Arabic poetry of the Middle Ages
Arabic poetry of the Middle Ages
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Medieval Arabic poetry remains little known to the general Russian reader. In their minds, it is invariably associated with something frozen, petrified—canonic composition and imagery, thematic and genre traditionalism, stereotypicality... This perception, however, is only half accurate. Medieval Arabic poetry gave the world many remarkable masters, superb artists, and profound and original thinkers. Without the work of Abu Nuwas and al-Mutanabbi, Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri and Ibn Quzman, who lived in different centuries and distant lands, the history of world literature would have been poorer, losing many incomparable colors. It would have been poorer also because it would have deprived all subsequent generations of poets of its profound and fruitful influence. And this influence is evident not only in the work of Arabic-language or, more broadly, Eastern poets; it has clearly manifested itself in the poetry of European peoples. In medieval Arabic poetry, history was often depicted as a chain of tightly connected links. Using this traditional poetic image, one could say that medieval Arabic poetry itself is a necessary link in the historical chain of all human culture. The Golden Link. Introduction by Kamil Yashen. Compilation, afterword, and notes by I. Filshtinsky. Interlinear translations by B. Shidfar, I. Filshtinsky, A. Kudelin, and M. Kiktev.
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