War Songs / / ʿAntarah ibn Shaddād.
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 i...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Library of Arabic Literature ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Letter from the General Editor
- About this Paperback
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- A Note on the Text
- Maps
- Map 1: The Tribes of Pre-Islamic Arabia [c. ad 600]
- Map 2: The Topography of the Poetry of ʿAntarah
- Notes to the Introduction
- Al-Aṣmaʿī’s Redaction
- Two Qasidas from Ibn Maymūn’s Anthology
- Poems from al-Baṭalyawsī’s Recension
- Poems from The Epic of ʿAntar
- Appendix 1
- Appendix 2
- Appendix 3
- Notes
- Glossary
- Concordance of Principal Editions
- Bibliography
- Further Reading
- Index
- About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute
- About the Translators
- The Library of Arabic Literature