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Poems of love and battle by Arabia's legendary warrior From the sixth-century highlands of Najd in the Arabian peninsula, on the eve of the advent of Islam, come the strident cries of a legendary warrior and poet. The black outcast son of an Arab father and an Ethiopian slave mother, 'Anta...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: ʻAntarah ibn Shaddād, active 6th century (Author)
Other Authors: Montgomery, James E. (James Edward), 1962- (Translator), Sieburth, Richard (Translator), Qutbuddin, Tahera (Editor), Cole, Peter, 1957- (writer of foreword.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Arabic
Published: New York : New York University Press, 2018.
Subjects:
Arabic poetry.
Poésie arabe.
LITERARY CRITICISM > African.
Arabic poetry
poetry.
Poetry
Poetry.
Poésie.
Online Access:Texto completo
Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Letter from the General Editor
  • About this Paperback
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • A Note on the Text
  • Maps
  • Map 1: The Tribes of Pre-Islamic Arabia [c. ad 600]
  • Map 2: The Topography of the Poetry of ʻAntarah
  • Notes to the Introduction
  • Al-Aṣmaʻī's Redaction
  • Two Qasidas from Ibn Maymūn's Anthology
  • Poems from al-Baṭalyawsī's Recension
  • Poems from The Epic of ʻAntar
  • Appendix 1
  • Appendix 2
  • Appendix 3
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Concordance of Principal Editions
  • Bibliography
  • Further Reading
  • Index
  • About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute
  • About the Translators
  • The Library of Arabic Literature

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