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Vintage Humour The Islamic Wine Poetry of Abu Nuwas
ISBN: HB: 9781849048972, Hurst Publishers, January 2018
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Abu Nuwas, the pre-eminent bacchic bard of the classical Arabic canon, was loved and reviled in equal measure for his lyrical celebration of Abbasid Baghdad's dissolute nightlife, his cutting satires of religion and the clergy,...
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£18,99
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Poetry and Politics in the Modern Arab World
ISBN: HB: 9781849043199, Hurst Publishers, April 2016
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The representation in poetic form of political events and ideas in the Arab world since the nineteenth century is this book's principal theme. Atef Alshaer demonstrates an integral connection between poetry and politics, reflec...
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£35,00
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Poetry of the Taliban
ISBN: PB: 9781849043052, Hurst Publishers, October 2013
244 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Overlooked by many as mere propaganda, poetry offers an unfettered insight into the wider worldview of the Afghan Taliban. This collection of over two hundred poems draws upon Afghan tradition and the recent past as much as upo...
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£12,99
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