What and Where on Earth Is Waqwaq?

For well over a century, Indian Ocean Arabists, using primarily linguistic (and biological) arguments, have posited that Waqwaq is one place or another, one life-form or another. It is now Madagascar, now Sumatra; now a milkweed, now a pandanus; now a bird, now a woman-fruit. It is now a tree, now a...

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Subtitles:Ḥarīrī, Tanūkhī, and Wāqwāq
Main Author: Toorawa, Shawkat M. 1963- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2023
In: Journal of Abbasid Studies
Year: 2023, Volume: 10, Issue: 2, Pages: 184-207
Further subjects:B Women
B Trees
B Waqwaq
B ʿAjāʾib
B Fruit
B Islamic geography
B Indian ocean
B Zaqqūm
B Birds
B Wāqwāq
B islands
B Arabian Nights
B Wāq al-wāq
B Wakwak
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