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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Birds through a ceiling of alabaster. Harmondsworth ; Baltimore : Penguin, 1975 (OCoLC)557616705 Online version: Birds through a ceiling of alabaster. Harmondsworth ; Baltimore : Penguin, 1975 (OCoLC)609340030 |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
G B H Wightman; Abdullah Udhari |
ISBN: | 0140443053 9780140443059 |
OCLC Number: | 2512434 |
Description: | 128 pages : map ; 18 cm. |
Contents: | Introduction.--Abbas Ibn al-Ahnaf.--Abdullah Ibn al-Mu'tazz.--Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri. |
Series Title: | Penguin classics. |
Responsibility: | translated with an introduction by G.B.H. Wightman and A.Y. al-Udhari. |
Abstract:
Baghdad, throughout the Abbasid dynasty, was the centre of Arab-Muslim culture where the assimilation of Persian, Indian and Greek writing and thought produced a rich and diverse literature. The three poets represented in this volume wrote between the eighth and tenth centuries A.D., and range in mood from serious speculation to exuberant sensuality to delicate lyricism."--Back cover.
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