Andalusi Contests, Syrian Media Content: the Poetic Ritual Ijāzah.
This article moves the poetic ijāzah from the periphery, where modern scholars have generally placed it, to a central position in Arabic poetry and mass media. The ijāzah was well developed before its adoption in the western Mediterranean, but Cordoban, Sevillian, and expatriate Sicilian poets disti...
| Published in: | Journal of Arabic Literature Vol. 50; no. 2; pp. 123 - 148 |
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