Arabian satire : poetry from 18th-century Najd /

• Main Author: Shuwayʻir, Ḥamīdān (συγγραφέας.)
• Other Authors: Kurpershoek, P. M. (P. Marcel) (μεταφραστής.), Tylus, Jane 1956- (συγγραφέας προλόγου.), Sowayan, Saad Abdullah (επιμελητής.), Holes, Clive (επιμελητής.), Kennedy, Philip F. (επιμελητής.)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York : University Press, 2020.
• Series: Library of Arabic Literature (University Press) 62.
• Subjects: Αραβική λογοτεχνία

A master of satire known for his ribald humor, self-deprecation, and invective verse (hijāʼ), the poet Ḥmēdān al-Shwē'ir was an acerbic critic of his society and its morals. Living in the Najd region of the Arabian Peninsula, Ḥmēdān wrote in an idiom widely referred to as "Nabaṭī," he...