Arabian Satire : : Poetry from 18th-Century Najd / / Ḥmēdān al-Shwēʿir; ed. by Marcel Kurpershoek.

This lively volume collects poems by Hmedan al-Shwe'ir, who lived in Najd in the Arabian Peninsula shortly before the hegemony of the Wahhabi movement in the early eighteenth century.A master of satire known for his ribald humor, self-deprecation, and invective verse (hija'), Hmedan was ac...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Library of Arabic Literature ; 49
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