The late Annemarie Schimmel drew exhaustively on an enourmous range of sources both ancient and modern to create this thorough survey of a unique body of literature. Travelling from continent to continent and across the centuries, this story of Islamic poetry encompasses a wide spectrum of traditions and cultures, from Arabic religious verse to the ecstasies of the persian Sufis and the popular folk poetry of India and Pakistan.
- ISBN10 1851682740
- ISBN13 9781851682744
- Publish Date 1 July 2001 (first published 22 May 1982)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 7 July 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Oneworld Publications
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 384
- Language English