Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia, Volume 1 Poetry of Ad-Dindan

A Bedouin Bard in Southern Najd. an Edition with Translation and Introduction
Erscheinungsjahr 1994
ISBN: 978-90-04-09894-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 17/1, 372 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 826 g

Reihe: Studies in Arabic Literature

This work presents the complete collection of oral poetry by ad-DindÄn, a bedouin poet of the DuwÄsir tribe in southern Najd, transcribed and translated on the basis of taped recordings. The text is representative of a poetic tradition which has remained remarkably close to the desert poetry of the early classical age. An extensive glossary, including detailed cross-references to the classical Arabic vocabulary, completes this edition.
The introduction describes DindÄn's somewhat anomalous position in local society as a result of his stubborn attachment to nomadism, his fierce artistic temper, and his unreconstructed bedouin ethos. It also discusses the composition of oral poetry, the 'dÄ«wÄn''s themes and its place in the Najdi tradition, the impact of literacy on the poet's oral work, and the prosodic and linguistic features of the text.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kurpershoek, Marcel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Literatur des Nahen Ostens & Nordafrikas

Über Autor(innen)

Marcel Kurpershoek is a senior research fellow at New York University Abu Dhabi. A specialist in the oral traditions and poetry of Arabia, he is the author of the five-volume Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia (Brill), as well as several books on Middle Eastern history and culture. He served as Netherlands ambassador to Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkey, and Poland, and as special envoy to Syria until 2015.