Marks a literary milestone. This title collects 129 poems from the four leading literary traditions of the Middle East which provide an unusual window into Middle Eastern history. These poems come from diverse languages and traditions - Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Hebrew - and span more than a thousand years. "This price-worthy book can be recommended to a very wide variety of readers, lay and academic, interested in poetry and poetics or in the periods, places, and overlapped cultures represented here."---Victor Castellani, European Legacy