Arabian Epic: Volume 3, Texts - Heroic and Oral Story-Telling

Zusammenfassung The hero cycles of Arabic belong to the literary tradition of The Arabian Nights and can be seen as the popular epics of their civilisation. Published in three volumes! the first introduces the background to the cycles! while the second analyses their contents and literary formulae. The epitomes surveyed in the final volume provide further insight into their literary nuances. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction to volume three; 1. Kitab Qisat al-Muqaddan 'Ali al-Zaibaq; 2. Sirat 'Antar; 3. Sirat al-Zahir Baibars; 4. Sirat Bani Hilal al-Kubra; 5. Taghribat Bani Hilal; 6. Sirat Bani Hilal fi Qissat Abi Zaid al-Hilali wa'l-Na'isa wa-Zaid al-'Ajjaj; 7. Sirat al-Amira Dhat al-Himma; 8. Qissat Firuz Shah b. al-Malik Darab; 9. Qissat al-Amir Hamzat al-Pahlawan; 10. Sirat Faris al-Yaman al-Malik Saif b. Dhi Yazan; 11. Sirat Saif al-Tijan; 12. Qissat al-Zir.

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• Authors: M. C. Lyons, M. C. (University of Cambridge) Lyons, Malcolm C. Lyons
• Assisted by: Faculty Of Oriental Studies (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.06.2005
• EAN: 9780521017404
• ISBN: 978-0-521-01740-4
• No. of pages: 672
• Series: University of Cambridge Oriental Publications; University of Cambridge Orient
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages