Arabian Romantic: Poems on Bedouin Life and Love - Hardcover

$74.69

Arabian Romantic: Poems on Bedouin Life and Love - Hardcover

Name: Arabian Romantic: Poems on Bedouin Life and Love - Hardcover
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SKU: 9781479837663
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by ʿabdallāh Ibn Sbayyil (Author), Marcel Kurpershoek (Editor), Marcel Kurpershoek (Translator)

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 chaos when water is raised from deep wells under harsh conditions; the distress of wounded and worn-out animals on the brink of perdition; once proud warriors who are at the mercy of their enemy on the field of battle. Such images lend poignancy to the suffering of the poet's love-stricken heart, while also painting a vivid portrait of typical Bedouin life.

Ibn Sbayyil (ca. 1853-1933), a town dweller from the Najd region of the Arabian Peninsula, was a key figure in the Nabati poetic tradition. His poetry, which is still recited today, broke with the artifice of the preceding generation by combining inherited idiom and original touches reflecting his environment. Translated into English for the first time by Marcel Kurpershoek, Arabian Romantic will delight readers with a poetry that is direct, fluent, and expressive, and that has entertained Arabic speakers for over a century.

A bilingual Arabic-English edition.

Author Biography

ʿAbdallāh ibn Sbayyil (Author)
ʿAbdallāh ibn Sbayyil (d. 1352/1933) was a poet from the High Najd region in Central Arabia, in what is now Saudi Arabia.

Marcel Kurpershoek (Edited and Translated by)
Marcel Kurpershoek is a specialist in the oral traditions and poetry of Arabia. He is the author of the five-volume Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia, as well as several books on Middle Eastern history and culture. He is the editor and translator of Arabian Satire by Ḥmēdān al-Shwēʿir and Arabian Romantic by ʿAbdallāh ibn Sbayyil. He served as Netherlands ambassador to Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkey, and Poland, and as special envoy to Syria until 2015.

Number of Pages: 256

Dimensions: 1.3 x 9 x 6.3 IN

Publication Date: October 09, 2018

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