Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia 2: The Story of a Desert Knight (book review)

KURPERSHOEK, P. MARCEL, editor and translator. The Legend of Slewih al-Atawi and Other Utaybah Heroes. Studies in Arabic Literature, SAL, 017/2. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995. xiv + 512 pages. Map, plates, appendices of examples of scansion, variations of readings, and place names, glossary, bibliography. Cloth Fl. 190.00 or US$108.75; ISBN 90-04-10102-0; ISSN 0169-9903.

This multifaceted work by the scholar-diplomat P.M. Kurpershoek (the second volume of a trilogy) is a collection of sixty-one field texts recorded during the 1980s, and a study of oral literature (verbal art). The ...

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