{"product_id":"classical-poems-by-arab-women","title":"Classical Poems by Arab Women","description":"\u003ch3 class=\"section\"\u003eAbout the Book\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArab women poets have been writing since the earliest of times, yet for millennia, their \u003cem\u003ediwans\u003c\/em\u003e (collected poems) were kept in the shadows.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpanning more than five thousand years, from the pre-Islamic to the Andalusian periods, \u003cem\u003eClassical Poems by Arab Women\u003c\/em\u003e presents rarely seen work by over sixty women writers who boldly refused to be silenced. From the sorrowful eulogies of Khansa to the gleeful scorn of Wallada bint al-Mustakfi, this collection offers a rich excursion into the vibrant, exclusively female worlds of pleasure, passion and pain, suppressed for centuries by religious and political bigotry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith many poems shown here for the first time, this bespoke edition celebrates feminine wit and desire and pays homage to the significant contribution Arab women have made to the literary tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"section\"\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbdullah al-Udhari was born in Taiz, Yemen, in 1941, and has lived in London since 1962. He studied classical Arab literature and Sabaean epigraphy at London University, where he also received a doctorate for his pioneering study, \u003ci\u003eJahili Poetry before Imru al-Qais [4000 BCE–500 CE]\u003c\/i\u003e, which established him as an authority on early Jahili literature. In 1974 he founded and edited \u003ci\u003eTR\u003c\/i\u003e, an Anglo-Arab literary and arts magazine. He is a literary historian, poet and storyteller, editor of \u003ci\u003eClassical Poems by Arab Women\u003c\/i\u003e (Saqi Books), and author of \u003ci\u003eVoice Without Passport\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Arab Creation Myth\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVictims of a Map\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eModern Poetry of the Arab World\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Saqi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49519437545802,"sku":"9780863569340","price":17.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0754\/5474\/2858\/files\/9780863569340_FINAL.jpg?v=1730899406","url":"https:\/\/archive-books-berlin.myshopify.com\/products\/classical-poems-by-arab-women","provider":"Archive Souq","version":"1.0","type":"link"}