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In Deadly Embrace : Arabic Hunting Poems / Ibn al-Muʿtazz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ibn al-Muʿtazz, Author.
- Series:
- Library of Arabic Literature Series
- Library of Arabic Literature
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : New York University Press, [2025]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- A collection of poems about nature and powerTo Ibn al-Muʿtazz and his Abbasid contemporaries, the hunt was more than a diversion—it was the theater for their poetic and political endeavors, captured here in fifty-nine Arabic hunting poems, or ṭardiyyāt. The poems of In Deadly Embrace describe hunting expeditions with animals trained to hunt, including saluki hounds and birds of prey. Many were composed after these outings, when the hunting party gathered to enjoy the game they caught.Poetry was central to Abbasid society and served as a method of maintaining networks of patronage and friendship; the poems in this collection reflect these power dynamics and allowed Ibn al-Muʿtazz—prince of the realm and in line for the caliphate—to explore his own relationship to social and political power and to demonstrate his fitness to rule.Ibn al-Muʿtazz was an influential poet and literary theorist of the Modernist school of poetry. In Deadly Embrace merges the Modernists’ new techniques and styles with age-old themes: military prowess and wisdom, fitness to rule and comradeship, the camaraderie of the hunt and the cult of heroic masculinity. Groundbreaking and evocative, the poems paint vivid pictures of hunting scenes while posing deep questions about our attentiveness to the natural world and the relationship of the human to the nonhuman.An English-only edition.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Letter from the General Editor
- About this Paperback
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Map: Heartlands of the Abbasid Caliphate
- Map: Early Baghdad
- Note on the Translation
- Notes to the Introduction
- In Deadly Embrace
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Further Reading
- Index
- About the NYU Abu Dhabi Research Institute
- About the Translator
- The Library of Arabic Literature
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Mar 2025)
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4798-3602-8
- OCLC:
- 1504153414
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