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Everyman Arabic Poems
Book SynopsisThe Arabic poetic legacy is as vast as it is deep, spanning a period of fifteen centuries in regions from Morocco to Iraq. As a unifying principle, editor Marlé Hammond has selected eighty poems reflecting desire and longing of various kinds: for the beloved, for the divine, for the homeland, and for change and renewal. Poets include the legendary pre-Islamic warrior 'Antara Ibn Shaddad, medieval Andalusian poet Ibn Zaydun, the wandering poet Al-A’sha, and the influential Egyptian Romantic Ahmad Zaki Abu Shadi. Here too are literary giants of the past century: Khalil Jibran, author of the bestselling The Prophet; popular Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani; Palestinian feminist Fadwa Tuqan; Mahmoud Darwish, bard of occupation and exile; acclaimed iconoclast Adonis, and more. In their evocations of heroism, nostalgia, mysticism, grief, and passion, the poems gathered here transcend the limitations of time and place.
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Random House USA Inc Arabic Poems
Book SynopsisA bilingual anthology of poems from the sixth century to the present, Arabic Poems is a one-of-a-kind showcase of a fascinating literary tradition, here presented in stunning pocket-sized hardcover, with English and Arabic on facing pages. The Arabic poetic legacy is as vast as it is deep, spanning a period of fifteen centuries in regions from Morocco to Iraq. Themes of love, nature, religion, and politics recur in works drawn from the pre-Islamic oral tradition through poems anticipating the recent Arab Spring.Editor Marlé Hammond has selected more than fifty poems reflecting desire and longing of various kinds: for the beloved, for the divine, for the homeland, and for change and renewal. Poets include the legendary pre-Islamic warrior ‘Antara, medieval Andalusian poet Ibn Zaydun, the mystical poet Rabi‘a al-‘Adawiyya, and the influential Egyptian Romantic Ahmad Zaki Abu Shadi. Here too are literary giants of the past century: Khalil Jibran, author of the best-selling The Prophet; popular Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani; Palestinian feminist Fadwa Tuqan; Mahmoud Darwish, bard of occupation and exile; acclaimed iconoclast Adonis; and more. In their evocations of heroism, nostalgia, mysticism, grief, and passion, the poems gathered here transcend the limitations of time and place.Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.
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Cambridge University Press Arabic Poetry A Primer for Students
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1965, this is an introductory book for university students of Arabic literature. It begins with a substantial introduction in English by Professor Arberry on the development, nature, forms and rhythms of Arabic poetry. The main body of the book is an anthology of Arabic poems in the original, from the sixth century onwards, giving examples of the work of some thirty of the greatest Arab poets. Each poem has a literal English translation on the facing page; the notes, on points of language and style, are placed at the foot across the whole opening. Biographical notes on the poets are placed at the end of the book.Table of ContentsAuthor's note; Introduction; Text, Translation and Notes: 1. Al-Samau'al; 2. Al-Nābigha; 3. 'Antara; 4. Al-Khansā'; 5. 'Umar Ibn Abī Rabī'a; 6. Bashshār Ibn Burd; 7. Abū Nuwās; 8. Abu 'L-'Atāhiya; 9. Abū Tammām; 10. Ibn Al-Rūmī; 11. Al-Buhturī; 12. Ibn Al-Mu'tazz; 13. Al-Mutanabbī; 14. Abū Firās; 15. Al-Sharīf Al-Radī; 16. Mihyār Al-Dailamī; 17. Al-Ma'arrī; 18. Ibn Zaidūn; 19. Ibn Al-Khaiyāt; 20. Ibn Khafāja; 21. Ibn Zuhr; 22. Ibn 'Unain; 23. Ibn Al-Fārid; 24. Bahā' Al-Dīn Xuhair; 25. Ibn Sahl; 26. Ibn Zākūr; 27. Al-Bārūdī; 29. Shauqī; 30. Matrān; 31. Al-Rusāfī; Biographical notes.
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MI - New York University A Demon Spirit Arabic Hunting Poems
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LEGARE STREET PR A Collection Of Modern Arabic Stories Ballads Poems And Proverbs
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Edinburgh University Press The Arabic Prose Poem
Book SynopsisHuda J. Fakhreddine explores the 'new genre' of the Arabic prose poem as a poetic practice and a critical lens. Fakhreddine examines the history of the prose poem, its claims of autonomy and distance from its socio-political context, and the anxiety and scandal it generated.
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Saqi Books Classical Poems by Arab Women
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Cambridge University Press Poems of AlMutanabbi
Book SynopsisAl-Mutanabbi (AD 915â965), though universally considered the greatest of all the Arab poets, has seldom been translated or discussed outside Arab countries. This study uses the same format as and is intended to supplement Professor Arberry's Arabic Poetry: A Primer for Students. The introduction discusses Al-Mutanabbi's life, style, influence and critics. There follows a selection from his poems, in the original Arabic, with a literal translation into English on the facing page and notes on points of language and style at the foot. There is also a concluding chapter on textual variants, the problems of translation and a bibliography. Students of Arabic will find this a convenient introduction to one of the classics of the literature.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Texts and translations; Textual variants; Bibliographical notes; On translating Al-Mutanabbi.
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Independently Published Treasures of Modern Arabic Poetry
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Edinburgh University Press The Arabic Prose Poem
Book SynopsisHuda J. Fakhreddine explores the 'new genre' of the Arabic prose poem as a poetic practice and a critical lens. Fakhreddine examines the history of the prose poem, its claims of autonomy and distance from its socio-political context, and the anxiety and scandal it generated.Trade Review"Huda Fakhreddine has given us a splendid apologia of modern Arabic poetry's decisive step into the future. Her impeccable critical voice brims with validating avant-garde conviction as she reveals the fascinating drama of a series of tensing manifestos of a new Arabic poetic modernism. The Arabic Prose Poem will remain as a milestone in Arabic literary critical studies." -Jaroslav Stetkevych, Professor Emeritus of Arabic Literature, The University of Chicago
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Columbia University Press Modern Arabic Poetry Paper
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The high quality of the translation gives the poems an English texture with no loss of their Arabic authenticity... a fine work and a major contribution, much needed and long awaited..." International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies [Modern Arabic Poetry] establishes new standards of sensitivity, accuracy, and readability. World Literature TodayTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments IntroductionPart I: Poets Before the FiftiesIlya Abu Madi The Human Clay The PhoenixUmar Abu Risha A Roman Temple An EagleIlyas Abu Shabaka You or I? This Is My Wine I Love YouAl-Akhtal al-Saghir The Wisdom of Life Hind and her MotherSa'id 'Acql Do Not Show Your Love More Beautiful Than Your Eyes Dark Beauty From: The Book of RosesBadawi al-Jabal Dark Mirage The Visit Immortality BeautyAl Tijani Yusuf Bashir Tormented Mystic Memories of the Village SchoolIlyas Farhat Quatrains My Burned Suit Salma WildernessGibran Kahlil Gibran Veiled Land Earth The Seven Stages Fame The PoetHafiz Ibrahim Describing a SuitMuhammad M. al-Jawahiri Come Down, Darkness Lullaby for the HungryMutran Khalil Mutran Boycott EveningAhmad al-Safi al-Najafi Where is the Guard? The Pleasures of Darkness The Ship of Life The MothIbrahim Naji Farewell OblivionAmin Nakhla To the Beloved Grown Past Youth Black SongMikha'il al-Rasafi Poem to al-Raihani The Abyss of DeathAbu al-Qasim al-Shabbi Life's Will Quatrains from "Song of Ecstacy"Ahman Shauqi Bois de Boulogne Thoughts on Schoolchildren An Andalusian Exile'Ali Mahmud Taha The Blind Musician Egyptian SerenadeIbrahim Tuqan The Martyr PerplexityJamil S. al-Zahawi Both StrangersPart II: Poets After the FiftiesHasan 'Abdallah I Remember Having LovedMuhammad 'Abd al-Hayy Ode of SignsSalah 'Abd al-Sabur Expectation: Night and Day The Gist of the Story The People of my Country Winter Song The Sun and the Woman'Abd al-Razzaq 'Abd al-Wahid Dreaded Road Reaching Forty You Rise Among Truths Shauqi Abi Shaqra Water for the Family House The Student FugueAdunis A Mirror to Khalida Beginning Speech A Song Mihyar, A King A Grave for New York'Ali Ja'far al-Allaq Poet Lady of ChaosMuhammad al-As'ad Gardens for the Fire and the Rain The Princess'Abd-Allah al-Baraduni From Exile to Exile A Rose From Al-Mutannabi's BloodSaleen Barakat Dilana and Diram The Wild Goat The Cows of Heaven The Greyhound The Hoopoe bird The Flamingo The Squirrel'Abd al-Wahhab al-Bayyati The Impossible Luzumiyya The Birth of Aisha and Her Death Elegy for AishaMohammad Bennis The Second Coming Belonging to a New FamilySargon Boulus Lighter Poem My Father's Dream SiegeMahmoud al-Buraikan Tale of the Assyrian State Man of the Stone CityAhmad Dahbur In Memory of 'Iziddin al-Qalaq The Death of the ShoemakerMahmoud Darwish Diary of a Palestinian Wound Bread Beirut Poems After BeirutZuhur Dixon Overture Dialogue of the Night of the Roses Season of Beginning and End Two Hands on the WaterAmal Dunqul The Scaffold Corner Tomorrow Trains The City A Wrecked ShipSalah Fa'iq PoemsMuhammad al-Faituri The Story Incident The Question and the Answer The Dervish The Closed Door A Scream The VisionMuhammad al-Ghuzzi Female Quatrains for Joy Your Eyes A Dream The Pen My Sister Taghore The Beggar
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Independently Published Sufi Poems of the Great Arabic Poet Ibn 'Arabi: (Large Print & Large Format Edition)
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Taylor & Francis Arabic and Hebrew Love Poems in AlAndalus
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University of California Press An Anthology of Modern Arabic Poetry
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Eland Publishing Ltd Arabia: A Thousand Years of Arabic Verse
Book SynopsisEven before Islam, poetry was at the heart of Arabic culture. It spread and developed wherever the Arabic language came to be spoken, from Damascus to Fez, Baghdad to Cairo as well as in the Arabian heartland. This book takes us on a poetic journey through the Classical age of Arabic poetry, from about the year 600 AD to about 1000 AD. Poignant images of solitude, impossible love and the austere beauty of the desert pervade Arabic poetry from its beginnings, even when the poet lived in an urbane, courtly milieu. There are mystical poems, and blasphemous ones; war poems, political ones; satires, joke poems and overwrought if ingenious nature poems.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Poetry
Book SynopsisComprised of contributions from leading international scholars, The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Poetry incorporates political, cultural, and theoretical paradigms that help place poetic projects in their socio-political contexts as well as illuminate connections across the continuum of the Arabic tradition. This volume grounds itself in the present moment and, from it, examines the transformations of the fifteen-century Arabic poetic tradition through readings, re-readings, translations, reformulations, and co-optations. Furthermore, this collection aims to deconstruct the artificial modern/pre-modern divide and to present the Arabic poetic practice as live and urgent, shaped by the experiences and challenges of the twenty-first century and at the same time in constant conversation with its long tradition. The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Poetry actively seeks to destabilize binaries such as that of East-West in contributions that shed light on the interactions of theTable of ContentsPrefaceArabic Poetry in Late Antiquity: The Rāʾiyya of Imruʾ al-QaysPamela KlasovaParody and the Creation of the Muḥdath GhazalAhmad AlmallahDescription of Architecture in Classical Arabic Poetry from the Perspective of Interarts StudiesAkiko SumiAndalusī Heterodoxy and Colloquial Arabic Poetry: “Zajal 145” by Ibn Quzmān (d. AH 555 / AD 1160)James T. MonroeAndalusi Hebrew Poetry and the Arabic Poetic TraditionRoss BrannWa-matā ilā dhāka al-maqāmi wuṣūlu: Poetry, Performance and the Prophet in the Andalusian Music Tradition of MoroccoCarl DavilaIbn Khamīs and the Poetics of Nostalgia in the Tilimsāniyyāt (Poems on Tlemcen)Nizar F. HermesThe Homeland at the Threshold of World LiteratureYaseen NooraniKaʿb ibn Zuhayr Weeps for Sultan Murad IV: Baghdad, Heritage, and the Ottoman Empire in Maʿrūf al-Ruṣāfī’s PoetryC. Ceyhun ArslanLewis Awad Breaks Poetry’s Back in Plutoland (1947)Levi ThompsonThe Ṣaʿālīk Poets of Modern Iraq: The Vagabonds Ḥusayn Mardān and Jān DammūSuneela MubayiCinematography in Modern Arabic Poetry: Redefining the Philosophy and Dynamics of Poetic ImagerySayed ElsisiDisturbing Vision: Zarqāʾ al-Yamāma and Semiotics of Denial in Modern and Contemporary Arabic PoetryClarissa BurtThe Poet as Palm Tree: Muḥammad al-Thubaytī and the Reimagining of Saudi IdentityHatem Alzahrani
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De Gruyter Variance in Arabic Manuscripts: Arabic Didactic Poems from the Eleventh to the Seventeenth Centuries - Analysis of Textual Variance and Its Control in the Manuscripts
Book SynopsisIn Arabic and Islamic studies, the subject of variance in general and that of textual variation in particular has not been investigated exhaustively so far. In the present book the variation in texts of the “closed transmission” will be studied, focusing on a small corpus of didactic and model poems, with a view to establishing what degree of text stability and change was allowed by the medium manuscript. Categories of variance (relating to work-titles, text, number of verses and their sequence, page-layout, context) and the means of controlling them in the manuscripts of the poems are identified and detailed descriptions of the copies are given.The monograph also includes a presentation of some major traits of the cultural background to the study of Arabic didactic poetry and of its dissemination in which memorization has played a crucial role. The intended readers, editors and other users of manuscripts, are helped to acquaint themselves with the methods employed in the manuscripts to control variation and they are given an overview of the large spectrum of Arabic didactic poetry and of its place in the traditional culture of learning in Islamicate societies.
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HardPress Publishing The Poetry of the Arabs of Spain 1
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Ibn Arabi Selected Poems
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University of Notre Dame Press The Hunt in Arabic Poetry
Book SynopsisAmong the world's major literary traditions, Arabic poetry is perhaps unique in that the theme of the hunt runs in a continuous, if uneven, current from the pre-Islamic, oral tradition, dating as far back as the fifth century CE, through the coming of Islam in the seventh century and the Umayyad and ''Abbasid caliphates, ultimately serving as a classical substrate for the radical Modernism of the twentieth century. This striking continuity of theme and motif of the pursuerthe hunter, companions, his steed, hounds, or falconand the pursued, whether the prey be oryx, onager, gazelle, hare, quail, or fox, is subject to dramatic transformations of poetic genre, structure, and sensibility throughout the arc of Arab cultural history. Through elegant translations and compelling interpretations, Jaroslav Stetkevych brings this dynamic Arabic tradition fully into the purview of contemporary cultural and humanistic studies. In the chapters of Part I of The Hunt in Arabic Poetry,Trade Review"Jaroslav Stetkevych's The Hunt in Arabic Poetry is an astounding achievement. Not only does he map the genealogy of the hunt as a poetic preoccupation with a number of thematic and semiotic markers and mechanisms, he also draws a history of cultural complexity through significant temporal signposts that happen to reflect on Arab political and social life. In the end, reading his book is no less than studying Arab cultural history through one significant poetic endeavor that distinguishes it among other cultures." —Muhsin al-Musawi, Columbia University"In The Hunt in Arabic Poetry, Jaroslav Stetkevych argues for creative evolution and adaption of a little known and little understood genre. He demonstrates how Arabic poets took a pre-Islamic theme found in the rahil (quest) section of the Arabic ode and transformed it into a powerful rhetoric about wanting and pursuing, evoking the lyricism of yearning, and beyond that to metalanguage. The translations are consistently elegant, mood sensitive, and works of literature in their own right." —Samer M. Ali, University of Michigan"Jaroslav Stetkevych traces the development of the hunting theme in Arabic poetry from its remote beginnings in pre-Islamic Arabia to the present. He shows how certain social and historical factors, predominant in each period, helped to shape the poet's compositions, making them highly original with respect to what preceded them. Stetkevych's book is destined to become a lasting and most welcome contribution to Arabic literary criticism, and one that illuminates a theme central to the study and appreciation of Arabic poetry." —James T. Monroe, emeritus, University of California, Berkeley"The Hunt in Arabic Poetry is a masterful meditation not only upon the hunt motif but also upon the deeper poetic structures in which the hunt motif is embedded, through which it emerges, and with which it is not infrequently in tension. Throughout this book, which readers interested in Arabic poetry may find themselves coming back to again and again, Stetkevych follows his theoretically challenging and elegantly written arguments with close readings of specific poems that are presented in both Arabic and in the author's meticulously faithful and materially vivid translations. The achievement of The Hunt in Arabic Poetry mirrors that of his earlier book, Zephyrs of Najd, which engaged the Arabic Nasib—the elegiac remembrance of the lost beloved—with the same qualities of theoretical depth, conceptual sweep, and brilliant close readings." —Michael Sells, John Henry Barrows Professor of Islamic History and Literature, University of Chicago“Throughout, Jaroslav Stetkevych allows the poems to speak for themselves both in their original Arabic texts and in his extraordinarily poetic English translations, as he adeptly and patiently guides us to a deeper understanding of the tardiyyah, one of the classical genres of Arabic poetry." —Journal of Arabic Literature"Stetkevych traces his theme in detail—illustrating with Arabic and English versions—showing the subtle evolution of tone, structure and cultural meanings of the hunt motif." — Choice
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New York University Press Classical Arabic Literature
Book SynopsisPresents a rich assortment of classical Arabic poems and literary prose, from pre-Islamic times until the 18th century, with short introductions to guide non-specialist students and informative endnotes and bibliography for advanced scholars.Trade ReviewRanges over more than seven centuries, and flows with surprises and delights, aching love poems and weird, cruel fables, and Thomas Browneian reflections on the nature of Flies, or the relations between mystics and elephants, all beguilingly rendered and scrupulously commented. -- Marina Warner * Times Literary Supplement *Van Gelder's translations are pleasant and clear, which is no small feat, especially with poetry... A work that will be enjoyed by many scholars and lay readers. -- Letizia Osti * Middle East Literatures *The perfect collection to launch the Library of Arabic Literatureof interest to the scholar, the student, and the general reader. Its coverage is excellent, both in terms of historical sweep and generic variety. -- Richard Sieburth, Professor of Comparative Literature, New York UniversityThe translations of this volume are a marvel, and often a tour de forceprecise, highly readable and evocative, with the benefit of well-honed use of iambic and other rhythmic devices. Though Van Gelder reminds us that he is not a native English speaker, his English strikes me as no less superlative than, say, Nabokovs mastery of the language * The National *Van Gelder succeeds in maintaining a high standard for literary translation This anthology is remarkable in its attention to the intricate patterns of meter and rhyme in Arabic poetry and in its combination of familiar and unfamiliar texts. Highly recommended. * Choice *Promises to be an invaluable mine of knowledge for scholars and general readers who need an introduction to the universal appeal and validity of the enlightening and enlightened literary heritage of the Arabic-Islamic intellectual tradition. * Journal of Islamic Studies *By and large, this volume, and indeed the entire series, promises to be an invaluable mine of knowledge for scholars and general readers who need an introduction to the universal appeal and validity of the enlightening and enlightened literary heritage of the Arabic-Islamic intellectual tradition. * Journal of Islamic Studies *Table of ContentsLetter from the General EditorAcknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Notes to the Introduction Verse ProseNotes Chronology Glossary of Names and TermsBibliography Further Reading Index About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute About the Typefaces About the Translator
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Michigan State University Press Love Is My Savior: The Arabic Poems of Rumi
Book SynopsisThis new volume of Rumi’s works, the first-ever English translation of his Arabic poems, will be exciting for the newcomer to Rumi’s verses as well as to readers already familiar with his mystical philosophy. The poems take the reader on a journey of spiritual exploration, ecstatic union, cruel rejection, and mystic reconciliation. Rumi reveals his soul and welcomes everyone to his spiritual feast.This dual-language volume opens a treasury of Rumi’s mystic thought and startling poetry. His verses pulsate with desire and longing, with sensuality, and with ecstatic celebration. Rumi found in his mystic poetry a vehicle for the expression of the endless spiritual bounties of love. He placed love at the center of his faith and doctrine, and he pronounced it to be the goal of his life and the only form of true worship. This collection is stunningly rendered in English by an award-winning poet and a distinguished translator of Arabic poetry.
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Anthology of Classical Arabic Poetry From PreIslamic Times to AlShushtari
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Harrassowitz Classical Arabic Begging Poetry and Sakwa,
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Arabic Poetry Trajectories of Modernity and Tradition Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures
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Interlink Publishing Group Inc The Poetry of Arab Women
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Poetry
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Cambridge University Press A Critical Introduction to Modern Arabic Poetry
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Cambridge University Press Mannerism in Arabic Poetry
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Arc Publications Midnight and Other Poems
Book SynopsisMidnight and Other Poems is the first full-length poetry collection to be published in the UK by this remarkable Palestinian writer, previously known to English-language readers for his highly-acclaimed autobiography I Saw Ramallah (Bloomsbury, 2004). "Midnight and Other Poems is the most powerful and interesting collection I have read for a very long time."R.V. Bailey"Never mind that I speak not a word of Arabic. Mourid Barghouti's poetry shines through the translation. There are arresting images on almost every page."Raymond HumphreysMourid Barghouti has spent many years in exile, and his long poem 'Midnight' is a rich montage of images of the land of his birth and the strong emotional responses to which these images give rise. Here, anger, frustration and despair are juxtaposed with yearning and tenderness in Barghouti's powerful and evocative account of occupation, violence and oppression. The shorter poems which comprise the second half of the book are, by turns, dramatic and hard-hitting, contemplative and reflective, and together present an equally powerful and graphic picture of the poet's homeland.In Radwa Ashour's excellent translation, and with a helpful introduction by Guy Mannes-Abbott who recorded a number of conversations with the poet over a period of several weeks, this selection of Mourid Barghouti's poems marks an important addition to the body of Arabic literature available to English-language readers world-wide. Mourid Barghouti was born in July 1944 in Deir Ghassana near Ramallah, Palestine. He has published twelve books of poetry, the last of which is Muntasaf al-Layl / Midnight, Beirut, 2005. His Collected Works came out in Beirut in 1997. A Small Sun, his first poetry book in English translation, was published by The Aldeburgh Poetry Trust in 2003. In 2000, he was awarded the Palestine Award for Poetry. He lives in Cairo.About the translator:Radwa Ashour is an Egyptian writer and scholar, currently Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Ain Shams University, Cairo. Well-known as a novelist and writer of short stories, she has also co-edited a major work on Arab Women's literature. As a translator, she has translated into English much of the poetry of Mourid Barghouti, to whom she has been married for many years. In 2007, Radwa Ashour was awarded the Constantine Cavafy International Prize for Literature. About the introducer:Guy Mannes-Abbott has written about writers and thinkers from across the world for The Independent, Guardian, New Statesman and other publications. He has written catalogue essays on contemporary Indian art, speculative essays about London and taught at the AA School of Architecture in London. He is the author of a series of widely published texts – poems, stories and aphorisms called e.things. Table of ContentsPreface by Ruth Padel. Introduction by Guy Mannes-Abbott.Part One: Midnight. Part Two, Other Poems: Interpretations, It's Also Fine, Old Age, Sleeping Woman, In the Neighbouring Room, The Three Cypress Trees, Sand Kingdom, Normal Journey, A Night Unlike Others, How Are You?, I have No Problem, Eagerness, Third World, The Stab, Prison, he Drowned Ship, Counsel, The Merciful, The Giraffe's Head, Give Me Your Boots, Narcissus' Hat, The Pillow, Silence.Biographical Notes
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University of Pennsylvania Press The Emergence of Arabic Poetry
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Cambridge University Press Mannerism in Arabic Poetry
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Michigan State University Press Desert Sorrows: Poems by Tayseer al-Sboul
Book SynopsisNo poet of the twentieth century has captured the experience of Arabic-speaking people in the modern world better than Tayseer al-Sboul. One of Jordan’s most celebrated writers, educated in that country, as well as in Lebanon and Syria, he faced the dilemmas and contradictions of the Arab world during the Cold War years. Caught between tradition and modernity, he dreamed of a great Arab nation. With unflinching courage and brutal honesty, he revealed his life in poems: his family, his connection with his homeland, his rejection of tradition, his flirtation with leftist ideology, his love affairs, his politics, his experience of war and defeat, his inner struggle, his quest for truth.Through al-Sboul’s poems, we understand the struggle of one Arab man to make sense of a world gone mad. Caught between the restrictions of traditional life, the cruelty of war, and the political oppression of the modern Middle East, he was determined to find his own peace, though it proved impossible. After the 1973 Arab-Israeli conflict, he lost all hope and took his own life. Featuring facing-page Arabic-English translations, this volume brings al-Sboul’s poetry into English for the first time.
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C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd Poetry and Politics in the Modern Arab World
Book SynopsisThe representation in poetic form of political events and ideas in the Arab world since the nineteenth century is this book's principal theme. Atef Alshaer demonstrates an integral connection between poetry and politics, reflecting the holistic character of Arab culture as well as the longstanding embodiment of poetry in the socio-political life of the Arabs. The shared Arabic language and common cultural heritage that Arabs have encompass and mirror widespread Arab concerns about their societies and their cultural and political development. Poetry as the essence of language served as an illuminating, and often mobilising, medium of expression which brought the tensions and aspirations of each age to the fore. Beginning with the colonial empires and their colonisation of the Arab world, Alshaer illuminates the perennial concerns of major Arab poets with their societies. He discusses the poetic representation of the end of the Ottoman Empire, the onset of Arab nationalism, French and British colonialism, Palestine and the struggle against Zionism, as well as Arab inter-relationships, the emergence of Islamism and Islamist movements, and finally the Arab Spring.Each chapter high- lights the mainstream historical, political and intellectual currents of the time and interprets them alongside poems and poets that evoked and consecrated them.Trade Review'By reading Alshaer's analysis of poetry under the Ottoman Empire and colonialism the reader can draw many parallels between the Arab World then and today ... [the book] offers not only a detailed insight into the poets of the time, but the politics of the time.' * Middle East Monitor *
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LEGARE STREET PR Arabian Poetry for English Readers
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The Islamic Texts Society Sufi Poems: A Mediaeval Anthology
Book SynopsisSufi Poems is a selection of poems from the golden period of Sufism especially chosen and translated from the Arabic by the distinguished scholar Dr Martin Lings. Dr Lings is the author of numerous best-selling works on Sufism and is a published poet in his own right. Including poems here translated for the first time, Sufi Poems brings together selections from the giants of Sufism; for example, Rabia, Hallaj, Ibn al-Farid and Ibn Arabi. Sufi Poems is published as bi-lingual Arabic-English edition, which will be of interest to all those wishing to read the original Arabic and will also be helpful for university students of Arabic.
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University of Arkansas Press Questions and Their Retinue: Selected Poems of
Book SynopsisHatif Janabi’s poems are passionate, jolting, apocalyptic, and painful. They deal with war and death, perception and truth, drawing from his family life, his exile in Poland, the Gulf War, violence in Iraq, and his experience in the United States.The speaker in many of Janabi’s poems moves from a confrontational stance to one of resigned desperation, and from coyness to deep longing, where, occasionally, hope surfaces. The associative processes and the often bizarre surreal imagery he employs are very effective in expressing his profound sense of political and spiritual alienation. Janabi is among a generation of Arab poets who, because of censorship, can speak only obliquely about the harsh reality of their lives. In these poems he has created symbolic landscapes that attempt to reveal the political, social, and psychological stresses with which suffering people live.
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Legare Street Press Die Hellstrahlenden Plejaden Am Arabischen Poetischen Himmel Oder Die Sieben Am Tempel Zu Mekka Aufgehangenen Arabischen Gedichte
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Palgrave MacMillan Us The Poetics of the Obscene in Premodern Arabic Poetry Ibn alHajjaj and Sukhf Ibn alajjj and Sukhf Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
Book SynopsisThe book is the first study of the 10th century Iraqi poet Ibn al-Hajjaj who popularized a new genre of obscene and scatological parody (sukhf) and is considered the most obscene poet in Arabic literature. Antoon traces the genealogy of this fascinating genre in and examines its rise by placing it in its sociopolitical context.Trade Review"Exciting and vital to the unearthing of new trajectories for the Arabic literary tradition . . . [Antoon's book] is a timely and uplifting work, which must be taken seriously and built upon." - Journal of the Society for Contemporary Thought and the Islamicate World 'Sinan Antoon is among the few scholars who in recent years have embarked on the unprejudiced study of what in Arabic is called muj?n or sukhf. It is not surprising that until recently in the West, and still in most Islamic countries, the study of obscenity and scatology was hampered by moral and religious scruples, aided by aesthetic prejudice. This makes the present study all the more welcome and important. Scholarly and thorough, it is also readable (if one can stomach the poems with their unstoppable outpouring of filth), written in an accessible style, neither marred by the excessive use of jargon nor suffering from being clothed in a straightjacket of Theory. The numerous translations of poems are reliable and accompanied by the Arabic text in transliteration.' - Geert Jan van Gelder, Laudian Professor of Arabic, University of Oxford, UK "This groundbreaking study opens up for the first time an important and fascinating, but heretofore studiously avoided, aspect of classical Arabic literature." - Everett K. Rowson, Associate Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University, USATable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Ibn al-?ajj?j and Sukhf: Genealogies 2. Parodying the Tradition 3. Sukhf in Mad?? 4. Sukhf as sukhf : Abü Nuw?s, Mujün and Ibn al-?ajj?j 5. Sukhf , Scatology and Society Conclusion
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New York University Press Arabian Satire
Book SynopsisSatirical verse on society and its hypocrisiesA master of satire known for his ribald humor, self-deprecation, and invective verse (hija?), the poet ?medan al-Shwe?ir was an acerbic critic of his society and its morals. Living in the Najd region of the Arabian Peninsula, ?medan wrote in an idiom widely referred to as Naba?i, here a mix of Najdi vernacular and archaic vocabulary and images dating to the origins of Arabic poetry. In Arabian Satire, ?medan is mostly concerned with worldly matters and addresses these in different guises: as the patriarch at the helm of the family boat and its unruly crew; as a picaresque anti-hero who revels in taking potshots at the established order, its hypocrisy, and its failings; as a peasant who labors over his palm trees, often to no avail and with no guarantee of success; and as a poet recording in verse how he thinks things ought to be.The poems in Arabian Satire reveal a plucky, headstrong, yet intenselyTrade ReviewColorful contrasts abound. . . . Quite entertaining. * The Complete Review *[Ḥmēdān's] gift for the memorable turn of phrase has ensured that his poetry has never been forgotten… A handsomely produced volume of 'melodic verses that swell and roll / like roaring waves on a pitch-black sea.' * IASA Bulletin *
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Banipal Books The Tent Generations: Palestinian Poems
Book SynopsisFrom the Introduction by Mohammed Sawaie:The Palestinian poets included in The Tent Generations, Palestinian Poems represent different age groups and backgrounds, yet they all express a strong sense of “Palestinian-ness”. They include Israeli citizens, the offspring of those who remained in Palestine after 1948. They also include poets who lived or continue to live in the West Bank and Gaza, areas that are still occupied, or controlled by Israelis as of this writing. Finally, they include poets born in Palestine, but whose families were expelled, or migrated to neighboring Arab countries as a result of the Arab-Israeli wars of the Nakba in 1948, and then of 1967 and 1973.The educational backgrounds of the poets represented here vary. Salem Jubran, Samih al-Qasim, Tawfiq Zayyad, and Marwan Makhoul, for example, were products of the Israeli educational system. Others attended institutions of learning in various Arab countries. Fadwa Tuqan received little formal education in her city of Nablus; she, however, acquired instruction in language, support in writing poetry, and encouragement to publish her poems from her brother, the well-known poet Ibrahim Tuqan, mentioned previously. All these poems are written in fusha Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic, the codified literary, written language shared by educated speakers of Arabic in their various respective regions. Palestinian folkloric poetry, referred to as al-Shi’r al-Sha’bi or Shi’r al-‘Ammiyya, is not included in this work. Folk poetry, richly expressed orally in the Palestinian dialect, ‘Ammiyya, embraces a variety of themes (national pride, panegyric, love, generosity toward guests/strangers, and so on), including the political themes expressed in the poems in this work. There is a rising interest in collecting and preserving this folkloric poetry, and several anthologies of oral poetry as well as studies have recently appeared.The 1948 Nakba, the wars of 1967 and 1973, and their subsequent tragic impact find expression in the work of Palestinian poets. Some of the authors in this collection had firsthand experience of the loss of home, and the up-rootedness from and destruction of their villages and cities. Others acquired knowledge of such experiences, the tragedy that befell Palestinians, through stories told by grandparents or parents, stories of hardship and deprivation transmitted from one generation to another. Thus, poets express in vocabulary specific to the Palestinian experience of the dispossession of homeland, the forced expulsion, the pain of living in the miserable conditions of refugee camps in the diaspora.
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Darf Publishers Ltd Arabian Poetry for English Readers
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Outlook Verlag Über Poesie und Poetik der Araber
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Bloodaxe Books Ltd A Monkey at the Window: Selected Poems
Book SynopsisAl-Saddiq Al-Raddi is one of the leading African poets writing in Arabic today. Famous in his native Sudan, the vivid imagery of his searing, lyric poems create the world afresh in their yearning for transcendence. In 2005 Saddiq’s poems were first translated into English by the Poetry Translation Centre for their first World Poets’ Tour. Since then he has received a rapturous reception from UK audiences. In 2010 a party was organised for him at London's Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology which holds a significant collection of ancient Sudanese artefacts. As a result of the success of this event (and earlier visits to the Petrie in 2005 and 2006), he was able to work in the Petrie Museum as their poet in residence during the summer of 2012. This led to a new book of poems, He Tells Tales of Meroe: Poems for the Petrie Museum (Poetry Translation Centre/Petrie Museum, 2015), which was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award. Born in Omdurman Khartoum in 1969, Saddiq has published four volumes of poetry, including his Collected Poems in 2010. From 2006 he was the cultural editor of Al-Sudani newspaper until he was forced into exile in 2012. He was granted asylum in the UK and now lives in London. Arabic-English bilingual edition
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Saqi Books An Introduction to Arab Poetics
Book SynopsisPoetry is the quintessence of Arab culture. In this book one of the foremost Arab poets reinterprets a rich and ancient heritage. He examines the oral tradition of the pre-Islamic poetry of Arabia and the relationship between Arabic poetry and the Qur''an, and between poetry and thought. He also assesses the challenges of modernism and the impact of western culture on the Arab poetic tradition. Stimulating in their originality, eloquent in their treatment of a wide range of poetry and criticism, these reflections open up fresh perspectives on one of the world''s greatest - and least explored - literatures.Trade Review'As important a cultural manifesto as any written today.' Edward Said, Independent on Sunday 'The Arab world's greatest living poet has cultivated a garden of language.' New York Times 'Adonis is a writer like Neruda or Marquez.' Geoff Dyer, The Independent ' ... Introduces the reader to a new way of interpreting all poetry, and to many marvellous words that do not have an English equivalent.' Arts Letter
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Ibn Arabi Life Poems Volume 17 Introduction to Sufi Poets Series
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Pallas Athena Distribution Arabic Love Poetry from the Desert: Majnun Leyla, Arabic Text, Commentary and Translations
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