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The Voice from the Desert is the fifth and concluding volume of the Corpus Poetry & Narratives from Central Arabia. It presents a consolidated Glossary and the Indices for the entire series. In a Preface the author looks back on his twenty years of research in Arabian oral culture.
€322.00$417.00
A Saudi Tribal History, the fourth volume of Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia, presents the oral traditions of the Dawāsir tribal confederation which continue to shape its members' collective consciousness. It comprises an analytical introduction, the Arabic text in transcription ...
€162.00$210.00
This volume presents and analyses the work of four contemporary Saudi Bedouin poets, based on taped records, with special emphasis on this poetry's reflection of the tribal society's evolving self-image at a time of rapid social, economic, and political transformation.
€162.00$210.00
This volume presents in translation and transcription the oral text of narratives about and poems by Šlēwīḥ, one of Arabia's most famous nineteenth-century robber barons, recorded by Xālid, a sheikh of the ‘Utaybah tribe of Saudi Arabia and the great-grandson of Šlēwīḥ.
€162.00$210.00
This work presents the complete collection of oral poetry of a bedouin poet in Central Arabia—transcribed and translated on the basis of taped recordings—, an extensive glossary, and chapters on i.a. the Najdi tradition in poetry, linguistic features, and prosody.
€102.00$132.00
Drawing on recent debates about the methods of book history, this book explores in detail the foundation and development of Chetham's Library, in Manchester, from its foundation in 1655 until the end of the seventeenth century.
€125.00$162.00
An analysis of the imagery, rethorical devices, and structural patterns in the Dīwān of the 11th-12th century acclaimed Andalusian poet, Ibn Khafājah, with special emphasis om his innovative use of the poetic tradition.
€21.25$30.00
This book may be considered to be Volume II of the Hikayat Muhammad Hanafiyyah (1975). This publication contains an abbreviated translation of the Malay text. The translation is annotated to enable a running comparison with the Persian original. Moreover, the commentaries that follow some of the ...
€14.90$21.00
Op zoek naar een nieuw perspectief in hun leven vertrokken de jeugdige Hongaren László Székely en zijn neef István Radnai in april 1914 naar het aan Sumatras oostkust gelegen Deli met zijn plantages. Uit het in Medan, Delis hoofdstad, door Radnai geschreven dagboek worden in dit boek enkele ...