Classical Poems by Arab Women
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Erscheint vorauss. 29. August 2024
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Arab women poets have been writing since the earliest of times, yet for millennia, their diwans (collected poems) were kept in the shadows.
Spanning more than five thousand years, from the pre-Islamic to the Andalusian periods, Classical Poems by Arab Women presents rarely seen work by over sixty women writers who boldly refused to be silenced. From the sorrowful eulogies of Khansa to the gleeful scorn of Wallada bint al-Mustakfi, this collection offers a rich excursion into the vibrant, exclusively female worlds of pleasure, passion and pain, suppressed for centuries by religious and…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
Arab women poets have been writing since the earliest of times, yet for millennia, their diwans (collected poems) were kept in the shadows.

Spanning more than five thousand years, from the pre-Islamic to the Andalusian periods, Classical Poems by Arab Women presents rarely seen work by over sixty women writers who boldly refused to be silenced. From the sorrowful eulogies of Khansa to the gleeful scorn of Wallada bint al-Mustakfi, this collection offers a rich excursion into the vibrant, exclusively female worlds of pleasure, passion and pain, suppressed for centuries by religious and political bigotry.

With many poems shown here for the first time, this bespoke gift edition celebrates feminine wit and desire and pays homage to the significant contribution Arab women have made to the literary tradition.
Autorenporträt
Abdullah al-Udhari was born in Taiz, Yemen, in 1941. He studied classical Arab literature and Sabaean epigraphy at London University, where he also received a doctorate for his pioneering study, Jahili Poetry before Imru al-Qais (4000 BCE-500 CE), which established him as an authority on early Jahili literature. A literary historian, poet and storyteller, he is also the author of Victims of a Map: A Bilingual Anthology of Arabic Poetry (by Saqi Books), Voice Without Passport, The Arab Creation Myth and Modern Poetry of the Arab World.