Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia, Volume 3 Bedouin Poets of the Dawasir Tribe
Between Nomadism and Settlement in Southern Najd
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Biographical note
P. Marcel Kurpershoek is director for the Middle East & North Africa in the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Professor for Politics and Literature in the Arab World at Leiden University. He is the author of The Short Stories of Yusuf Idris (Brill, 1981), The Poetry of ad-Dindan, a Bedouin Bard in Southern Najd (Brill, 1994), The Story of a Desert Knight, the Legend of Shlewih al-‘Atawi and other ‘Utaybah Heroes (Brill,, 1995), and a number of works on Arabia and the Middle East in Dutch.
Reviews
'Kurpershoek's work will be of great interest and usefulness both to the students of Arabian oral literature and to the dialectologist.'
Bruce Ingham, BSOAS.
'This book is a must for a wide variety of readers: social and cultural anthropologists of every hue, but especially of Arabia; literary historians of Arabic; and, last but not least, Arabic dialectologists.'
Çlive Holes, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1998.
'Cet ouvrage estera un témoin précieux d'un monde qui bientôt s'en sera allé!'
Claude Gilliot, Revue des Sciences Philophiques et Theologiques, 1999.
'In sum, this is another superbly executed addition to Kurpershoek's growing oeuvre on Arabian oral culture, imbued with the same understanding of how ancient literary themes and structures are subtly bent to the personalities and outlook of modern poets, and shaped by the pressures fo modern Arabian society and memories of its history.'
Clive Holes, Journal of Royal Asiatic Society, 2000.
Bruce Ingham, BSOAS.
'This book is a must for a wide variety of readers: social and cultural anthropologists of every hue, but especially of Arabia; literary historians of Arabic; and, last but not least, Arabic dialectologists.'
Çlive Holes, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1998.
'Cet ouvrage estera un témoin précieux d'un monde qui bientôt s'en sera allé!'
Claude Gilliot, Revue des Sciences Philophiques et Theologiques, 1999.
'In sum, this is another superbly executed addition to Kurpershoek's growing oeuvre on Arabian oral culture, imbued with the same understanding of how ancient literary themes and structures are subtly bent to the personalities and outlook of modern poets, and shaped by the pressures fo modern Arabian society and memories of its history.'
Clive Holes, Journal of Royal Asiatic Society, 2000.
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This work consists of stories both from Muslim sacred history and collections of tales from a variety of sources – even from The Thousand and One Nights -- used for religious edification or purely for pleasure reading in the Islamic world.
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This translation and study extend our knowlege of the Arabic genre of the maqāma by some years. If translations of the genre are lacking, literary critical studies of it are even rarer. Therefore, the work will be of interest to scholars of Arabic, Spanish, and other literatures, to ...
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An analyses of the evolution of Arabic verse and its relation with Semitic verse, providing the largest so far statistical data of the metrical repertory of Classical Arabic poetry, and offering a new interpretation of the original Arabic metrical theory.
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This two-volume publication provides a unique introduction to the qadisa, a major poetic genre current in Islamic literatures from medieval times to the present; it comprises a volume of papers and an accompanying anthology of 50 poems in 14 languages with English translation.
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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.
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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 ...
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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.
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