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Article: Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish & Hebrew Poems. (Classical Mideast Poetry in Translations by Bernard Lewis). (book review)
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Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish & Hebrew Poems, by Bernard Lewis. Princeton University Press, 2001, 222 pp.
During the last 25 years, I have discovered that much of what I have learned about Islam, its art, religion, literature, and culture, the Arabic language, and the history of non-Arab Muslims has come from the sagacious writing of Bernard Lewis.
Lewis brings to his metier not merely a vast erudition, linguistic finesse (with an intimidating knowledge of Arabic, Farsi, Turkish, and Hebrew) and great analytical skills but a truly scholarly and objective approach to a subject which is often wrought with emotional valences.
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