In deadly embrace : Arabic hunting poems / Abdallah ibn al-Mu'tazz ; edited and translated by James E. Montgomery.

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In deadly embrace : Arabic hunting poems / Abdallah ibn al-Mu'tazz ; edited and translated by James E. Montgomery.

Poems. Selections. English

9781479836000 ePub ebook
1479836001
9781479836024 (electronic bk.)
1479836028 (electronic bk.)
9781479835997

New York : New York University Press, 2025.

English

Parallel text in Arabic and English.

1 online resource (192 pages).

CIPO000248758

PJ7745.I16

A collection of poems about nature and power To Ibn al-Muʻtazz 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-Muʻtazz--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-Muʻtazz 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.

Originally published: 2023.

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