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Excerpt from Syrian Songs, Proverbs, and Stories: Collected, Translated, and Annotated From the Journal of American Oriental Society, Vol. 23, 1902, Pp. 175-288 In some of the funeral songs, it will be noticed that at times the metre is decidedly defective. I have, however, left these songs, with all their imperfections, exactly in their original form, for only so will they show the actual compositions of the fellahin. In the same way, the stories are in the exact form in which they were first told. In the translations my primary object has been literalness and clearness, rather than literary. Excellence. The Arabic text has been used as the basis in numbering the lines. The last word of a numbered line of Arabic text has the same number opposite the-line in which this word occurs in the transliteration and the translation. For convenience of refer ence I have arranged the lines of the translations of the songs in the same relative positions occupied by the lines of the Arabic text. An attempt has been made in the Bibliography to give the titles of all books and articles which are of importance to the student of modern Arabic. I have tried to make the list of vernacular texts as complete as possible. Several of the diction aries, grammars, and books of proverbs, deal with the classical language. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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