Author : Leon Zolondek
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813195128
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Di‘bil b. ‘Ali by : Leon Zolondek
Download or read book Di‘bil b. ‘Ali written by Leon Zolondek and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Di'bil b. 'Alī (765–860) was regarded by his contemporaries as one of the best satirists in the school of Arabic poets which flourished during the early 'Abbāsid age. Leon Zolondek has collected, translated, and annotated 229 fragments of Di'bil's verse and has assembled materials for a reconstruction of his long-lost yet widely quoted Book of the Poets. Arabic texts of the poems and of the citations of Book of the Poets are included.