Arabian Hero - Al-Amsa&
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"The heroic deeds and words of a warrior poet of northern Arabia An epic hero and a poet, the semi-legendary Shayi' al-Amsah was a prominent ancestor of the Shammar tribal confederation that stretches across the Great Nafud desert in the northern Arabian Peninsula. Shayi's corpus of extant poems are preserved in narratives about his chivalrous exploits transmitted orally for centuries. In this volume, Marcel Kurpershoek vividly translates the deeds and verses of this compelling poet, based on recordings of late-twentieth century reciters, a testament to Shayi''s prominence as an embodiment of…mehr

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"The heroic deeds and words of a warrior poet of northern Arabia An epic hero and a poet, the semi-legendary Shayi' al-Amsah was a prominent ancestor of the Shammar tribal confederation that stretches across the Great Nafud desert in the northern Arabian Peninsula. Shayi's corpus of extant poems are preserved in narratives about his chivalrous exploits transmitted orally for centuries. In this volume, Marcel Kurpershoek vividly translates the deeds and verses of this compelling poet, based on recordings of late-twentieth century reciters, a testament to Shayi''s prominence as an embodiment of Bedouin virtue, courage, wiliness, and generosity. Born with one eye, Shayi' presents himself as unattractive and unassuming, only to reveal a hero's strength, sagacity, and wiliness. In a number of stories, he is shown hiding his identity, whether in disguise as an impoverished Bedouin or on a camel deliberately made to look mangy and weak. In the oral culture of the Bedouin, the epic cycle of Shayi' al-Amsah delights and instructs listeners through its unmasking of false appearances and its revelation of the hero's true character. Translated into English for the first time, these engaging tales and poems tell of dangerous desert travel, warlike exploits, chivalrous conduct and its opposite, fears of hospitality that defy belief, and convey nuggets of wisdom from the Bedouin manual of survival, making this collection a colorful compendium of the manners and customs of the tribes of northern Arabia"--
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Sh¿yi¿ al-Amsä was a poet from the Naf¿d Desert in northern Arabia who likely lived in the eleventh/seventeenth century. He is widely regarded as an ancestor of the Shammar tribal confederation.