Structure and Meaning in Medieval Arabic and Persian Lyric Poetry
Subtitle: Orient Pearls (Culture and Civilization in the Middle East)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: October 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780700715756
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history; Poetry & poets: classical, early & medieval; c 500 CE to c 1000 CE; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Arabic; Persian (Farsi); Literary Criticism; Islamic countries; Persian Empire; Medieval; Middle Eastern; Poetry; Literary Criticism & Collections / Middle Eastern
First sentence: Sir William Jones's rendering of the final line of a ghazal by the eighth/fourteenth-century Persian poet Hafiz stands Janus-like at the gateway of the modern West's encounter with Arabic and Persian poetry.