Satire – This exciting volume gathers poems written by Hmedan al-Shwe’ir. He resided in Najd within Najd in the Arabian Peninsula shortly before the rule that was the Wahhabi movement at the start of the 18th century.
The master of the satire genre renowned as a satirist who combines raunchy humor self-deprecation, and invective poems ( hija’), Hmedan was acerbic in his critiques of the morality of society which he expressed poetry that is often called “Nabati,” here a mixture of Najdi the vernacular and archaic language and imagery that date to the beginnings (Hija’) of Arabic poetry.
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The satire of Arabian Satire, Hmedan is mostly focused on things of the day, and he is able to address these issues in various ways such as as the patriarch who sits in charge of the family’s boat as well as its tense group of sailors; as a cartoonish anti-hero who enjoys taking pot shots at the existing order, its hypocrisy and its moral shortcomings as a peasant who tries to keep his palms often without success and without any guarantee of success. He also served as poet who narrates his thoughts in verse about how the world should be.
The poems in Arabian Satire reveal a plucky, headstrong, yet intensely socially committed figure–representative of the traditional Najdi ethos–who infuses his verse with proverbs, maxims, and words of wisdom expressed plainly and conversationally. Hmedan is subsequently often quoted by historians from the Gulf region as well as in anthologies of famous sayings. The first comprehensive translation of this renowned poet.
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A bilingual Arabic-English edition.
Product details
- ASIN : B06XYC186M
- Publisher : NYU Press
- Publication date : December 1, 2017
- Language : English
- File size : 2364 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Not Enabled
- Print length : 208 pages
- Lending : Not Enabled
Hmedan al-Shwe’ir was a late eighteenth-century poet of the region in Najd located in Najd, which is located in the Arabian Peninsula, in what is currently Saudi Arabia.
Marcel Kurpershoek is a senior research researcher of New York University Abu Dhabi. An expert in oral poetics and traditions of Arabia He is the writer of the five volumes oral Poetry and narratives of Central Arabia, as and a variety of publications about Middle Eastern history and culture. He was ambassador to the Netherlands ambassador in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkey as well as Poland as well as a special envoy for Syria until 2015.
Jane Tylus, an expert in the late medieval and early modern European literature as well as religion and culture holds the position of the Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at Yale University. This text refers to an alternative kindle edition.
