Arabic-L:LIT:Poetry Concordance Responses and Summary

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1) Subject: Poetry Concordance Response
2) Subject: Poetry Concordance Response
3) Subject: Poetry Concordance thanks and publication info

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Date: 05 May 2001
From: "Dr. Stefan Weninger" <Stefan.Weninger at lrz.uni-muenchen.de>
Subject: Poetry Concordance Response

Dear Mr. Reisman,

the project is going on, and as a first fruit a concordance on the "Six
poets" (Imra' al-Qais, Zuhayr ibn abii Sulmaa, T.arafa, cAlqama,
cAntara, an-Naabigha) as edited by W. Ahlward, was published by A. Arazi
and S. Masalha in Jerusalem 1999 at the Max Shloessinger Foundation, cf.
my forthcoming review in Zeitschrift für Arabsche Linguistik.

Stefan Weninger

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2)
Date: 05 May 2001
From: "Schub, Michael" <michael.schub at trincoll.edu>
Subject: Poetry Concordance Response

Please contact one of its editors, Prof. Etan Kohlberg
@ Hebrew U., Jerusalem.
      Best wishes,
                                      Mike Schub

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3)
Date: 05 May 2001
From: "David C. Reisman" <david.reisman at yale.edu>
Subject: Poetry Concordance Thanks and Publication info

Greetings,

Thanks to all who sent information about the Poetry concordance. I
thought subscribers might like to know that there is a recent related
publication. The following is publication info.

Regards,
David C. Reisman
			The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
			The Institute of Asian and African Studies
			The Max Schloessinger Memorial Foundatio

			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.

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			ORDER FORM

The price of the volume is $265 + $3.00 for postage and handling.
Members of the  association "From Jahiliyya to Islam" will pay $185 + 3.00
(direct sales  only, not through booksellers). Cheques payable to the
Schloessinger  Memorial Foundation should be sent to the Director of
Publications, The  Max Schloessinger Memorial Foundation, Institute of
Asian and African  Studies, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91905,
Israel. Please note that  we cannot accept eurocheques, but personal and
institutional checks are  acceptable. Inquiries: e-mail:
msjsai at pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il  / Fax: +972-2-588-3658.

Please send ________copies of The Concordance of the Diwans of the Six
Ancient Arab poets.


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