Al-Maʿarrī’s Anxious Menagerie: The Epistle of the Horse and the Mule
Abstract Around the year 411/1021, blind author and controversial freethinker Abū l-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī (449/1057) wrote Risālat al-ṣāhil wa-l-shāḥij (The Epistle of the Horse and the Mule), a meandering prose work populated by animal characters who talk about Syrian society on the eve of the crusades....
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2021
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| In: |
Journal of Abbasid Studies
Year: 2021, Volume: 8, Issue: 1, Pages: 142-171 |
| Further subjects: | B
Animals
B Islam B Poetry B al-Maʿarrī B Fiction B Arabic Literature |
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