Silagadze, Apollon. On a Unique Arabic Verse Form (Unik'aluri arabuli salek'so p'ormis shesakheb). 1992. In Georgian, Russian, and English, with Arabic examples.

სილაგაძე, აპოლონ. უნიკალური არაბული სალექსო ფორმის შესახებ / რედ. ალექსანდრე გვახარია.
თბილისი : სიურპრიზი, 1992 (წიგნ. ფაბრიკა). 103 გვ. ; 20 სმ.
ნაბეჭდი გარეკანი. ტირაჟი 500 ც. ტექსტი ქართ., რუს. და ინგლ. ენ.; არაბული ტექსტის ნიმუშები.
მდგომარეობა კარგი: გარეკანი სუფთა, ოდნავ ტალღოვანი; ბლოკი მყარი, სრული.
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Silagadze, Apollon. On a Unique Arabic Verse Form / editor Aleksandre Gvakharia.
Tbilisi : "Siurprizi" Publishing, 1992 (Book Factory press). 103 pp. ; 20 cm.
Paper wrappers. Print run of 500 copies. Text in Georgian, Russian, and English; with Arabic-text examples throughout.
Condition good: wrappers clean with slight wave; block firm and complete.

Apollon Silagadze was a Georgian Arabist and specialist in Arabic prosody working at the intersection of Caucasian Oriental studies and Arabic literary theory. The present monograph, published in Tbilisi in 1992 during the acute economic and political crisis of early post-Soviet Georgia, presents a systematic study of the Arabic verse form known as "band" (بند) - a poetic form created in Iraq in the seventeenth century that remained virtually unknown to European Arabic scholarship until the twentieth century. The "band" is notable as a double-level rhythmic structure: in its undivided form the verse constitutes a single hazaj metre, while when divided into lines it yields alternating different metres - hazaj and ramal - creating a two-level metrical scheme without parallel in the classical Arabic prosodic tradition. Silagadze establishes the historical background of the form, provides a structural analysis based on metrical notation, identifies its typological position in the development of Arabic verse, and examines its reproductive property. The volume concludes with an extended anthology of Arabic-text examples in full Arabic script, making it the primary scholarly apparatus for study of this form in Caucasian Oriental scholarship.