Author: Diana Richmond
Publisher: Quartet Books (UK)
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Author: Eunice Tietjens
Publisher:
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Category : Arabian Peninsula
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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The early Arabian "Romance of Antar" is the greatest, and even today the most popular of the hero stories of the ancient days of Arabia, the days before the coming of Mohammed. The story of Antar is better authenticated than that of the heroes of the ""Iliad", since the great poet and warrior Antarah ibn Shaddad is a historical figure, and many of his poems have survived. These hero-legends have clustered about his name and take the form of heroic exploits and tales of pure invention

Author: Welbore St. Clair Baddeley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Author: Denys Johnson-Davies
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 66

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Author: Diana Richmond
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780704334717
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Author: Malcolm Cameron Lyons
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521474498
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 510

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The hero cycles of Arabic belong to the literary tradition of The Arabian Nights and can be seen as the popular epics of their civilisation. The second volume analyses their contents and literary formulae.

Author: Alphonse de Lamartine
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 350

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Author: British Museum. Department of Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts
Publisher:
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Category : Arabic language
Languages : en
Pages : 510

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Author: M. C. Lyons
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521017404
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 676

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The hero cycles of Arabic belong to the literary tradition of The Arabian Nights and can be seen as the popular epics of their civilisation. The Arabian epic covers ten of the main representatives of this genre. Each of these has been developed through the processes of accretive oral story-telling by means of an accumulation of narrative and folklore motifs, many of which belong to what can be seen as a universal tradition. The work is published in three volumes. The first volume introduces the background and the dimensions in which the cycles are set, while the second volume analyses their contents and the literary formulae used in their construction, as well as listing analogues found in other literatures. The epitomes surveyed in the final volume provide non-Arabists with a more immediate insight into the contents of the cycles, drawing attention to their narrative colouring and texture.

Author: Remke Kruk
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857736493
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 369

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Colloquial Arabic storytelling is most commonly associated with The Thousandvand One Nights. But few people are aware of a much larger corpus of narrative texts known as popular epic. These heroic romantic tales, originating in the Middle Ages, form vast cycles of adventure stories whose most remarkable feature is their portrayal of powerful and memorable women. Wildly appreciated by medieval audiences, and spread by professional storytellers throughout the cities of the Muslim world, these fictions were printed and reprinted over the centuries and comprise a vital part of Arab culture. Yet virtually none are available in translation, and so remain almost unknown to a non-Arab public. Remke Kruk at last makes these neglected romances available to a Western audience. She recounts the story of Princess Dhat al-Himma, brave and undefeated leader of the Muslim army in its wars against the Byzantines; of Ghamra, brought up as a boy to become a fearless leader of men; and of cool-headed Qannasa, raiding from her mountain fortress to capture and seduce her enemies before putting them pitilessly to the sword. The Warrior Women of Islam puts a bold new complexion on gender roles and the wider perception of women in the Middle East.