Baghdad
Subtitle: the city in verse
By: translated and edited by Reuven Snir ; foreword by Roger Allen ; afterword by Abdul Kader El Janabi
Contributors: Janābī, ʻAbd al-Qādir, 1944- writer of afterword
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9780674725218
Subjects: Arabic poetry; In literature
Description: An original translation of more than 170 Arabic poems which represent a cross-section of genres and styles from the time of Baghdad's founding in the eighth century to the present day.
Notes: Translated from Arabic.

Selected poems from the early classical period through the 20th century.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.