id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
ajiss-1801	Hartman, Michelle	The Poetics of Islamic Legitimacy: Myth, Gender, and Ceremony in the Classical Arabic Ode by Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. 383 pages.)	2004.0	4	.pdf	application/pdf	1119	40	42	Its rigorous approach to reading poetry and specific interest in the ways in which Arabo-Islamic authority was created and maintained means that it will be of interest to scholars in an array of disci- plines in Islamic studies, especially historians. In The Poetics of Islamic Legitimacy, Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych effectively debunks the myth that the classical Arabic panegyric ode 118 The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 21:2 (qasidat al-madh) is merely a descriptive, prescriptive, or sycophantic poetic genre by demonstrating its dynamic engagements with what she terms “Arabo-Islamic court life.”	cache/ajiss-1801.pdf	txt/ajiss-1801.txt