Iraq and Syria’s Poetic Borders - The New Yorker
▻http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/iraq-syria-poetic-imagination
There are few places, in fact, endowed with as much cosmological and political significance as Iraq or Syria in the medieval Arabic literary and intellectual tradition. Even as they came under the sway of different rulers and were pulled apart into benighted principalities or swallowed up by vast global empires, the territories retained their elemental status as core geographical components of the sublunary world.
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