Al-Farid, A: Unique Necklace Al-'Iqd Al-Farid, Volume II
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- Hardcover ausgewählt
- Taschenbuch
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Sprache:Englisch
Fr. 102.00
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
01.03.2009
Verlag
Garnet PublishingSeitenzahl
340
Maße (L/B/H)
24.1/17/2.8 cm
Gewicht
864 g
Übersetzt von
Issa J. Boullata
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-85964-196-5
Al-'Iqd al-Farid (The Unique Necklace) is one of the classics of Arabic literature. Compiled in several volumes by an Andalusian scholar and poet named Ibn 'Abd Rabbih (246-328 A.H. / 860-940 C.E.), it remains a wealth of information about various elements of Arab culture and letters during the four centuries before Ibn 'Abd Rabbih's death. Essentially, it is a book of adab, a term understood in modern times to specifically mean literature, but in earlier times its meaning included all that a well-informed person had to know in order to pass in society as a cultured and refined individual. This meaning later evolved and included belles letters in the form of elegant prose and verse that was as much entertaining as it was morally educational such as poetry, pleasant anecdotes, proverbs, historical accounts, general knowledge, wise maxims, and even practical philosophy. Ibn 'Abd Rabbih's imagination and organization saved his encyclopedic compendium from becoming a chaotic jumble of ma
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