| Book Title | Desert Tracings Six Classic Arabian Odes |
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Desert Tracings Six Classic Arabian Odes by AIqama, Shånfara, Labid, Antara, A1-ACsha, and Dhu al-Rumma Translated and Introduced by Michael A. Sells
DESERT TRACINGS SIX CLASSIC ARABIAN ODES
Traces of an abandoned campsite mark the beginning of the pre-Islamic Arabian ode. They announce the loss of the beloved, the spring rains, and the flowering meadows of an idealized past. Yet they also recall what is lost—both inciting its remembrance and calling it back.
To hear this poetry now is to experience a similar transformation: across expanses of time and place it is a voice at once immediate and profound.
The Bedouin tribes f pre-Islamic Arabia are said to have held poetry competitions during the annual fair at Hijåz, near Mecca. The winning poems—seven in all, according to most accounts—were embroidered in gold on rare Egyptian cloth and suspended from the ancient shrine in Mecca known as the Kabah. The story has been dismissed by some as an attempt to explain the puzzling name of Arabia’s most famous
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