ABSTRACT
This book gives an insight into panegyrics, a genre central to understanding medieval Near Eastern Society. Poets in this multi-ethnic society would address the majority of their verse to rulers, generals, officials, and the urban upper classes, its tone ranging from celebration to reprimand and even to threat.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|76 pages
Setting the Stage
part 2|45 pages
Speech and Characterization
part 3|73 pages
The Dramaturgy
part 4|30 pages
Verbal Ornament
part 5|39 pages
IBN AL-Rūmī's Ethics of Patronage