Montgomery, J E

A study of the tradition and practice of early Arabic poetry, this book provides an investigation of the multiple versions of early poems that exist in various Abbasid collections. It offers a corrective to the more exaggerated claims concerning this poetry and revises some hitherto fundamental attitudes by advancing an individual philologically-driven vision of the period. 304p. (Gibb Memorial Trust 1997) Winner of the Abdullah Moubarak Literary Award 1998

Table of contents

Prefatory Note; Prologue Five Assumptions; 1 Alqamah's Petition for the Release of his Brother Shas; 2 Love's 'Wonderful Workynge'; 3 Marital Bliss and Acrimonious Divorce; 4 The Bull Oryx; 5 An Arab at Sea: A Poem by Bishr b. Abi Khazim al-Asadi; 6 Poetry in the Early Islamic Period; Epilogue A Manifesto; Bibliography; Indices.

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