Warfare and poetry in the Middle East
Hugh Kennedy (Creator)
The Middle East has a poetic record stretching back five millennia. In this unique book, leading scholars draw upon this legacy to explore the ways in which poets, from the third millennium BC to the present day, have responded to the effects of war.
1 vol. (xviii-286 p.) ; 25 cm
9781780763620, 178076362X
1082450227
List of ContributorsPrefaceIntroduction by Hugh Kennedy1 'O City Set Up Thy Lament': Poetic Responses to the Trauma of War (Stefan Sperl)2 The Poem of Erra and Ishum: A Babylonian Poet's View of War (A. R. George)3 Poetry and War among the Hittites (Mark Weeden)4 Warfare in Ancient Egyptian Poetry (Robert Anderson)5 Poetry and the Early Islamic Historical Tradition: Poetry and the Narratives of the Battle of Siffin (Peter Webb)6 Pity and Defiance in the Poetry of the Siege of Baghdad (197/813) (Hugh Kennedy)7 Silenced Cultural Encounters in Poetry of War (Wen-chin Ouyang)8 Courage and Eloquence: 'Antar, the Warrior-Poet of the siyar (Peter Phillips)9 'If only al-Barraq could see...': Violence and Voyeurism in an Early Modern Reformulation of the Pre-Islamic Call to Arms (Marle Hammond)10 'I am a civil war': The Poetry of Haim Gouri (Tamar S. Drukker)11 Humanism, Nationalism and Violence in Mahmoud Darwish's Poetry (Atef Alshaer)Index