Arabian Satire : Poetry from 18th-Century Najd / Ḥmēdān al-Shwēʿir; Marcel Kurpershoek.

Name: Arabian Satire : Poetry from 18th-Century Najd / Ḥmēdān al-Shwēʿir; Marcel Kurpershoek.
Author: al-Shwēʿir, Ḥmēdān

Title	Arabian Satire : Poetry from 18th-Century Najd / Ḥmēdān al-Shwēʿir; Marcel Kurpershoek.
Author	al-Shwēʿir, Ḥmēdān
Publication Date:	2017
Publication Place	New York, NY - New York University Press
Type	Book
Language	ara,eng
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Pages Count	193
Library:	University of Bielefeld Library
Record ID	991025850696606442
Date	2017
Notes	This lively volume collects poems by Hmedan al-Shwe'ir, who lived in Najd in the Arabian Peninsula shortly before the hegemony of the Wahhabi movement in the early 18th century.A master of satire known for his ribald humor, self-deprecation, and invective verse (hija), Hmedan was acerbic in his criticisms of society and its morals, voiced in in a poetic idiom that is widely referred to as “Nabati,” here a mix of Najdi vernacular and archaic vocabulary and images dating back to the origins of Arabic poetry. In Arabian Satire, Hmedan 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 moral 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 intensely socially committed figure—representative of the traditional Najdi ethos—who infuses his verse with proverbs, maxims, and words of wisdom expressed plainly and conversationally. Hmedan is accordingly "ed by historians of the Gulf region and in anthologies of popular sayings. This is the first full translation of this remarkable poet.
İlgili kişiler	Kurpershoek, Marcel
ISBN	9781479811199 147981119X
Dizi başlığı	Library of Arabic literature.

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Arabian Satire : Poetry from 18th-Century Najd / Ḥmēdān al-Shwēʿir; Marcel Kurpershoek.

Author al-Shwēʿir, Ḥmēdān

Publication Date 2017

Publication Place New York, NY - New York University Press

Type Book

Language ara,eng

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Pages Count 193

Library University of Bielefeld Library

Record ID 991025850696606442

Date 2017

Notes This lively volume collects poems by Hmedan al-Shwe'ir, who lived in Najd in the Arabian Peninsula shortly before the hegemony of the Wahhabi movement in the early 18th century.A master of satire known for his ribald humor, self-deprecation, and invective verse (hija), Hmedan was acerbic in his criticisms of society and its morals, voiced in in a poetic idiom that is widely referred to as “Nabati,” here a mix of Najdi vernacular and archaic vocabulary and images dating back to the origins of Arabic poetry. In Arabian Satire, Hmedan 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 moral 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 intensely socially committed figure—representative of the traditional Najdi ethos—who infuses his verse with proverbs, maxims, and words of wisdom expressed plainly and conversationally. Hmedan is accordingly "ed by historians of the Gulf region and in anthologies of popular sayings. This is the first full translation of this remarkable poet.

İlgili kişiler Kurpershoek, Marcel

ISBN 9781479811199 147981119X

Dizi başlığı Library of Arabic literature.