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Al-Mutanabbi
Margaret Larkin
Category: Humanities: History
ISBN: 1-85168-406-9 EAN: 978-1-85168-406-9 Format: Hardback Pages: 140 Publisher: Oneworld Year: 2008 Quantity in Stock: 9
Cover price: £25 Sale Price:£6.99
This exhaustive and yet enthralling study considers the life and work of al-Mutanabbi (915-965), often regarded as the greatest of the classical Arab poets. A revolutionary at heart and often imprisoned or forced into exile throughout his tumultuous life, al-Mutanabbi wrote both controversial satires and when employed by one of his many patrons, laudatory panegyrics. Employing an ornate style and use of the ode, al-Mutanabbi was one of the first to successfully move away from the traditionally rigid form of Arabic verse, the ‘qasida’.
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