Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia, Volume 4 Saudi Tribal History
Honour and Faith in the Traditions of the Dawāsir
Biographical note
P. Marcel Kurpershoek is a member of the Netherlands Foreign Service and Professor for Politics and Literature in the Arab World at Leiden University. In addition to his scholarly work he has published a travelogue, Arabia of the Bedouins (Saqi Books, 2001).
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'…a superb piece of work…'
Clive Holes, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2004.
'...this solid academic work represents a remarkable effort of a fully dedicated and able scholar.'
Ḍirghᾱm Ḥ. Sbait, Asian Folklore Studies, 2003.
Clive Holes, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2004.
'...this solid academic work represents a remarkable effort of a fully dedicated and able scholar.'
Ḍirghᾱm Ḥ. Sbait, Asian Folklore Studies, 2003.
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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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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.
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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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