Patronage and Poetry in the Islamic World: Social Mobility and Status in the Medieval Middle East and Central Asia by Jocelyn Sharlet

Patronage and Poetry in the Islamic World: Social Mobility and Status in the Medieval Middle East and Central Asia

Jocelyn Sharlet

336 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

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Arabic and Persian panegyric poetry was one of the most important genres of literature in the medieval Middle East and Central Asia. Jocelyn Sharlet argues that panegyric poetry is important not only because it provides a commentary on society and...

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