The Mute Immortals Speak: Pre-Islamic Poetry and the Poetics of Ritual
ISBN: 9781501720178
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Qasidas -- Themes motives; Arabic poetry -- To 622 -- History and criticism; Rites and ceremonies in literature;

The Mute Immortals Speak will be important for students and scholars in the fields of Middle Eastern literatures, Islamic studies, folklore, oral literature...


Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych is Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at Indiana University. Her books include The Poetics of Islamic Legitimacy: Myth, Gender and Ceremony in the Classical Arabic Ode ; Early Islamic Poetry and Poetics: The Formation of the Classical Islamic World ; and The Mantle Odes: Arabic Praise Poems to the Prophet Muhammad .

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