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How do you say “Epigram” in Arabic? Literary history at the limits of comparison (2017)
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Talib, A. (2017). How do you say “Epigram” in Arabic? Literary history at the limits of comparison. Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004350533

The qaṣīdah and the qiṭʿah are well known to scholars of classical Arabic literature, but the maqṭūʿ, a form of poetry that emerged in the thirteenth century and soon became ubiquitous, is as obscure today as it was once popular. These poems circulat... Read More about How do you say “Epigram” in Arabic? Literary history at the limits of comparison.