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Document Details : Title: Pointed and Well-rounded Subtitle: Aramaic Encomiastic and Elegiac Epigrams Author(s): VAN GELDER, G.J. Journal: Orientalia Lovaniensia Periodica Volume: 26 Date: 1995 Pages: 101-140 DOI: 10.2143/OLP.26.0.583526 Abstract : There is no Arabic word for “epigram”. The reason for this lack is perhaps, rather than the absence of epigrams in Arabic literature, their ubiquity. Not only is there a great abundance of short poems from all periods that may be described as epigrams in the usual meaning of this term, but longer poems are often composed, as it were, of a series of epigrams, be they single lines or short passages. Most Arabic poems are either epigrams or epigrammatic. |
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