Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 169 Seiten, PB, Format (B × H): 172 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 355 g
Reihe: Arabische Studien
A Study of Du r-Rumma's Poetry
Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 169 Seiten, PB, Format (B × H): 172 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 355 g
Reihe: Arabische Studien
ISBN: 978-3-447-06112-4
Verlag: Harrassowitz Verlag
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.
