Baghdad
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Baghdad

The City in Verse

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Baghdad

The City in Verse

About this book

Baghdad: The City in Verse captures the essence of life lived in one of the world's great enduring metropolises. In this unusual anthology, Reuven Snir offers original translations of more than 170 Arabic poems—most of them appearing for the first time in English—which represent a cross-section of genres and styles from the time of Baghdad's founding in the eighth century to the present day. The diversity of the fabled city is reflected in the Bedouin, Muslim, Christian, Kurdish, and Jewish poets featured here, including writers of great renown and others whose work has survived but whose names are lost to history.

Through the prism of these poems, readers glimpse many different Baghdads: the city built on ancient Sumerian ruins, the epicenter of Arab culture and Islam's Golden Age under the enlightened rule of Harun al-Rashid, the bombed-out capital of Saddam Hussein's fallen regime, the American occupation, and life in a new but unstable Iraq. With poets as our guides, we visit bazaars, gardens, wine parties, love scenes (worldly and mystical), brothels, prisons, and palaces. Startling contrasts emerge as the day-to-day cacophony of urban life is juxtaposed with eternal cycles of the Tigris, and hellish winds, mosquitoes, rain, floods, snow, and earthquakes are accompanied by somber reflections on invasions and other catastrophes.

Documenting the city's 1,250-year history, Baghdad: The City in Verse shows why poetry has been aptly called the public register of the Arabs.

Information

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9780674725218
eBook ISBN
9780674727786
Topic
Littérature
Subtopic
Histoire du Moyen-Orient

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Foreword by Roger Allen
  8. Preface
  9. Translator’s Note
  10. Introduction
  11. Muti‘ ibn Iyas
  12. ‘Abd Allah ibn al-Mubarak
  13. Anon.
  14. Anon.
  15. Anon.
  16. Anon.
  17. Anon.
  18. Anon.
  19. Anon.
  20. Anon.
  21. al-‘Abbas ibn al-Ahnaf
  22. Harun al-Rashid
  23. Shamsa
  24. Anon.
  25. Anon.
  26. Mansur al-Namari
  27. Ashja‘ al-Sulami
  28. Abu Nuwas (al-Hasan ibn Hani al-Hakami)
  29. ‘Inan
  30. ‘Amr ibn ‘Abd al-Malik al-Warraq
  31. Tahir ibn al-Husayn al-Khuza‘i
  32. ‘Ali ibn Jabala al-Ansari (known as al-‘Akawwak)
  33. Ishaq al-Khuraymi
  34. Ishaq al-Mawsili
  35. Al-Husayn ibn al-Dahhak
  36. ‘Abd Allah ibn Tahir
  37. ‘Umara ibn ‘Aqil
  38. ‘Ali ibn al-Jahm
  39. ‘Abd Allah ibn Muhammad al-Bafi
  40. Ibn Dust
  41. Abu Muhammad al-Hasan ibn Ahmad al-Brujardi
  42. al-Walid ibn ‘Ubayd Allah al-Buhturi
  43. Ibn al-Rumi
  44. Adam ibn ‘Abd al-‘Aziz al-Umawi
  45. Abu al-‘Aliya
  46. ‘Ali ibn Abi Hashim
  47. ‘Abd Allah ibn al-Mu‘tazz
  48. Muhammad ibn Dawud al-Isfahani
  49. ‘Ubayd Allah ibn ‘Abd Allah ibn Tahir
  50. ‘Ali ibn al-Husayn al-Wasiti
  51. al-Husayn ibn Mansur al-Hallaj
  52. Abu ‘Abd Allah Ibrahim ibn Muhammad Niftawayhi
  53. Anon.
  54. Anon.
  55. Ibn al-Tammar al-Wasiti
  56. ‘Ali ibn Muhammad al-Tanukhi
  57. Mansur ibn Kayaghlagh
  58. Abu Ishaq al-Sabi
  59. Abu al-Hasan ‘Ali ibn ‘Abd al-‘Aziz al-Jurjani
  60. al-Sharif al-Radi
  61. al-Tahir ibn al-Muzaffar ibn Tahir al-Khazin
  62. ‘Ali ibn al-Faraj al-Shafi‘i
  63. Muhammad ibn ‘Abd Allah al-Salami
  64. Ma‘dan al-Taghlibi
  65. Abu Sa‘d Muhmmad ibn ‘Ali ibn Khalaf al-Nayramani
  66. ‘Ali ibn Zurayq Abu al-Hasan al-Baghdadi
  67. Abu Muhammad ‘Abd al-Wahhab al-Maliki
  68. al-Sharif al-Murtada
  69. Abu al-‘Ala’ al-Ma‘arri
  70. Abu al-Ma‘ali
  71. Abu al-Fadl ibn Muhammad al-Khazin al-Katib
  72. Usama ibn Munqidh
  73. Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Shumay‘a al-Baghdadi
  74. Muhyi al-Din ibn al-‘Arabi
  75. Majd al-Din Husayn ibn al-Dawami
  76. al-Majd al-Nashabi
  77. Taqi al-Din ibn Abi al-Yusr
  78. Sa‘di Shirazi
  79. Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn ‘Abd Allah al-Kufi
  80. Shams al-Din Mahmud ibn Ahmad al-Hashimi al-Hanafi
  81. Abu al-Khayr ‘Abd al-Rahman Zayn al-Din al-Suwaydi
  82. ‘Abd al-Ghani al-Jamil
  83. Shihab al-Din Abu al-Thana’ Mahmud al-Alusi
  84. ‘Abd al-Ghaffar al-Akhras al-Mawsili
  85. Radi al-Qazwini
  86. ‘Abd al-Hamid al-Shawi
  87. Ahmad al-Shawi
  88. Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi
  89. Ahmad Shawqi
  90. Hafiz Ibrahim
  91. Ma‘ruf al-Rusafi
  92. Iliyya Abu Madi
  93. Anwar Sha’ul
  94. Murad Michael
  95. Mir Basri
  96. Mishil Haddad
  97. Nizar Qabbani
  98. Nazik al-Mala’ika
  99. Ibrahim Ovadia
  100. ‘Ali Sidqi ‘Abd al-Qadir
  101. Badr Shakir al-Sayyab
  102. Buland al-Haydari
  103. ‘Abd al-Wahhab al-Bayyati
  104. Shadhil Taqa
  105. Adonis
  106. Muhammad Jamil Shalash
  107. Salah ‘Abd al-Sabur
  108. Sa‘di Yusuf
  109. Ahmad ‘Abd al-Mu‘ti Hijazi
  110. Sadiq al-Sa’igh
  111. Samih al-Qasim
  112. Fadil al-‘Azzawi
  113. Sami Mahdi
  114. May Muzaffar
  115. Mahmud Darwish
  116. Su‘ad al-Sabah
  117. Sharif al-Rubay‘i
  118. Sargon Boulus
  119. Abdul Kader El Janabi
  120. Faruq Juwayda
  121. ‘Ali Ja‘far al-‘Allaq
  122. ‘Abd al-Rahman Touhmazi
  123. Bushra al-Bustani
  124. Ronny Someck
  125. Wafa’ ‘Abd al-Razzaq
  126. Ahlam Mustaghanimi
  127. Ibrahim Zaydan and Qays Majid al-Mawla
  128. ‘Abid ‘Ali al-Rammahi
  129. Sinan Antoon
  130. Dalya Riyad
  131. Manal al-Shaykh
  132. Afterword by Abdul Kader El Janabi
  133. References
  134. Index of Poets
  135. Index of Titles

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