The Case of Rhyme versus Reason
Ibn al-Rūmī and his Poetics in Context
Biographical note
Robert C. McKinney, Ph.D. (1998) in Arabic Literature, Indiana University, has taught at the University of Khartoum in the Sudan, Sultan Qaboos University in the Sultanate of Oman, and Dartmouth College in the U.S. He now teaches Classical Arabic Literature at the American University in Cairo.
Readership
All those interested in Arabic language and literature, Near Eastern studies, comparative literature, intellectual history, anthropology, Classical and Renaissance studies, medieval studies, and the revolt of the Zanj.
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