Elegy as a Medium for the Indictment of Arab Culture: Death Transformed and Politicized

A Reading-Translation of Medieval and Modern Arabic Elegies

Mansour Ajami

Gerlach Press
Language: English
1. Edition (2025-01)
Hardcover, 160 pages
HC ISBN 9783959941747
Availability: not yet published
95.00 € (excl. VAT)

The book consists of a critical introduction and six chapters on two famous great medieval poems by Ibn al-Anbari and Abu Tammam, and three unique and remarkable poems by Khalil Hawi, Nizar Qabbani, and Badr Shakir al-Sayyab.

The author applies a deconstructive critical interpretation (analysis) to the two medieval poems and a reading translation of the modern ones. The introduction contains new ideas on translation from Arabic into English and a new reading of the rhyme in medieval and modern Arabic poetry.