Qasida Poetry in Islamic Asia and Africa (2 Vol Set) (Studies in Arabic Literature, Vol 20)

This publication deals with the "qasida", a poetic genre of Arabic origin which has become a major vehicle for the expression of societal and religious ideals in many languages of Asia and Africa. Volume One is a collection of papers by international specialists dealing with classical and modern qasida traditions that range from those in Arabic, Persian and Turkish in the Islamic heartland to languages further afield such as Urdu, Indonesian and Hausa. The papers focus upon selected poems which are published, together with an English translation, in Volume Two. This anthology contains 50 poems in 14 languages dating from the 7th to the 20th centuries.