Epic and History in the Arabic Tradition

Mona Baker, Dwight F. Reynolds

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    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationEpic and History|Epic and Hist.
    Place of PublicationLondon & New York
    PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons Ltd
    Pages392-410
    Number of pages18
    EditionSecond
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 17 Dec 2009

    Keywords

    • Akkadian, Aramaic, Babylonian, Berber, Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Hebrew, Hittite
    • Arabic epic tradition
    • Early Arab culture poetry-playing highly significant role as a mode of communication
    • Early genres of Arabic historical writing
    • Epic and history in Arabic tradition
    • Epic in performance
    • Historical references to Banī Hilāl Bedouin tribe-conquest of North Africa in eleventh century
    • Moroccan Almohad dynasty-invading and capturing much of Ifrīqiyā
    • Spread of Islam and rapid expansion of Arabic literacy-new genres of historical narration emerged in Arabic
    • Study of living poetic oral historical traditions-textual transformations occurring in oral transmission

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