Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish & Hebrew Poems by Bernard Lewis
Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish & Hebrew Poems

Bernard Lewis

Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish & Hebrew Poems

Bernard Lewis with Abu'l-'Atahiya, Yehuda HaLevi

240 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction classics poetry challenging reflective slow-paced
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Music of a Distant Drum marks a literary milestone. It collects 129 poems from the four leading literary traditions of the Middle East, all masterfully translated into English by Bernard Lewis, many for the first time. These poems come from divers...

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