Bedouin Poetry from Sinai and the Negev: Mirror of a Culture

by Clinton Bailey

Book Overview

Like other nonliterate peoples, the Bedouin have a strong oral tradition and use poetry for all forms of communication and entertainment. Based on twenty years of studying the poetry of the Bedouin of Sinai and the Negev, this book presents 115 poems recorded between 1967 and 1985. Bailey arranges the poems according to their content, providing for each an introduction, a version of the poem in Arabic script and transliteration, and notes on the poem's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198265476
• ISBN13: 9780198265474
• Release Date: April 1991
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 9.3"