Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia, Volume 2 Story of a Desert Knight

Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia, Volume 2 Story of a Desert Knight
Author: Marcel Kurpershoek
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 534
Release: 2022-06-27
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 900452049X

The Story of a Desert Knight is the second volume of a trilogy entitled Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia. 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. The introduction discusses inter alia the general characteristics of Bedouin oral culture, the linguistic, prosodic and stylistic features of the text, and Xālid's use of his ancestors' oral legacy in order to enhance his position in the tribal hierarchy of prestige. In addition to the translation of the oral text this volume offers a complete transcription, based on taped records and including variants found in published Saudi sources, and a substantial glossary.

Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia, Volume 4 Saudi Tribal History

Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia, Volume 4 Saudi Tribal History
Author: Kurpershoek
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 1032
Release: 2022-03-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 900450267X

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

Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia, Volume 3 Bedouin Poets of the Dawāsir Tribe
Author: Marcel Kurpershoek
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 529
Release: 2022-06-27
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9004520503

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.

Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia, Volume 2 Ethnographic Texts

Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia, Volume 2 Ethnographic Texts
Author: Clive Holes
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2021-06-09
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9047407954

The second volume of this three-volume series provides a fascinating insight into the life, culture and society, in their own words, of Gulf Arabs of the pre-oil generation, covering such subjects as pearl-diving, agriculture, marriage, communal relations, domestic life, and childhood.

Oral poetry and narratives from Central Arabia. 3. Bedouin poets of the Dawāsir tribe

Oral poetry and narratives from Central Arabia. 3. Bedouin poets of the Dawāsir tribe
Author: P. M. Kurpershoek
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 538
Release: 1999-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9789004112766

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 Homeric Simile in Comparative Perspectives

The Homeric Simile in Comparative Perspectives
Author: Jonathan L. Ready
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2018
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0198802552

Presenting a new take on what made the Homeric epics such successful examples of verbal artistry, this volume explores the construction of the Homeric simile and the performance of Homeric poetry from the neglected comparative perspectives offered by the study of modern-day oral traditions.

Space and Time in aṣ-Ṣāniʿ Arabic

Space and Time in aṣ-Ṣāniʿ Arabic
Author: Letizia Cerqueglini
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 488
Release: 2022-08-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9004511121

This work contributes to the discussion on the relationship between space and time in language and cognition and the role of culture in this relationship from the perspective of the dialect of aṣ-Ṣāniʿ, a Bedouin Arab tribe of the Negev (Israel).

Arabic Dialectology

Arabic Dialectology
Author: Enam al- Wer
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2009
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9004172122

Much of the insight in the field of Arabic linguistics has for a long time remained unknown to linguists outside the field. Regrettably, Arabic data rarely feature in the formulation of theories and analytical tools in modern linguistics. This situation is unfavourable to both sides. The Arabist, once an outrider, has almost become a non-member of the mainstream linguistics community. Consequently, linguistics itself has been deprived of a wealth of data from one of the world's major languages. However, it is reassuring to witness advances being made to integrate into mainstream linguistics the visions and debates of specialists in Arabic. Building on this fruitful endeavour, this book presents thought-provoking, new articles, especially written for this collection by leading scholars from both sides. The authors discuss topics in historical, social and spatial dialectology focusing on Arabic data investigated within modern analytical frameworks.

Orality, Literacy and Performance in the Ancient World

Orality, Literacy and Performance in the Ancient World
Author: Elizabeth Minchin
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2011-12-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004217754

This ninth Orality and Literacy volume considers oral composition, performance, reception, and the mutual interplay between oral performance and written text. Authors under consideration are Homer, Hesiod, Plato, Isocrates, orators of the Second Sophistic, and Proclus. Cross-cultural studies are included.