8vo. xl, 541 pp., [1 errata], half-title, publisher’s original wrappers, soiled, unopened, occasional foxing, previous owner’s inscription on half-title page, otherwise copy in very good condition, Publications de L’Institut d’Etudes Orientales, Faculte des Lettres d’Alger, Volume V, Librairie d’Amerique et d’Orient, Adrien-Maisonneuve, Paris, first edition, 1937.

Synopsis

A major academic study of Andalusian poets, their formation and social condition, their poetic themes and works. An extended bibliography is listed at the beginning of this work. Pérès discusses in details how Arabic language spread through Spain, and how the Spanish mountains inspired the Arab poets.