Popular Narrative Ballads of Modern Egypt

by Pierre Cachia

This book is the first to survey a branch of Arabic folk literature virtually unknown in the West. Cachia, an academic Arabist who has spent many years in Egypt, first records basic facts about the development of the art of narrative balladry, its practitioners, and their styles and priorities. He then presents numerous integral texts of ballads, meticulously transcribed and translated, ranging from erotic tales, to fables, religious legends, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019826545X
• ISBN13: 9780198265450
• Release Date: March 1989
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"