Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia, Volume 2 Story of a Desert Knight: The Legend of Slewih al-'At awi and other 'Utaybah Heroes. An Edition with Translation and Introduction

Marcel Kurpershoek

Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia, Volume 2 Story of a Desert Knight: The Legend of Slewih  al-'At awi and other 'Utaybah Heroes. An Edition with Translation and Introduction
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Brill
Country
Published
1 March 1995
Pages
516
ISBN
9789004101029

Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia, Volume 2 Story of a Desert Knight: The Legend of Slewih al-‘At awi and other 'Utaybah Heroes. An Edition with Translation and Introduction

Marcel Kurpershoek

This work, the second volume of a trilogy, is devoted to the narratives told about, and the poems composed by, Slewih al-“Atawi and his brother Bxit, both famous desert knights in the middle and second half of the 19th century. The principal source of this book is Slewih’s great-grandson Xalid, 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 Xalid’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, along with a substantial glossary.

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