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Love, Death, Fame
Poetry and Lore from the Emirati Oral Tradition
Av al-Māyidī ibn Ẓāhir, Marcel Kurpershoek
Inbunden, 2022
480 kr
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Poems and tales of a literary forefather of the United Arab EmiratesLove, Death, Fame features the poetry of al-Māyidī ibn Ẓāhir, who has been embraced as the earliest poet in what would later become the United Arab Emirates. Although little is known about his life, he is the subject of a sizeable …
Bedouin Poets of the Nafūd Desert
Av Khalaf Abū Zwayyid, ʿAdwān al-Hirbīd m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
399 kr
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A collection of poems from a changing Bedouin world Bedouin Poets of the Nafūd Desert features poetry from three poets of the Ibn Rashīd dynasty–the highwater mark of Bedouin culture in the nineteenth century. Khalaf Abū Zwayyid, ʿAdwān al-Hirbīd, and ʿAjlān ibn Rmāl belonged to tribes based around …
Arabian Hero
Oral Poetry and Narrative Lore from Northern Arabia
Av Shāyiʿ al-Amsaḥ, Marcel Kurpershoek
Inbunden, 2024
399 kr
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The heroic deeds and words of a warrior poet of northern ArabiaAn epic hero and a poet, the semi-legendary Shāyiʿ al-Amsaḥ was a prominent ancestor of the Shammar tribal confederation that stretches across the Great Nafūd desert in the northern Arabian Peninsula. Shāyiʿ's corpus of extant poems are …
Arabian Romantic
Poems on Bedouin Life and Love
Av ʿAbdallāh ibn Sbayyil, Marcel Kurpershoek
Inbunden, 2018
529 kr
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Love poems from late nineteenth-century Arabia Arabian Romantic captures what it was like to live in central Arabia before the imposition of austere norms by the Wahhabi authorities in the early twentieth century: tales of robbery and hot pursuit; perilous desert crossings; scenes of exhaustion and …
Arabian Satire
Poetry from 18th-Century Najd
Av Ḥmēdān al-Shwēʿir, Marcel Kurpershoek
Inbunden, 2017
529 kr
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Satirical verse on society and its hypocrisiesA master of satire known for his ribald humor, self-deprecation, and invective verse (hijāʾ), the poet Ḥmēdān al-Shwēʿir was an acerbic critic of his society and its morals. Living in the Najd region of the Arabian Peninsula, Ḥmēdān wrote in an idiom …
Voices from the Desert
Glossary, Indices, and List of Recordings
Inbunden, 2005
3500 kr
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Voices from the Desert is the fifth and concluding volume of Marcel Kurpershoek’s Corpus Oral Poetry & Narratives from Central Arabia. The first volume appeared in 1994.In the Preface the author looks back on his almost twenty years of involvement with Arabian oral culture. He also discusses some …
Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia, Volume 1 Poetry of ad-Dindan
A Bedouin Bard in Southern Najd. An Edition with Translation and Introduction
Häftad, 2022
859 kr
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This work presents the complete collection of oral poetry by ad-Dindān, a bedouin poet of the Duwāsir tribe in southern Najd, transcribed and translated on the basis of taped recordings. The text is representative of a poetic tradition which has remained remarkably close to the desert poetry of the …
Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia, Volume 2 Story of a Desert Knight
The Legend of Šlēwīḥ al-‘Aṭāwi and other ‘Utaybah Heroes. An Edition with Translation and Introduction
Häftad, 2022
859 kr
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The Story of a Desert Knight is the second volume of a trilogy entitled Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia. It is devoted to the narratives told about and the poems composed by Šlēwīḥ al-‘Aṭāwi and his brother Bxīt, both famous desert knights in the middle and second half of the …
Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia, Volume 3 Bedouin Poets of the Dawāsir Tribe
Between Nomadism and Settlement in Southern Najd
Häftad, 2022
832 kr
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This third volume in the author's series Oral Poetry & Narratives from Central Arabia presents and analyses the work of four contemporary Bedouin poets of the Dawāsir tribe in southern Najd. The introductory part discusses the poetry within the context of the Najdi oral tradition, the poets' role …
Voices from the Desert
Glossary, Indices, and List of Recordings
Häftad, 2022
840 kr
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Voices from the Desert is the fifth and concluding volume of Marcel Kurpershoek’s Corpus Oral Poetry & Narratives from Central Arabia. The first volume appeared in 1994.In the Preface the author looks back on his almost twenty years of involvement with Arabian oral culture. He also discusses some …
