The mantle odes
Subtitle: Arabic praise poems to the Prophet Muhammad
By: Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng; ara
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780253354877; 9780253222060
Subjects: Muḥammad, -- Prophet, -- d. 632 -- In literature; Kaʻb ibn Zuhayr -- Criticism and interpretation; Būṣīrī, Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd, 1213?-1296? -- Criticism and interpretation; Shawqī, Aḥmad, -- 1868-1932 -- Criticism and interpretation; Laudatory poetry, Arabic -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Kaʻb ibn Zuhayr and the mantle of the Prophet; title: al-Būṣīrī and the dream of the mantle; title: Aḥmad Shawqī and the reweaving of the mantle; title: Conclusion : Umm Kulthūm, al-Qaraḍāwī, and Nahj al-Burdah.