Pouring water on time : a bilingual topical anthology of classical Arabic poetry /
This bilingual anthology presents the best of Arabic classical poetry's musings over the many faceted states of the human condition, among them love, generosity, life, time, youth, beauty, ecstasy, longing, wine, death and plenty more. Mansour Ajami's selection of topical verses and poems...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English Arabic |
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Berlin :
Gerlach Press,
2016.
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| Online Access: | Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed) |
| Summary: | This bilingual anthology presents the best of Arabic classical poetry's musings over the many faceted states of the human condition, among them love, generosity, life, time, youth, beauty, ecstasy, longing, wine, death and plenty more. Mansour Ajami's selection of topical verses and poems is guided by what was deemed best in its genre by the consensus of the great classical Arab literary critics and theoreticians.MANSOUR AJAMI is a writer and translator of books on Arabic poetry. He holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in Arabic Literature and Philosophy from the American University of Beirut and a PhD in Arabic Literature from Columbia University. He taught at Princeton, Columbia, Berkeley and other universities. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 149 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-149). |
| ISBN: | 9783940924759 394092475X |