The premise of the conference was to exploit the immense riches of Arabic poetry in the reconstruction of Arab history. The history considered includes both 'event history' and the history of culture in its widest sense. Poetry included in this...
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Asien-Orient-Institut, Abteilung für Orient und Islamwissenschaft, Bibliothek
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The premise of the conference was to exploit the immense riches of Arabic poetry in the reconstruction of Arab history. The history considered includes both 'event history' and the history of culture in its widest sense. Poetry included in this examination includes "the value of poetry for historical writing ... [and also] the historical relationship between the two autonomous fields, i.e., poetry and history."--Introduction
"Papers presented at an international conference ... held Jan. 24-26, 2008 and sponsored by the American University of Beirut's Sheikh Zayid bin Sultan Chair of Islamic Studies of the Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies and the Margaret Weyerhaeuser Jewett Chair of Arabic of the Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages"--Page 4 of cover
