Bedouin and 'abbāsid Cultural Identities: The Arabic Majnūn Laylā Story by Ruqayya Yasmine Khan

Bedouin and 'abbāsid Cultural Identities: The Arabic Majnūn Laylā Story

Culture and Civilization in the Middle East

Ruqayya Yasmine Khan

232 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history literary religion challenging reflective medium-paced
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This literary-historical book draws out and sheds light upon the mechanisms of "the ideological work" that the Arabic Majnūn Laylā story performed for 'Abbāsid urbanite, imperial audiences in the wake of the disappearance of the "Bedouin cosmos." ...

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