A Demon Spirit
Arabic Hunting Poems
$95.30
- Hardcover
472 pages
- Release Date
18 November 2024
Summary
Verses on hunter and quarry from a giant of Arabic poetry
Arguably the greatest poet of the Arabic language, Abū Nuwās was renowned for his innovations in poetic genre and style and was a larger-than-life figure even among his contemporaries in Abbasid Baghdad. In A Demon Spirit, acclaimed translator and scholar James E. Montgomery renders this literary giant’s hunting poetry, or ṭardiyyāt, translated for the first time in vivid English.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781479834129 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1479834122 |
| Author: | Abū Nuwās, James E. Montgomery |
| Publisher: | New York University Press |
| Imprint: | New York University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 472 |
| Release Date: | 18 November 2024 |
| Weight: | 953g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
| Series: | Library of Arabic Literature |
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“Elaborate and highly metaphorical.”– “Al-Ahram Weekly”
About The Author
Abū Nuwās
Abū Nuwās was a prominent Abbasid poet of the Modernist style. He was born in what is now Ahvaz, Iran, ca. 139–40/756–58, before moving to Basra and later Baghdad, where he became the court companion of caliph al-Amīn. He died sometime between 198⁄813 and 200⁄815 in Baghdad.
James E. Montgomery is Sir Thomas Adams’s Professor of Arabic at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity Hall. His latest publications are In Deadly Embrace: Arabic Hunting Poems, Fate the Hunter: Early Arabic Hunting Poems, and Kalīlah and Dimnah: Fables of Virtue and Vice, with Michael Fishbein. In 2024 he was elected Fellow of the British Academy.
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