Produktbild
'Antarah ibn Shaddad

War Songs

Buch

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, 'Antarah ibn Shaddad struggled to win the recognition of his father and tribe. He defied social norms and, despite his outcast status, loyally defended his people. 'Antarah captured his tumultuous life in uncompromising poetry that combines flashes of tenderness with blood-curdling violence. His war songs are testaments to his life-long battle to win the recognit… Mehr

CHF 19.90

Preise inkl. MwSt. und Versandkosten (Portofrei ab CHF 40.00)

Versandfertig innerhalb 1-3 Werktagen

Produktdetails


Weitere Autoren: Montgomery, James E. (Übers.)
  • ISBN: 978-1-4798-5879-8
  • EAN: 9781479858798
  • Produktnummer: 27172358
  • Verlag: New York University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
  • Seitenangabe: 320 S.
  • Masse: H13.9 cm x B20.8 cm x D2.4 cm 412 g
  • Gewicht: 412
  • Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational

Über den Autor


¿Antarah ibn Shaddad (Author) ¿Antarah ibn Shaddad was one of the most famous warrior-poets of pre-Islamic Arabia. A semi-legendary hero from the sixth century AD, ¿Antarah was born into slavery as the son of an Arab father and an African mother. Many of his poems are about his love for ¿Ablah, daughter of the tribe's shaykh--a love thwarted by his low social status.Peter Cole (Foreword by) Peter Cole has published several books of poems and many volumes of translations from Hebrew and Arabic, both medieval and modern. He has received numerous honors for his work, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, and in 2007 he was named a MacArthur Fellow.James E. Montgomery (Translator) James E. Montgomery, author of Al-Jäi¿: In Praise of Books, is Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity Hall. His latest publications are Loss Sings, a collaboration with the celebrated Scottish artist Alison Watt, and Diwan ¿Antarah ibn Shaddad: A Literary-Historical Study.

1 weiteres Werk von 'Antarah ibn Shaddad:


Bewertungen


0 von 0 Bewertungen

Geben Sie eine Bewertung ab!

Teilen Sie Ihre Erfahrungen mit dem Produkt mit anderen Kunden.