Marcel Kurpershoek

Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia, Volume 1 Poetry of Ad-Dindan

A Bedouin Bard in Southern Najd. an Edition with Translation and Introduction. Sprache: Englisch.

kartoniert , 392 Seiten

ISBN 900452097X

EAN 9789004520974

Veröffentlicht Oktober 2022

Verlag/Hersteller Brill

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Beschreibung

This work presents the complete collection of oral poetry of a bedouin poet in Central Arabia--transcribed and translated on the basis of taped recordings--, an extensive glossary, and chapters on i.a. the Najdi tradition in poetry, linguistic features, and prosody.

Portrait

P. Marcel Kurpershoek studied Arabic language and literature at the University of Leiden and has served in several Arab countries as a member of the Netherlands Foreign Service. He is the author of The Short Stories of Yūsūf Idrīs (Brill, 1981) and Deep Inside Arabia (1992, in Dutch), a travelogue and account of his fieldwork among the Bedouins of Saudi Arabia.