Arabian Romantic: Poems on Bedouin Life and Love

Author: 'Abdallah ibn Sbayyil Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Love poems from late nineteenth-century Arabia Arabian Romantic captures what it was like to live in central Arabia before the imposition of austere norms by the Wahhabi authorities in the early twentieth century: tales of robbery and hot pursuit; perilous desert crossings; scenes of exhaustion and chaos when water is raised from deep wells under harsh conditions; the distress of wounded and worn-out animals on the brink of perdition; once...Read more