The Arabian Oral Historical Narrative
Author : Saad Abdullah Sowayan
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 22,73 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Bedouins
ISBN : 9783447032247
The Arabian Epic: Volume 2, Analysis
Author : Malcolm Cameron Lyons
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 29,89 MB
Release : 1995-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521474498
Book Description
The hero cycles of Arabic belong to the literary tradition of The Arabian Nights and can be seen as the popular epics of their civilisation. The second volume analyses their contents and literary formulae.
Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia, Volume 4 Saudi Tribal History
Author : Kurpershoek
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 13,61 MB
Release : 2022-03-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 900450267X
Book Description
A Saudi Tribal History, the fourth volume of the author's series Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia, presents and analyses the oral traditions of the Dawāsir tribal confederation in the area of Wādi ad-Dawāsir, south of Riyadh. The introduction focusses on the tribe's self-image and its symbiosis of Bedouin and sedentary strains; its internal social relations and its place in the surrounding tribal world; the impact of the Wahhābi movement and the Saudi state's historical efforts to control the tribes; and the store of legends that continues to shape its collective consciousness. It is followed by the Arabic text of the poems and narratives in transcription, based on taped records, with the English translation on the facing page. This is complimented by an extensive glossary, cross-referenced to the Arabic text.
Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia, Volume 3 Bedouin Poets of the Dawāsir Tribe
Author : Marcel Kurpershoek
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 47,95 MB
Release : 2022-06-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004520503
Book Description
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 Dawāsir 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.
Oral poetry and narratives from Central Arabia. 3. Bedouin poets of the Dawāsir tribe
Author : P. M. Kurpershoek
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 37,66 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004112766
Book Description
This volume presents and analyses the work of four contemporary Saudi Bedouin poets, based on taped records, with special emphasis on this poetry's reflection of the tribal society's evolving self-image at a time of rapid social, economic, and political transformation.
The Arabian Epic: Volume 1, Introduction
Author : M. C. Lyons
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 37,52 MB
Release : 2005-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521017381
Book Description
The hero cycles of Arabic belong to the literary tradition of The Arabian Nights and can be seen as the popular epics of their civilisation. Published in three volumes, the first introduces the background to the cycles, while the second analyses their contents and literary formulae. The epitomes surveyed in the final volume provide further insight into their literary nuances.
Oral Tradition in Ancient Israel
Author : Robert D. Miller II, OFS
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 12,43 MB
Release : 2011-09-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1725246414
Book Description
Providing a comprehensive study of "oral tradition" in Israel, this volume unpacks the nature of oral tradition, the form it would have taken in ancient Israel, and the remains of it in the narrative books of the Hebrew Bible. The author presents cases of oral/written interaction that provide the best ethnographic analogies for ancient Israel and insights from these suggest a model of transmission in oral-written societies valid for ancient Israel. Miller reconstructs what ancient Israelite oral literature would have been and considers criteria for identifying orally derived material in the narrative books of the Old Testament, marking several passages as highly probable oral derivations. Using ethnographic data and ancient Near Eastern examples, he proposes performance settings for this material. The epilogue treats the contentious topic of historicity and shows that orally derived texts are not more historically reliable than other texts in the Bible.
Nabati Poetry
Author : Saad Abdullah Sowayan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 17,20 MB
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520335074
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1985.
Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia, Volume 1 Poetry of ad-Dindan
Author : Marcel Kurpershoek
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 18,72 MB
Release : 2022-06-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004520481
Book Description
This 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. The introduction describes Dindān's somewhat anomalous position in local society as a result of his stubborn attachment to nomadism, his fierce artistic temper, and his unreconstructed bedouin ethos. It also discusses the composition of oral poetry, the dīwān's themes and its place in the Najdi tradition, the impact of literacy on the poet's oral work, and the prosodic and linguistic features of the text.
The Blood-red Arab Flag
Author : Charles E. Davies
Publisher : University of Exeter Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 41,40 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9780859895095
Book Description
During the years 1797-1820 the Qasimi Arabs or Qawasim, inhabitants of the present day United Arab Emirates, acquired an enduring reputation as ruthless pirates. Some of their victims flew the British flag, and thus their actions were to provide the initial stimulus and justification for 150 years of British involvement in the Gulf. Recently, however, it has been doubted whether the Qawasim were in fact pirates. In a scholarly but accessible account founded on contemporary sources, illustrated with testimonies of eye-witnesses and participants, this book sets out to decide this controversial question. By making use of valuable and hitherto untapped archival material, Charles Davies strongly evokes a flavour of life in the Gulf in this turbulent and formative period in the Gulf's history. This book represents the first in-depth investigation into this controversial subject. It is based on original research and and helps to explain why the Gulf is as it is today.
