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Love, Death, Fame: Poetry and Lore from the Emirati Oral Tradition、mySite、topwebapps
Love, Death, Fame: Poetry and Lore from the Emirati Oral Tradition、mySite、topwebapps
Love, Death, Fame: Poetry and Lore from the Emirati Oral Tradition、mySite、topwebapps
Love, Death, Fame: Poetry and Lore from the Emirati Oral Tradition、mySite、topwebapps
Love, Death, Fame: Poetry and Lore from the Emirati Oral Tradition、mySite、topwebapps
Love, Death, Fame: Poetry and Lore from the Emirati Oral Tradition、mySite、topwebapps
Love, Death, Fame: Poetry and Lore from the Emirati Oral Tradition、mySite、topwebapps
Love, Death, Fame: Poetry and Lore from the Emirati Oral Tradition、mySite、topwebapps
Love, Death, Fame: Poetry and Lore from the Emirati Oral Tradition、mySite、topwebapps
Love, Death, Fame: Poetry and Lore from the Emirati Oral Tradition、mySite、topwebapps
Love, Death, Fame: Poetry and Lore from the Emirati Oral Tradition、mySite、topwebapps
Love, Death, Fame: Poetry and Lore from the Emirati Oral Tradition、mySite、topwebapps
Love, Death, Fame: Poetry and Lore from the Emirati Oral Tradition、mySite、topwebapps
Love, Death, Fame: Poetry and Lore from the Emirati Oral Tradition、mySite、topwebapps
Love, Death, Fame: Poetry and Lore from the Emirati Oral Tradition、mySite、topwebapps
Love, Death, Fame: Poetry and Lore from the Emirati Oral Tradition、mySite、topwebapps
Love, Death, Fame: Poetry and Lore from the Emirati Oral Tradition、mySite、topwebapps
Love, Death, Fame: Poetry and Lore from the Emirati Oral Tradition、mySite、topwebapps
Love, Death, Fame: Poetry and Lore from the Emirati Oral Tradition、mySite、topwebapps
  • Love, Death, Fame: Poetry and Lore from the Emirati Oral Tradition、mySite、topwebapps
  • Love, Death, Fame: Poetry and Lore from the Emirati Oral Tradition、mySite、topwebapps
  • Love, Death, Fame: Poetry and Lore from the Emirati Oral Tradition、mySite、topwebapps
  • Love, Death, Fame: Poetry and Lore from the Emirati Oral Tradition、mySite、topwebapps
  • Love, Death, Fame: Poetry and Lore from the Emirati Oral Tradition、mySite、topwebapps
Love, Death, Fame: Poetry and Lore from the Emirati Oral Tradition、mySite、topwebapps
Love, Death, Fame: Poetry and Lore from the Emirati Oral Tradition、mySite、topwebapps
Love, Death, Fame: Poetry and Lore from the Emirati Oral Tradition、mySite、topwebapps
Love, Death, Fame: Poetry and Lore from the Emirati Oral Tradition、mySite、topwebapps
Love, Death, Fame: Poetry and Lore from the Emirati Oral Tradition、mySite、topwebapps

Love, Death, Fame: Poetry and Lore from the Emirati Oral Tradition

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          al-Mayidi ibn Zahir

          Marcel Kurpershoek (translation)
          Hardback, 400 pages
          Bilingual Arabic-English edition
          9781479806577

           

          Poems and tales of a literary forefather of the United Arab Emirates

           

          Love, Death, Fame features the poetry of al-Māyidī ibn Ẓāhir, who has been embraced as the earliest poet in what would later become the United Arab Emirates. Although little is known about his life, he is the subject of a sizeable body of folk legend and is thought to have lived in the seventeenth century, in the area now called the Emirates. The tales included in Love, Death, Fame portray him as a witty, resourceful, scruffy poet, at times combative and at times kindhearted.

           

          His poetry primarily features verses of wisdom and romance, with scenes of clouds and rain, desert migrations, seafaring, and pearl diving. Like Arabian Romantic and Arabian Satire, this collection is a prime example of Nabaṭī poetry, combining vernacular language of the Arabian Peninsula with archaic vocabulary and images dating to Arabic poetry’s very origins. Distinguished by Ibn Ẓāhir’s unique voice, Love, Death, Fame offers a glimpse of what life was like four centuries ago in the region that is now the UAE.