Jaroslav Stetkevych

Broschiertes Buch

Muhammad and the Golden Bough

Reconstructing Arabian Myth

Beschreibung

Demonstrates the existence of a coherent pre-Islamic Arabian myth that was subsequently incorporated into Islamic poetic tradition. This book dissects the Arab-Islamic myth built around Muhammad's unearthing of a "golden bough" from the grave of the last survivor of an ancient Arab people.

Autor

Jaroslav Stetkevych is Professor Emeritus of Arabic Literature at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Modern Arabic Literary Language: Lexical and Stylistic Developments and The Zephyrs of Najd: The Poetics of Nostalgia in the Classical Arabic Nasîb. His articles on classical and modern Arabic literature have appeared in Spanish, English, Arabic, and Ukrainian.

Produktdetails

• Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 214mm x 138mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 244g
• ISBN-13: 9780253214133
• ISBN-10: 0253214130
• Artikelnr.: 22271616