| Diwan 'Antarah Ibn Shaddad: A Literary-Historical Study Contributor(s): Montgomery, James E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 147986188X ISBN-13: 9781479861880 Publisher: New York University Press OUR PRICE: $74.25 Product Type: Hardcover Published: October 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Middle Eastern - History | Middle East - General - Literary Criticism | African |
| Dewey: 892.711 |
| LCCN: 2018013465 |
| Series: Library of Arabic Literature |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 6" W x 9" (1.45 lbs) 332 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East - Cultural Region - African |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The pre-Islamic warrior-poet 'Antarah ibn Shaddad, a composer of one of the Mu'allaqat, attracted the attention of the philologists who were active in Iraq at the nascence of the scholarly study of Arabic. These philologists collected and studied the diwan of 'Antarah as part of their recovery and codification of the Jahiliyyah: 'Antarah became one of the Six Poets, a collection of pre-Islamic poets associated with al-Asma'i, "the father of Arabic philology." Two centuries later, in al-Andalus, al-Shantamari and al-Batalyawsi composed their commentaries on the diwans of the Six Poets. This study uncovers the literary history of 'Antarah's diwan and presents five editions, with critical apparatus, of the extant recensions, based on an extensive collation of the surviving manuscripts. An Arabic edition with English scholarly apparatus. |
Contributor Bio(s): Montgomery, James E.: - James E. Montgomery, author of Al-Jahiz: In Praise of Books, is Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity Hall. His latest publications are Loss Sings, a collaboration with the celebrated Scottish artist Alison Watt, and Dīwān ʿAntarah ibn Shaddād: A Literary-Historical Study. |