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Like Joseph in beauty : Yemeni vernacular poetry and Arab-Jewish symbiosis / by Mark S. Wagner.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Brill studies in Middle Eastern literatures ; v. 33.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 354 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789047442196
  • 9047442199
  • 1282399373
  • 9781282399372
  • 9786612399374
  • 6612399376
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Like Joseph in beauty.DDC classification:
  • 892.7/1099533 22
LOC classification:
  • PJ8007.2 .W34 2009eb
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  • online - EBSCO
  • 18.72
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Contents:
Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; A Note on Translation; Introduction; PART ONE THE POETICS OF HUMAYNI VERSE; Chapter One: Defining the Humayni Poem; Chapter Two: Dialect in Humayni Poetry; PART TWO HUMAYNI POETRY IN THE YEMENI CULTURAL AND LITERARY LANDSCAPE; Chapter Three: A Golden Age of Humayni Poetry; Chapter Four: the Status of Humayni Poetry; PART THREE SHABAZIAN POETRY; Chapter Five: R. Salim al-Shabazi and the Shabaziyyat; Chapter Six: Shabazian Eroticism, Kabbalah and Dor De'ah; PART FOUR H?UMAYNI AND MODERNITY.
Summary: Traces the evolution of an Arabic poetic form called 'Humayni poetry'. This book addresses the connections between the Humayni poetry of Yemen and the sacred poetry of Jews from Yemen, a chapter in the history of Arabic and Jewish literatures.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-339) and index.

Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; A Note on Translation; Introduction; PART ONE THE POETICS OF HUMAYNI VERSE; Chapter One: Defining the Humayni Poem; Chapter Two: Dialect in Humayni Poetry; PART TWO HUMAYNI POETRY IN THE YEMENI CULTURAL AND LITERARY LANDSCAPE; Chapter Three: A Golden Age of Humayni Poetry; Chapter Four: the Status of Humayni Poetry; PART THREE SHABAZIAN POETRY; Chapter Five: R. Salim al-Shabazi and the Shabaziyyat; Chapter Six: Shabazian Eroticism, Kabbalah and Dor De'ah; PART FOUR H?UMAYNI AND MODERNITY.

Traces the evolution of an Arabic poetic form called 'Humayni poetry'. This book addresses the connections between the Humayni poetry of Yemen and the sacred poetry of Jews from Yemen, a chapter in the history of Arabic and Jewish literatures.

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English.