The Vagaries of the Qasidah

By James E. Montgomery

A study of the tradition and practice of early Arabic poetry, this book provides an investigation of the multiple versions of early poems that exist in various Abbasid collections. It offers a corrective to the more exaggerated claims concerning this poetry and revises some hitherto fundamental attitudes by advancing an individual philologically-driven vision of the period.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0906094356
• ISBN13: 9780906094358
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 304 Pages