Studies in Islamic poetry
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Studies in Islamic poetry
（Cambridge University Press library editions）
Cambridge Univ. Press, 1969
[1st ed.] reprinted
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Islamic poetry
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First published 1921
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Two essays on Persian and Arabic poetic literature, which form the first part of a collection of essays by Nicholson. This volume was written during the First World War and originally published in 1921. The second volume Studies in Islamic Mysticism was reissued in the Cambridge University Press Library Collections series in 1967. The essays contain full quotation in translation and the original texts appear in an appendix.
Table of Contents
- Part I. An Early Persian Anthology
- Part II. The Meditations of Ma'arri: 1. Poems on life and death
- 2. Poems on human society
- 3. Poems on asceticism
- 4. Poems on philosophy and religion
- 5. Appendix containing the Arabic text of the pieces translated above
- Index of names and titles
- Index of subjects.
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