{"product_id":"oral-poetry-and-narratives-from-central-arabia-5-volume-set-9789004528888","title":"Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia (5 volume SET)","description":"vol. 1: 978-90-04-52097-4\u003cbr\u003e\nThis work presents the complete collection of oral poetry by ad-Dindān, a bedouin poet of the Duwāsir 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.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nvol. 2: 978-90-04-52098-1\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe Story of a Desert Knight\u003c\/i\u003e is the second volume of a trilogy entitled \u003ci\u003eOral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia\u003c\/i\u003e. It is devoted to the narratives told about and the poems composed by Šlēwīḥ al-‘Aṭāwi and his brother Bxīt, both famous desert knights in the middle and second half of the nineteenth century. The principal source of this book is Šlēwīḥ's great-grandson Xālid, a sheikh of the ‘Utaybah tribe.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nvol. 3: 978-90-04-52099-8\u003cbr\u003e\nThis third volume in the author's series \u003ci\u003eOral Poetry \u0026amp; Narratives from Central Arabia\u003c\/i\u003e presents and analyses the work of four contemporary Bedouin poets of the Dawāsir tribe in southern Najd.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nvol. 4: 978-90-04-52100-1\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eA Saudi Tribal History\u003c\/i\u003e, the fourth volume of the author's series \u003ci\u003eOral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia\u003c\/i\u003e, presents and analyses the oral traditions of the Dawāsir tribal confederation in the area of Wādi ad-Dawāsir, south of Riyadh.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nvol. 5: 978-90-04-52101-8\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eVoices from the Desert \u003c\/i\u003eis the fifth and concluding volume of Marcel Kurpershoek’s Corpus \u003ci\u003eOral Poetry \u0026amp; Narratives from Central Arabia\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nAn \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/referenceworks.brill.com\/display\/db\/opno\"\u003eonline version\u003c\/a\u003e of this work is also available from Brill.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Marcel Kurpershoek","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48269063848187,"sku":"9789004528888","price":321.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/oral-poetry-and-narratives-from-central-arabia-5-volume-set-9789004528888","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}