Rhythms of the secular: The politics of modernizing Arab poetic forms

American Ethnologist

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 290-307

  Furani, Khaled ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Modernity and secularism; Palestine Israel; Poetic form

Indexed keywords

EID: 45749084879     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: 15481425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2008.00036.x     Document Type: Article

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