In Deadly Embrace
Arabic Hunting Poems
$80.78
- Hardcover
224 pages
- Release Date
4 September 2023
Summary
A collection of poems about nature and power
To Ibn al-Muʿtazz and his Abbasid contemporaries, the hunt was more than a diversion—it was the theater for their poetic and political endeavors, captured here in fifty-nine Arabic hunting poems, or ṭardiyyāt. The poems of In Deadly Embrace describe hunting expeditions with animals trained to hunt, including saluki hounds and birds of prey. Many were composed after these outings, when the hunting party gathered to enjoy …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781479853182 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1479853186 |
| Author: | James E. Montgomery, Ibn al-Muʿtazz |
| Publisher: | New York University Press |
| Imprint: | New York University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 4 September 2023 |
| Weight: | 544g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
| Series: | Library of Arabic Literature |
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Critics Review
“Simply delightful… Montgomery’s imaginative translation brings to life hunting scenes alien to most modern readers’ experiences and skillfully renders the aesthetics of the original Arabic verse.” (ArabLit) “[These poems] are an extraordinary and very beautiful insight … into continuity and tradition.” (New Lines Magazine)
James E. Montgomery
Ibn al-Muʿtazz (Author)
Ibn al-Muʿtazz (d. 296⁄908) was an accomplished and prolific poet and author of works of literary theory and literary history. He was the direct descendant of six caliphs and was himself made caliph in 296⁄908, but ruled for only one day before he was killed by the palace guards, partisans of his brother al-Muqtadir.
James E. Montgomery (Edited and Translated by)
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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