The Poetics of the Obscene in Premodern Arabic Poetry: Ibn Al-Hajjaj and Sukhf by Sinan Antoon

The Poetics of the Obscene in Premodern Arabic Poetry: Ibn Al-Hajjaj and Sukhf

Sinan Antoon

241 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

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The book is the first study of the 10th century Iraqi poet Ibn al-Hajjaj who popularized a new genre of obscene and scatological parody (sukhf) and is considered the most obscene poet in Arabic literature. Antoon traces the genealogy of this fasci...

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