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Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo by Ned Sublette (Paperback - Feb. 1, 2007)
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Excerpt - page 10: "... virtuosic style per- formed by female slaves called qiyŻan (singular: qayna).40 These singing, wine- pouring courtesans had long been a fixture ..."
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Mountain of the Condor: Metaphor and Ritual in an Andean Ayllu (Case Studies in Education and Culture) by Joseph W. Bastien (Paperback - Mar. 1985)
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Excerpt - page 95: "... fields; Thursday it rained and he rested; and Friday was qayna (yesterday). "Kunan punchay Sabado"("Today is Saturday"), he announced. "It is ..."
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Goode's World Atlas to Accompany Geography Titles, 20th edition by de Blij (Paperback - June 29, 2001)
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Excerpt - page 183: "... _ ~QorobuNq_- ~ ~ Ak~ C ~"' ~ c Sar Qayna v~R ~_ . o • ® ~b%nsk TM o ~ ..."
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Tales of the Prophets (Qisas Al-Anbiya) (Great Books of the Islamic World) by Muhammad Ibn Abd Allah Kisai, Wheeler M. Thackston, and Al-Kisai (Hardcover - Dec. 1997)
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Excerpt - page 8: "... a sea called Asamm, behind which is a sea called Qaynas, ..."
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Homoeroticism in Classical Arabic Literature by J. W. Wright and Everett K. Rowson (Paperback - May 15, 1997)
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Excerpt - page 221: "... the saliva of the beloved; the slave-girl songstress or musician (qayna), the young and comely cupbearer (sag!); the wine jars, skins, ..."
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Women and Music in Cross-Cultural Perspective by Ellen Koskoff (Paperback - Mar. 1, 1989)
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Excerpt - page 70: "... one variety of female musician from Tunisia's earlier centuries: the qayna (pl. giyán) or, as more frequently designated in Tunisian sources, ..."
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Uzbek-English/English-Uzbek Dictionary and Phrasebook: Romanized (Hippocrene Dictionary & Phrasebooks) by Nicholas Awde, William Dirks, and Umida Hikmatullaeva (Paperback - Oct. 1, 2002)
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Excerpt - page 44: "... where? qayerdan? where front? qayir- to bend qayna- to boil qayoqda? where? gaysi'.1 which? qayt- to return qaytadan ..."
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Crossing Borders: Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures (The Middle Ages Series) by Sahar Amer (Hardcover - June 4, 2008)
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Excerpt - page 121: "... Jean Renart's Escoufle and the Traditions of Zarf Jawaris, and Qaynas in the Islamicate World We need to recognize how f ..."
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Dictionary of Turkic Languages by Kurtulus Oztopcu, Zhoumagaly Abouv, Nasir Kambarov, and Youssef Azemoun (Paperback - June 28, 1999)
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Excerpt - Index: "... qaymoq qayna- qaysi qayt- qaychi qayg'uli qalam qalbaki qaidirg'och qalin qaltira- grow ..."
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Dancing Fear and Desire: Race, Sexuality, and Imperial Politics in Middle Eastern Dance (Cultural Studies) by Stavros Stavrou Karayanni (Paperback - Dec. 9, 2004)
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Excerpt - page 28: "... them to serve as the "living repositories of the ancient qayna, the slave singers of pre-Islamic times."33 Apparently, they sang behind ..."
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Abu Nuwas: A Genius of Poetry (Makers of the Muslim World) by Philip Kennedy (Paperback - Mar. 2007)
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Excerpt - page 37: "... when I've shaved!" His relationship with `Ivan, the renowned "singing-girl" (qayna) ..."
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Close Relationships: Incest and Inbreeding in Classical Arabic Literature (Library of Middle East History) by Geert Jan Van Gelder (Hardcover - May 19, 2005)
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Excerpt - page 128: "... `Ali ibn Hishám (d. 217/832) said of his concubine, the qayna (singing-girl) Mutayyam: `She used to love me with a strong ..."
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World Musics in Context: A Comprehensive Survey of the World's Major Musical Cultures by Peter Fletcher and Laurence Picken (Paperback - Apr. 29, 2004)
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Excerpt - page 202: "... (popular) music, and that entertainment music was often performed by qayna ('singing slave girls').26 Popular instruments included those that derived from ..."
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Children in Slavery through the Ages by Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers, and Joseph C. Miller (Paperback - Oct. 27, 2009)
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Excerpt - page 90: "... of elite female singing slaves known as the qiyan (sing., qayna). ..."
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Representing Others in Medieval Iberian Literature (The New Middle Ages) by Michelle M. Hamilton (Hardcover - Oct. 16, 2007)
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Excerpt - page 26: "... trained as a poet and musician, the "singing slave women" (qayna, plural qiyan). Both songstresses and entertainers seemingly have some of ..."
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Concise Compendium of the World's Languages, Second Edition by George L. Campbell (Paperback - May 14, 1998)
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Excerpt - page 411: "... (tuta `night'); -mantapacha `since, from', e.g. wasimantapacha `from the house', qayna watamantapacha `since last year'. Word order SVO, SOV. ..."
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