Arabia Of The Bedouins
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Arabia Of The Bedouins
| Author: | Marcel Kurpershoek |
| Category: | History Of The Saudi State [Edit] |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | دار الساقي للطباعة والنشر |
| ISBN: | 863568092 |
| Release Date: | 01 Jul 2001 |
| Pages: | 310 |
| Rank: | 277,923 No 1 most popular |
| Short link: | Copy |
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Book Description
In 1986 Marcel Kurpershoek, a Dutch diplomat, was posted to Saudi Arabia. There, he stated exploring the country's vast sdeserts and hunting in the Rub' al-Khali, the Empty Quarter.
Three years later, having familiarised himself with the bedouin dialect and poetry, he set out to do five months of fieldwork among the tribes of central Arabia, traveling the Saudi desert in search of the living chronicle of the bedouins. He established contacts with tribesmen and Bedouins in this remote corner of the desert and discovered the powerful tribes of Utaybah, Qahtan, Subay and Dawasir, whose poets celebrated bravery and feats of arms. His host, Khalid, a Utaybah Sheikh, told him all he knew of his anestors' chivalrous feats and daring raids when the tribes were a law unto themselves.
He also becam the first Westerner to visit ad-Kakhul and Hawmal, two mountains mentioned in Imrul Qais' famous pre-Islamic ode.
But his greatest discovery was an old, poor, illiterate and unruly Bedouin, the poet ad-Kindan, whose magnificent poetry offered contemporary proof of the authenticity of the great pre-Islamic tradiction in Arabian oral poetry.
Kurpershoek's expedition and encounters are recorded in detail in this part travelogue, part book of poems and study of traditional Saudi society.
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