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The Nabati Poetry of the United Arab Emirates
Holes
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Description for The Nabati Poetry of the United Arab Emirates
Hardcover. Nabati poetry, though composed in an artistic variant of ordinary Bedouin speech, historically descends from the pre-Islamic Classical Arabic poetry of antiquity, and its modern exponents still compose in the traditional genres of boasting, praise, satire, elegy, advice and guidance, love and lyric poetry. Editor(s): Holes, Professor Clive; Abu Athera, Said Salman. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 242 x 160 x 19. Weight in Grams: 548.
Nabati poetry is the traditional poetry of the Arab tribes of Arabia and neighbouring areas. Though composed in an artistic variant of ordinary Bedouin speech, historically it is the descendant of the pre-Islamic Classical Arabic poetry of antiquity, and its modern exponents still compose in the traditional genres of boasting, praise, satire, elegy, advice and guidance, love and lyric poetry. Nowadays, there is also a thriving tradition of poetic comment on contemporary social and political issues. This book gives an account of the tradition as practiced in the United Arab Emirates, exemplified by English verse translations of fifty-three poems by ... Read more
Nabati poetry is the traditional poetry of the Arab tribes of Arabia and neighbouring areas. Though composed in an artistic variant of ordinary Bedouin speech, historically it is the descendant of the pre-Islamic Classical Arabic poetry of antiquity, and its modern exponents still compose in the traditional genres of boasting, praise, satire, elegy, advice and guidance, love and lyric poetry. Nowadays, there is also a thriving tradition of poetic comment on contemporary social and political issues. This book gives an account of the tradition as practiced in the United Arab Emirates, exemplified by English verse translations of fifty-three poems by ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Garnet Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
250
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
547g
Number of Pages
250
Place of Publication
Reading, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780863723780
SKU
V9780863723780
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Ref
99-3
About Holes
Clive Holes has been Professor for the Study of the Contemporary Arab World at the University of Oxford since 1997. He has published widely on the Arabic language, both Classical and dialectal, and on Arabic popular literature. In 2009, he and Said Salman Abu Athera published Poetry and Politics in Contemporary Bedouin Society (Ithaca & AUC Press), a study of ... Read more
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