Download or read book Abū Tammām and the Poetics of the 'Abbāsid Age written by Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-12-28 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study deals with the most radical of the badī' ("novel") poets of the 'Abbasid period, Abū Tammām. After a critique of classical badī' theory it proposes a redefinition of the new poetry as an exegetical metapoesis and on that basis provides analyses, accompanied by original translations, of five of Abū Tammām's most celebrated political odes and of extensive selections from his renowned anthology, the Hamāsah.