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Desert Travel as a Form of Boasting

- A Study of Du R-Rumma's Poetry

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  • Bog, paperback
  • Engelsk
  • 169 sider

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Boasting about one's travels through the desert was a very common topic of self-praise in early Arabic poetry (ca. 500-750). Desert crossing would attest to a man's character, providing evidence of his valour, stamina, industriousness and ambition. The book focuses on desert travel as a self-praise theme in early Arabic poetry and especially in the work of the Umayyad poet Dur-Rumma (ca. 695-735), one of the last great exponents of the Bedouin poetic tradition. It discusses the various motifs associated with desert travel in Dur-Rumma and traces their antecedents in the work of earlier poets. By analyzing the diachronic development of the travel theme and evaluating its place within the poem as a whole, it challenges the widespread view of the Arabic ode (qasida) as a tripartite composition and contributes to a better understanding of early Arabic poetics. For despite the fact that desert travel was a central theme of early poetry, it has never been studied in detail and its purport as a theme of self-praise has not been generally recognized.

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Detaljer
  • SprogEngelsk
  • Sidetal169
  • Udgivelsesdato01-12-2009
  • ISBN139783447061124
  • Forlag Harrassowitz
  • Nummer i serien4
  • FormatPaperback
  • Udgave0
Størrelse og vægt
  • Vægt317 g
  • Dybde1,2 cm
  • coffee cup img
    10 cm
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    16,7 cm
    23,6 cm

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