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Title Birds through a ceiling of alabaster : three Abbasid poets : Arab poetry of the Abbasid period / translated with an introduction by G.B.H. Wightman and A.Y. al-Udhari.

Imprint Harmondsworth ; Baltimore : Penguin, 1975.

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LOCATION Barcode Call Number OPACMSG NOTE STATUS
 NMU South Open Shelves  00972691  PJ7653.B57  Nearby on shelf  ---  AVAILABLE
Phys. Description 128 pages : map ; 18 cm
Content Type text
Media Type unmediated
Carrier Type volume
Series The Penguin classics
Penguin classics.
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Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Introduction.--Abbas Ibn al-Ahnaf.--Abdullah Ibn al-Mu'tazz.--Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri.
Summary Baghdad, throughout the Abbasid dynasty, was the centre of Arab-Muslim culture where the assimilation of Persian, Indian and Greek writing and thought produced a rich and diverse literature. The three poets represented in this volume wrote between the eighth and tenth centuries A.D., and range in mood from serious speculation to exuberant sensuality to delicate lyricism."--Back cover.
Subject Arabic poetry -- 750-1258.
Alt Author Wightman, G. B. H. (George Brian Hamilton) http://viaf.org/viaf/93181983
Udhari, Abdullah, 1941- http://viaf.org/viaf/98271522
ISBN 0140443053
9780140443059
RELATED TO Online version: Birds through a ceiling of alabaster. Harmondsworth ; Baltimore : Penguin, 1975 (OCoLC)557616705
Online version: Birds through a ceiling of alabaster. Harmondsworth ; Baltimore : Penguin, 1975 (OCoLC)609340030