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Book Synopsis Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia, Volume 2 Story of a Desert Knight by : Marcel Kurpershoek
Download or read book Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia, Volume 2 Story of a Desert Knight written by Marcel Kurpershoek and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-06-27 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Oral poetry and narratives from Central Arabia. 3. Bedouin poets of the Dawāsir tribe by : P. M. Kurpershoek
Download or read book Oral poetry and narratives from Central Arabia. 3. Bedouin poets of the Dawāsir tribe written by P. M. Kurpershoek and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia: The story of a desert knight by :
Download or read book Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia: The story of a desert knight written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Story of a Desert Knight by : P. M. Kurpershoek
Download or read book The Story of a Desert Knight written by P. M. Kurpershoek and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1995 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents in translation and transcription the oral text of narratives about and poems by Slēwīḥ, one of Arabia's most famous nineteenth-century robber barons, recorded by Xālid, a sheikh of the 'Utaybah tribe of Saudi Arabia and the great-grandson of Slēwīḥ.
Book Synopsis Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia, Volume 4 Saudi Tribal History by : Kurpershoek
Download or read book Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia, Volume 4 Saudi Tribal History written by Kurpershoek and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-03-07 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
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Download or read book Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia, Volume 3 Bedouin Poets of the Dawāsir Tribe by : Marcel Kurpershoek
Download or read book Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia, Volume 3 Bedouin Poets of the Dawāsir Tribe written by Marcel Kurpershoek and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-06-27 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Words Like Daggers: The Political Poetry of the Negev Bedouin by : Kobi Peled
Download or read book Words Like Daggers: The Political Poetry of the Negev Bedouin written by Kobi Peled and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-06-08 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explores the political poetry recited by the Negev Bedouin from the late Ottoman period to the late twentieth century. By closely reading fifty poems Kobi Peled sheds light on the poets’ sentiments, states of mind and worldviews.
Book Synopsis Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia, Volume 2 Ethnographic Texts by : Clive Holes
Download or read book Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia, Volume 2 Ethnographic Texts written by Clive Holes and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-06-09 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Homeric Simile in Comparative Perspectives by : Jonathan L. Ready
Download or read book The Homeric Simile in Comparative Perspectives written by Jonathan L. Ready and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Nomadic Societies in the Middle East and North Africa by : Dawn Chatty
Download or read book Nomadic Societies in the Middle East and North Africa written by Dawn Chatty and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-11-12 with total page 1104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scholarly volume devoted to an understanding of contemporary nomadic and pastoral societies in the Middle East and North Africa. This volume recognizes the variable mobile quality of the ways of life of these societies which persist in accommodating the ‘nation-state’ of the 20th and 21st century but remain firmly transnational and highly adaptive. Composed of four sections around the theme of contestation it includes examinations of contested authority and power, space and social transformation, development and economic transformation, and cultures and engendered spaces.
Book Synopsis Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia, Volume 1 Glossary by : Clive Holes
Download or read book Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia, Volume 1 Glossary written by Clive Holes and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-06-09 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia, Volume I, Glossary is a comprehensive vocabulary of the 'uneducated' Bahraini Arabic dialects, drawn from a data-base of hundreds of hours of natural conversation gathered in the mid-1970s.
Book Synopsis Orality, Literacy and Performance in the Ancient World by : Elizabeth Minchin
Download or read book Orality, Literacy and Performance in the Ancient World written by Elizabeth Minchin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-12-09 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Space and Time in aṣ-Ṣāniʿ Arabic by : Letizia Cerqueglini
Download or read book Space and Time in aṣ-Ṣāniʿ Arabic written by Letizia Cerqueglini and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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).
Book Synopsis Historiography in Saudi Arabia by : Jörg Matthias Determann
Download or read book Historiography in Saudi Arabia written by Jörg Matthias Determann and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-25 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saudi Arabia is generally and justifiably viewed as a country with the fewest democratic institutions and the weakest traditions of pluralism in the world. It is therefore surprising to learn that at least in one corner of the Saudi world, there is a plurality voices. Jörg Matthias Determann brings this element to light by analysing an important field of cultural activity in Saudi Arabia: historical writing. By exploring the emergence of a plurality of historical narratives in the absence of formal political pluralism, Determann seeks to paint a more nuanced picture of Saudi Arabia than has previously been drawn. Since the 1920s local, tribal, Shi'i and dynastic histories have contributed to a growing plurality of narratives, diverging from and contesting the histories which focus on the royal family. Instead, they have emphasized the communities' historical independence from the House of Saud or asserting the communities' importance in Saudi national history. In addition to this, during the 1970s, distinct social and economic histories began to be developed, new narratives which have described important historical events evolving from wider social and economic factors rather than resulting from the actions of individual rulers or communities. Paradoxically, this happened because of the expansion of the Saudi state, including state-provision of mass education. A variety of previously illiterate and relatively poor sections of Saudi society, including former Bedouin, were thus empowered to produce histories which, while conformist for the most part, also provided a vehicle for dissenting voices. Furthermore, Determann argues that this proliferation of alternative histories is also due to globalizing processes, such as the spread of the internet. It is through this phenomenon that narrative plurality has been facilitated, by putting Saudi historians in contact with different ideologies, methodologies and source material from abroad. In challenging the widely-held perception of Saudi Arabia as an irredeemably closed and monolithic society, Historiography in Saudi Arabia provides a deeper understanding of modern Arab historiography, the Saudi state, and education and scholarship in the Middle East.
Book Synopsis Arabic Dialectology by : Enam al- Wer
Download or read book Arabic Dialectology written by Enam al- Wer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Of Sand or Soil written by Nadav Samin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do tribal genealogies matter in modern-day Saudi Arabia? What compels the strivers and climbers of the new Saudi Arabia to want to prove their authentic descent from one or another prestigious Arabian tribe? Of Sand or Soil looks at how genealogy and tribal belonging have informed the lives of past and present inhabitants of Saudi Arabia and how the Saudi government's tacit glorification of tribal origins has shaped the powerful development of the kingdom’s genealogical culture. Nadav Samin presents the first extended biographical exploration of the major twentieth-century Saudi scholar Ḥamad al-Jāsir, whose genealogical studies frame the story about belonging and identity in the modern kingdom. Samin examines the interplay between al-Jāsir’s genealogical project and his many hundreds of petitioners, mostly Saudis of nontribal or lower status origin who sought validation of their tribal roots in his genealogical texts. Investigating the Saudi relationship to this opaque, orally inscribed historical tradition, Samin considers the consequences of modern Saudi genealogical politics and how the most intimate anxieties of nontribal Saudis today are amplified by the governing strategies and kinship ideology of the Saudi state. Challenging the impression that Saudi culture is determined by puritanical religiosity or rentier economic principles, Of Sand or Soil shows how the exploration and establishment of tribal genealogies have become influential phenomena in contemporary Saudi society. Beyond Saudi Arabia, this book casts important new light on the interplay between kinship ideas, oral narrative, and state formation in rapidly changing societies.
