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Following the Traces of the Sons of Hilal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Micheline Galley
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Extract

While the epic is absent from classical Arabic literature, the genre - although long ignored - plays an outstanding part in popular culture throughout the Arabo-Islamic sphere.

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Diogenes , Volume 46 , Issue 181 , March 1998 , pp. 129 - 149
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Copyright © 1998 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

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