A History of Arabic LiteratureD. Appleton, 1903 - 478 pages |
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... the primitive man - cunning , greed , suspicion , cruelty- reign unchecked , even to this day , in the hearts of the dwellers in these inaccessible towns . The Arab of the Desert is a man of courage 2 ARABIC LITERATURE.
... the primitive man - cunning , greed , suspicion , cruelty- reign unchecked , even to this day , in the hearts of the dwellers in these inaccessible towns . The Arab of the Desert is a man of courage 2 ARABIC LITERATURE.
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... though it be , is sensitive , to some extent , to music , or , at all events , to rhythm . Its four heavy steps gave the metre , and the alternations of long and short syllables in the spoken language 4 ARABIC LITERATURE.
... though it be , is sensitive , to some extent , to music , or , at all events , to rhythm . Its four heavy steps gave the metre , and the alternations of long and short syllables in the spoken language 4 ARABIC LITERATURE.
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... Arabs had produced poetry with no knowledge of its rules , beyond their own innate feeling for poetic rhythm . Here , then , we see the Arab singing his way along his lengthy journeys , and weaving poems which cele ... ARABIC POETRY 5.
... Arabs had produced poetry with no knowledge of its rules , beyond their own innate feeling for poetic rhythm . Here , then , we see the Arab singing his way along his lengthy journeys , and weaving poems which cele ... ARABIC POETRY 5.
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... Arabs , when they reached a spring after a long journey . Sozomen , a Greek author , who wrote an ecclesiastical history in the fifth century , reports that in A.D. 372 Mania or Mavia , Queen of the Saracens , defeated the Roman troops ...
... Arabs , when they reached a spring after a long journey . Sozomen , a Greek author , who wrote an ecclesiastical history in the fifth century , reports that in A.D. 372 Mania or Mavia , Queen of the Saracens , defeated the Roman troops ...
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... , followed by a short , and then another long from that time Arab poetry had an actual exist- ence , although this , according to native feeling , is not a true prosodic metre . But the Arabs have at all 8 ARABIC LITERATURE.
... , followed by a short , and then another long from that time Arab poetry had an actual exist- ence , although this , according to native feeling , is not a true prosodic metre . But the Arabs have at all 8 ARABIC LITERATURE.
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