Qasida Poetry: A World unto Itself

Talib, Adam

Abstract

Emerging in late antiquity in Arabic, qasida poetry became a token of cultural and political prestige in societies across West, South, and Central Asia, North, West, and East Africa, and southern Europe. The form was adapted from Arabic into every language of the Islamicate world, including Persian, Ottoman Turkish, Chagatai, Hebrew, Urdu, Kurdish, Malay, Swahili, Hausa, and many more.

Citation

Talib, A. (2019). Qasida Poetry: A World unto Itself. In C. Chism (Ed.), A companion to world literature. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118635193.ctwl0318

• Online Publication Date: Dec 19, 2019
• Publication Date: 2019
• Deposit Date: Nov 24, 2020
• Publicly Available Date: Nov 24, 2020
• Publisher: Wiley
• Series Number: 2
• Book Title: A companion to world literature.
• ISBN: 9781118993187
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118635193.ctwl0318
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1626886
• Contract Date: Feb 2, 2019