{"product_id":"fate-the-hunter-early-arabic-hunting-poems-hardback-9781479825257","title":"Fate the Hunter; Early Arabic Hunting Poems (Hardback) 9781479825257","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFate the Hunter\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEarly Arabic Hunting Poems\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJames E. Montgomery (Edited and translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781479825257\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 19 May 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e240 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.544 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"\"Twenty-six muscular, animal-centered works . . . timeless poems of man and nature.\"\" \"This Arabic hunting poem is ideal for a grey day, recharging me with what Beckett calls 'the pitiless light of that which hope hides'. It's a list of animal deaths laid out like offerings before the death of a human. [About \"The Workings of Fate,\" by Sakhr Al-Ghayy, in \u003ci\u003eFate the Hunter\u003c\/i\u003e]\" - Alice Oswald (The Guardian)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA rich anthology of pre-Islamic and early Islamic poetry on the beauties and perils of the hunt\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the poems of \u003ci\u003eFate the Hunte\u003c\/i\u003er, many of them translated into English for the first time, trained cheetahs chase oryx, and goshawks glare from falconers' arms, while archers stalk their prey across the desert plains and mountain ravines of the Arabian peninsula. With this collection, James E. Montgomery, acclaimed translator of \u003ci\u003eWar Songs \u003c\/i\u003eby ʿAntarah ibn Shaddād, offers a new edition and translation of twenty-six early works of hunting poetry, or \u003ci\u003eṭardiyyāt\u003c\/i\u003e. Included here are poems by pre-Islamic poets such as Imruʾ al-Qays and al-Shanfarā, as well as poets from the Umayyad era such as al-Shamardal ibn Sharīk. The volume concludes with the earliest extant epistle about hunting, written by ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Kātib, a master of Arabic prose. \u003cbr\u003e Through the eyes of the poet, the hunter's pursuit of the quarry mirrors Fate's pursuit of both humans and nonhumans and highlights the ambiguity of the encounter. With breathtaking descriptions of falcons, gazelles, and saluki gazehounds, the poems in \u003ci\u003eFate the Hunter\u003c\/i\u003e capture the drama and tension of the hunt while offering meditations on Fate, mortality, and death.\u003cbr\u003e A bilingual Arabic-English edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"NYU Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52676633362712,"sku":"9781479825257","price":20.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/fate-the-hunter-early-arabic-hunting-poems-hardback-9781479825257","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}