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100 Ancient Arabic Poems

Zhong Jikun

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The selected translations in this book are poems from various periods of ancient Arabia (the Jahiliya period, the Islamic period, the Umayyad period, the Abbasid period, the modern period and the Andalusian period). The selected poems involve important poetry genres, such as the hanging poems and chivalrous poems of the Jahiliya period; and representative people of each period, such as Ummrull Qais, Antara, Baishar bin Burd, Abu Nuwas, Mutanaibi, Abu Attahiyeh, Mai'ali, etc. The topics of poetry include descriptive poems, hymns, praise poems, chastity poems, erotic poems, satirical poems, philosophical poems, wine poems, exhortation poems, mourning poems, etc.