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78 pages ; 24 cm Includes bibliographical references The wisdom of the Arabs, 400 years of cross-cultural interaction / Petra M. Sijpesteijn -- On hedgehogs, foxes, magpies, and why the world should read classical Arabic poetry / James E. Montgomery -- Antidotes and anecdotes, a literary history of medicine from 13th-century Syria / Geert Jan van Gelder

Author

Petra Sijpesteijn; James E Montgomery; G. J. H. van Gelder; LUCIS (Center); Leiden University Press

Publisher

[Leiden, Netherlands]: Leiden University Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9789400602502

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Arabic Literature, Humanities

Updated

2026-03-25