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ARABIAN PENINSULA: Oral Poetry & Narratives from Central Arabia: Voices from the Desert, Vol. 5
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ARABIAN PENINSULA Oral Poetry & Narratives from Central Arabia: Voices from the Desert, Vol. 5, by P. Marcel Kurpershoek. Gloss. Indices. List of Recordings. Leiden, The Netherlands and Boston, MA: Brill, 2005. xxiv + 421 pages. $178.
Reviewed by Sebastian Maisel
Opus operisi After more than a decade of meticulous scholarly fieldwork, author and current Ambassador of the Netherlands to Turkey, P. Marcel Kurpershoek, provides us with the ultimate research tool to fully apprec...
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