Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych: Pre-Islamic Poetry and the Poetics of Ritual - The Mute Immortals Speak

Constructs the first modern aesthetic framework for the qasidah , the pre-Islamic oral bedouin poetry that was collected in the second or third Islamic century, and persevered throughout the classical period as a profane counterfoil to the sacred ...

Läs mer »

A body of Bedouin oral poetry which was collected in the second or third Islamic century, the pre-Islamic qasidah, or ode, stands with the Qur'an as a twin foundation of Arabo-Islamic literary culture. Throughout the rich fifteen-hundred-year...

Läs mer »