Fate the Hunter: Early Arabic Hunting Poems

Letter from the General Editor
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Map: The Tribes of Pre-Islamic Arabia
Note on the Text
Notes to the Introduction
1 Fate the Hunter
2 Imruʾ al-Qays: Echoes of Love Lost
3 ʿAbīd ibn al-Abraṣ: That Mighty Hunter the Eagle
4 ʿAbīd ibn al-Abraṣ: The Seas of Poetry
5 Al-Muraqqish al-Akbar: When Vultures Enter the Tents
6 Al-Shanfarā: Like a Spleen-Dark Wolf
7 Ṣakhr al-Ghayy: The Workings of Fate
8 Labīd ibn Rabīʿah: In the Grip of the North Wind
9 Al-Muzarrid ibn Ḍirār: My Flood of Words
9 Abū Dhuʾayb: Fate the Hunter
10 Al-Ḥuṭayʾah: Slaughter Me, Father
11 Ḥumayd al-Arqaṭ: A Tall-Necked Horse
12 Ghaylān ibn Ḥurayth: A Hunter since Her Youth
13 Ghaylān ibn Ḥurayth: A Stipple-Cheeked Gos
14 Al-Shamardal ibn Sharīk: Her Assegai Beak
15 Al-Shamardal ibn Sharīk: His Dark Elation
16 Al-Shamardal ibn Sharīk: An Irate Stare
17 Al-Shamardal ibn Sharīk: A Dark Gos
18 Al-Shamardal ibn Sharīk: Like a Mill
19 Al-Shamardal ibn Sharīk: Clothes Ignite
20 Al-Shamardal ibn Sharīk: Like Two Rubies
21 Al-Shamardal ibn Sharīk: Dawn Shines Pink
22 Abū l-Najm al-ʿIjlī: Harried by the Jinn
23 Abū l-Najm al-ʿIjlī: Dyed Dark with Gore
24 Abū l-Najm al-ʿIjlī: Full of Bloodlust
25 Abū l-Najm al-ʿIjlī: Coils Scraping on Coils
26 Abū l-Najm al-ʿIjlī: The Hills Shimmered
27 ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Kātib: To the Beat of the Drums
Note to the English Translation
Glossary
Bibliography
Further Reading
Index
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