Fate the Hunter
Early Arabic Hunting Poems
$80.78
- Hardcover
240 pages
- Release Date
6 March 2023
Summary
A rich anthology of pre-Islamic and early Islamic poetry on the beauties and perils of the hunt
In the poems of Fate the Hunter, many of them translated into English for the first time, trained cheetahs chase oryx, and goshawks glare from falconers’ arms, while archers stalk their prey across the desert plains and mountain ravines of the Arabian peninsula. With this collection, James E. Montgomery, acclaimed translator of War Songs by ʿAntarah ibn Sh…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781479825257 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1479825255 |
| Author: | James E. Montgomery |
| Publisher: | New York University Press |
| Imprint: | New York University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 6 March 2023 |
| Weight: | 544g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
| Series: | Library of Arabic Literature |
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Critics Review
”“Twenty-six muscular, animal-centered works … timeless poems of man and nature.”” “This Arabic hunting poem is ideal for a grey day, recharging me with what Beckett calls ‘the pitiless light of that which hope hides’. It’s a list of animal deaths laid out like offerings before the death of a human. [About “The Workings of Fate,” by Sakhr Al-Ghayy, in Fate the Hunter]” - Alice Oswald (The Guardian)
James E. Montgomery
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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