Arabian Romantic Poems on Bedouin Life and Love |
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| Author:
| Sbayyil, ʿAbdallāh ibn |
| Edited and Translated by:
| Kurpershoek, Marcel |
| Series title: | Library of Arabic Literature Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4798-3766-3 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2018 |
| Publisher: | New York University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $75.99 |
Book Description:
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Love poems from late nineteenth-century Arabia Arabian Romantic captures what it was like to live in central Arabia before the imposition of austere norms by the Wahhabi authorities in the early twentieth century: tales of robbery and hot pursuit; perilous desert crossings; scenes of exhaustion and chaos when water is raised from deep wells ......
Love poems from late nineteenth-century Arabia Arabian Romantic captures what it was like to live in central Arabia before the imposition of austere norms by the Wahhabi authorities in the early twentieth century: tales of robbery and hot pursuit; perilous desert crossings; scenes of exhaustion and chaos when water is raised from deep wells ......