Islam and the heroic image: themes in literature and the visual arts

by John Renard

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First edition

Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, 1993 . First edition, 8vo, pp. xxi, 1 , 342; 17 figures and 4 tables in the text; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Islam and the Heroic Image surveys a broad range of themes from North Africa to Southeast Asia. The book opens with a discussion of the formation and function of heroic themes and the ways in which they have been interpreted in literature and art. Renard describes the major heroic types - folk,

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