The Nabati Poetry of the United Arab Emirates: Selected Poems, Annotated and Translated into English

by Clive Holes (Author), SaidSalmanAbuAthera (Editor)

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  Hardcover
  2011

  $37.15

  Nabati poetry, though composed in an artistic variant of ordinary Bedouin speech, historically descends from the pre-Islamic Classical Arabic poetry of antiquity, and its modern exponents still compose in the traditional genres of boasting, praise, satire, elegy, advice and guidance, love and lyric poetry.