ʿAntara - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" ʿAntara - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Jones, Alan

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1063097
Doc. NO	:	ALei3494
Main Entry	:	Jones, Alan
Title & Author	:	ʿAntara - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Jones, Alan
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(562 words)
Abstract	:	ʿAntara , probably meaning “valiant,” was the name of several pre-Islamic poets, the only important one of whom was ʿAntara b. Shaddād, a sixth-century figure and author of one of the poems of the Muʿallaqāt . It is even more difficult than usual to elicit any facts about him, as by quite early in the Islamic period he had become a hero of legend and was to become the protagonist of the Sīrat ʿAntar , the great Arabic epic romance of chivalry. By the time of the composition of the Aghānī (
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei3494.pdf