Classical Arabic Verse
Biographical note
Dmitry V. Frolov, Ph.D. (1980) in Arabic Linguistics, Litt.D. (1991) in Arabic Literature, both in Moscow University, is Professor of Arabic Philology at Moscow State University. He has published extensively on Arabic philology, grammar and metrics, Qur'anic and Islamic studies.
Readership
All those interested in the history of Arabic metrics, the history of the Arab philological sciences, the history of Arabic poetry, in comparative metrical studies, students of Arabic language and civilization.
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This work consists of stories both from Muslim sacred history and collections of tales from a variety of sources – even from The Thousand and One Nights -- used for religious edification or purely for pleasure reading in the Islamic world.
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This translation and study extend our knowlege of the Arabic genre of the maqāma by some years. If translations of the genre are lacking, literary critical studies of it are even rarer. Therefore, the work will be of interest to scholars of Arabic, Spanish, and other literatures, to ...
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This two-volume publication provides a unique introduction to the qadisa, a major poetic genre current in Islamic literatures from medieval times to the present; it comprises a volume of papers and an accompanying anthology of 50 poems in 14 languages with English translation.
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The Voice from the Desert is the fifth and concluding volume of the Corpus Poetry & Narratives from Central Arabia. It presents a consolidated Glossary and the Indices for the entire series. In a Preface the author looks back on his twenty years of research in Arabian oral culture.
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A Saudi Tribal History, the fourth volume of Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia, presents the oral traditions of the Dawāsir tribal confederation which continue to shape its members' collective consciousness. It comprises an analytical introduction, the Arabic text in transcription ...
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This volume presents and analyses the work of four contemporary Saudi Bedouin poets, based on taped records, with special emphasis on this poetry's reflection of the tribal society's evolving self-image at a time of rapid social, economic, and political transformation.
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This volume presents in translation and transcription the oral text of narratives about and poems by Šlēwīḥ, one of Arabia's most famous nineteenth-century robber barons, recorded by Xālid, a sheikh of the ‘Utaybah tribe of Saudi Arabia and the great-grandson of Šlēwīḥ.
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