The Cooing of the Dove and the Cawing of the Crow: Late ʿabbāsid Poetics in Abū Al-ʿalāʾ Al-Maʿarrī's Saq&#778

by Stetkevych Suzanne P. and Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych

In The Cooing of the Dove and the Cawing of the Crow Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych offers original translations, close readings, and new interpretations of selected poems from the two contrasting diwans of the blind Late ʿAbbāsid master-poet, Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī (d. 449 H./1057 C.E.). The first is Saqṭ al-Zand (Sparks of the Flint), the highly esteemed collection of qaṣīdah...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 900449927X
• ISBN13: 9789004499270
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 400 Pages