Bøger af Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych

The Mute Immortals Speak will be important for students and scholars in the fields of Middle Eastern literatures, Islamic studies, folklore, oral literature...

Opens the beauty and power of Arabic poetic masterpieces to Western readers.

Three of the most renowned praise poems to the Prophet, the mantle odes span the arc of Islamic history from Muhammad's lifetime, to the medieval Mamluk period, to the modern colonial era. This book not only demonstrates the relevance of these poems to contemporary scholarship but also reveals their power and beauty to the modern reader.