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Love and poetry in the Middle East : love and literature from the antiquity to the present / editor, Atef Alshaer.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Middle Eastern literature--History and criticism.
- Middle Eastern literature.
- Literature and history--Middle East.
- Literature and history.
- Love poetry.
- Assyro-Babylonian literature.
- Egyptian literature.
- Arabic literature.
- Persian literature.
- Hebrew literature.
- Turkish literature.
- Middle East.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations
- polychrome
- Distribution:
- London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.
- Place of Publication:
- London [England] : I.B. Tauris, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Introduction / Atef Alshaer
- Chapter 1. Power-plays: Types of Lover and Types of Love Poetry in Akkadian from the Third and Second Millennia BC / Mark Weeden (SOAS, University of London, UK)
- Chapter 2. Ancient Egyptian Love Poetry / Robert Anderson (Late of City University, UK)
- Chapter 3. The Love of Jacob and Rachel in Modern Hebrew Poetry / Tamar S. Drukker (SOAS, University of London, UK)
- Chapter 4. An Arab and Islamic View of Love: The Poetry of the 'Udhri s / Atef Alshaer (University of Westminster, UK)
- Chapter 5. Love in Al- Ghazali's The Alchemy of Happiness and the First Volume of Rumi's Masavi-yi Ma'navi / Huma Baig (Independent Scholar, UK)
- Chapter 6. Unveiling Desire: Love in Modern Turkish Poetry / Laurent Mignon (University of Oxford, UK)
- Chapter 7. Love, Beloved and Adorer: Kurdish Ghazal poetry in the Nineteenth Century as a Space for Moral Protest / Mariwan Kanie (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
- Chapter 8. The Politics of Madness and Love in New Iranian Poetry in the 1950s-1960s: The Legacy of Majnun in She're Now: Ahmad Shamlu and Forough Farrokhzad's Love Poetry / Seyedeh Paniz Musawi Natanzi (SOAS, University of London, UK)
- Chapter 9. Love and Conflict in Modern Arabic Poetry: The Case of Nizar Qabbani and Mahmoud Darwish / Atef Alshaer (University of Westminster, UK).
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9780755640973
- 0755640977
- Publisher Number:
- 40030936498
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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