In Deadly Embrace : : Arabic Hunting Poems / / Ibn al-Muʿtazz; ed. by James E. Montgomery.

• VerfasserIn: Ibn al-Muʿtazz,
• HerausgeberIn: Montgomery, James E.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2023]; 2023
• שנת הוצאה לאור: 2023
• שפה: English
• סדרה: Library of Arabic Literature ; 94
• תיאור פיזי: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Letter from the General Editor --; Table of Contents Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Map: Heartlands of the Abbasid Caliphate --; Map: Early Baghdad --; Note on the Text --; Notes to the Introduction --; In Deadly Embrace --; Like White Teeth on Red Lips --; What a Waste! --; Like a Slice of Air --; The Heavy Beat of Thunder --; Like a River in Spate --; In Youth's Full Flush --; Like a Desert Snake --; She Rides the Wind --; The Veil of the Unseen --; God's Scourge --; A Squint-Eyed Grimace --; A Gown of Jade and Gold --; Like a Patterned Snake --; A Glint of Sword --; Meteor-Bright --; A Babel of Language --; A Love of Death --; Hungry, Dawn to Dusk --; In Battle Gear --; To Seize the Souls --; A Death Knell --; Like a Bright Page --; Tongues Like Daggers --; In Rusty Hauberks --; A Watchful Demon --; Like an Arrow --; An Inflamed Eye --; Amorous Approaches --; Astride the Glove --; Scented with Ambergris --; My Hair a Blaze of White --; Black at Its Fringes --; On the Crest of a Hill --; Vainglorious --; Kennel-Bred --; Flash Floods --; Trained in the Arena --; In a Saffron Robe --; At Night's End --; Impulsive on the Leash --; Brutal and Hard --; The Face of Fear --; Fine Rhetoric --; A Tender Lover --; The Wind's Soft Hands --; In Night's Tatters --; Fluent in Human Speech --; Doomed Fowl --; Deft Hunters --; A Puff of Wind --; Her Thirsty Beak --; Like Torrents --; Held Low in an Ambush --; Expert at Physiognomy --; Sharp Knives --; The Drowsy Pleiades Set --; Blood's Taste --; Training or Instinct? --; His Pickax Beak --; Notes --; Glossary --; Bibliography --; Further Reading --; Index --; About the NYUAD Research Institute --; About the Typefaces --; Titles Published by the Library of Arabic Literature --; About the Editor-Translator
• סיכום: 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.
• פורמט: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781479802463
• DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479802463.001.0001
• גישה: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Ibn al-Muʿtazz; ed. by James E. Montgomery.

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 huntin...