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ISBN 13 | 9781479853182 |
ISBN 10 | 1479853186 |
Author | Ibn Al-Muʿtazz |
Language | English |
Book Description | "Arabic hunting poetry from the Abbasid era, by renowned poet Ibn al-Mutazz"-- |
About the Author | Ibn al-Muʿtazz (d. 296/908) was an accomplished and prolific poet and author of works of literary theory and literary history. He was the direct descendant of six caliphs and was himself made caliph in 296/908, but ruled for only one day before he was killed by the palace guards, partisans of his brother al-Muqtadir.James E. Montgomery is Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity Hall. His latest publications are In Deadly Embrace: Arabic Hunting Poems, Fate the Hunter: Early Arabic Hunting Poems, and Kalīlah and Dimnah: Fables of Virtue and Vice, with Michael Fishbein. In 2024 he was elected Fellow of the British Academy. |
Publication Date | 5 September 2023 |
Number of Pages | 224 pages |
In Deadly Embrace: Arabic Hunting Poems