Love poems from the late nineteenth century Arabia . Arabian Romantic reveals the reality of what it was like to reside in central Arabia prior to the imposition of strict rules by the Wahhabi authority in early 20th century.
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It tells tales of robbery and chases, dangerous desert crossings; stories of chaos and exhaustion when water is pumped out of deep wells under extreme conditions; the agony of exhausted and wounded animals that are on the verge of death; once-proud warriors in the hands of their adversaries on the battlefield. These images convey the sorrow of the poet’s heart broken by love as well as painting an evocative picture of the typical Bedouin life.
Ibn Sbayyil (ca. 1853-1933) was a city dweller of the Najd region of the Arabian Peninsula, was a important character in the Nabati poetry tradition. The poetry he wrote, and which is in use today, broke the rigors of the previous generation by combining the idioms of his predecessors and unique touches that reflected his surroundings.
The poem was translated in English in the very first edition through Marcel Kurpershoek, Arabian Romantic will be a delight to readers with a poem that is simple, fluid and poetic, and has been entertaining Arabic readers for more than 100 years.
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Product details
- ASIN : B07H5LQ4LT
- Publisher : NYU Press; Bilingual
- Publication date : October 9, 2018
- Language : English
- File size : 1639 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Not Enabled
- Print length : 403 pages
- Lending : Not Enabled
Abdallah ibn Sbayyil(d. 1352/1933) was poet of the High Najd region in Central Arabia which is in the present Saudi Arabia.
Marcel Kurpershoek is a senior research scholar of New York University Abu Dhabi. An expert in oral poetics and traditions of Arabia He is the writer of five volumes of oral Poetry and narratives from Central Arabia, as in addition to a number of publications related to Middle Eastern history and culture. He served as the Netherlands Ambassador to Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkey as well as Poland and was also the special envoy for Syria from 2015 to 2015. The text in this article refers to the hardcover edition.
