Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia, Volume 3 Bedouin Poets of the Dawāsir Tribe: Between Nomadism and Settlement in Southern Najd - Kurpershoek, Marcel
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This third volume in the author's series "Oral Poetry & Narratives from Central Arabia presents and analyses the work of four contemporary Bedouin poets of the Daw?sir tribe in southern Najd. The introductory part discusses the poetry within the context of the Najdi oral tradition, the poets' role in tribal society, and their mirroring of this society's self-image against the background of its rapid economic, social and political transformation, and its relation with the Saudi State. It is followed by the Arabic Text of the poems in transcription, based on taped records, with the English…mehr

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This third volume in the author's series "Oral Poetry & Narratives from Central Arabia presents and analyses the work of four contemporary Bedouin poets of the Daw?sir tribe in southern Najd. The introductory part discusses the poetry within the context of the Najdi oral tradition, the poets' role in tribal society, and their mirroring of this society's self-image against the background of its rapid economic, social and political transformation, and its relation with the Saudi State. It is followed by the Arabic Text of the poems in transcription, based on taped records, with the English translation on the facing page. This is complemented by a substantial glossary, cross-referenced to the Arabic Text, other glossaries and works on the Najdi dialect and poetic idiom, as well as corresponding Classical Arabic lexical materials.
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Autorenporträt
P. Marcel Kurpershoek is director for the Middle East & North Africa in the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Professor for Politics and Literature in the Arab World at Leiden University. He is the author of "The Short Stories of Yusuf Idris" (Brill, 1981), "The Poetry of ad-Dindan, a Bedouin Bard in Southern Najd" (Brill, 1994), "The Story of a Desert Knight, the Legend of Shlewih al- Atawi and other Utaybah Heroes" (Brill, 1995), and a number of works on Arabia and the Middle East in Dutch."