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1) Subject: Concordance of Pre-Islamic Poetry

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Date: 16 Nov 1999
From: msyfried at mscc.huji.ac.il
Subject: Concordance of Pre-Islamic Poetry

			The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
			The Institute of Asian and African Studies
			The Max Schloessinger Memorial Foundation


			is pleased to announce the publication of

	The Concordance of the Diwans of the Six Ancient Arab Poets

			Edited with an Introduction

					by

			Albert Arazi and Salman Masalha


	Pre-Islamic Arabic poetry is one of the greatest cultural achievements
of the Arabs in the early period of their history. For several centuries
it was considered the only model of poetic perfection. It is the earliest
literary corpus in classical Arabic and a major part of Arab cultural
heritage.
	The present volume consists of a concordance of "al-`Iqd al-thamin
fi dawawin al-shu`ara' al-sitta al-jahiliyyin", in the edition of William
Ahlwardt. It also contains a preface in Arabic and English, a new critical
edition with numerous emendations of Ahlwardt's text, and a full
concordance of the poetry of Imru' al-Qays, Zuhayr b. Abi Sulma, Tarafa b.
al-`Abd, `Alqama b. `Abada al-fahl, `Antara b. Shaddad, al-Nabigha
al-Dhubyani and a few poems by four minor poets. The book holds more than
1400 pages  and contains more than 33,000 entries.
	The concordance will serve as an essential tool for the study of
classical Arabic poetry and for the study of classical Arabic in general.
In addition to the concordance of nouns, verbs and particles, it includes
separate sections on proper names, geographical names, names of horses and
camels.
	The work on the Concordance started a few years after the Hebrew
University was established in 1925. More than 2,000,000 cards were
prepared before the project was computerized in the eighties. Special
software was developed in order to facilitate the processing of the
material.

Inquiries:
e-mail: msjsai at pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il
Fax: +972-2-588-365

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