamic to the Abbasid period, to which are added specimens of Spanish Arabic lyric poetry and the popular poetry of Baghdad.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0906094380
• ISBN13: 9780906094389
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.4"