Reacting to Muḥammad: Three Early Islamic Poets in the Kitāb al-Aghānī *
This article investigates how the secular Arabic poetic tradition interacted with the new religious rhetoric of emergent Islam. Concretely, it deals with the verses and legacies of three poets contemporary to Muḥammad who converted to Islam, yet protested its pietistic rhetoric. Abū Khirāsh al-Hudha...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Columbia University Libraries
2019-11-01
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Series: | Al-'Usur al-Wusta |
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Online Access: | https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/alusur/article/view/6780 |