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Warfare and Poetry in the Middle East (Hardcover)
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Part of the rich legacy of the Middle East is a poetic record
stretching back five millennia. This unparalleled repository of
knowledge - across different languages, cultures and religions -
allows us to examine continuity and change in human expression from
the beginnings of writing to the present day. In Warfare and Poetry
in the Middle East leading scholars draw upon this legacy to
explore the ways in which poets, from the third millennium bc to
the present day, have responded to effects of war. The contributors
deal with material in a wide variety of languages - including
Sumerian, Hittite, Akkadian, biblical and modern Hebrew, and
classical and contemporary Arabic - and range from the Sumerian
lament on the destruction of Ur and the Assyrian conquest of
Jerusalem to the al-R?miyy?t of the poet and warrior prince Ab?
Fir?s al-?amd?n?, the popular Arabic epics and romances that form
the siyar, to the contemporary poetry of Hamas and Hezbollah. Some
of the poems are heroic in tone celebrating victory and the prowess
of warriors and soldiers; others reflect keenly on the pity and
destruction of warfare, on the grief and suffering that war
causes.The result is a work that provides a unique reflection upon
the ways in which this most violent and pervasive of human
activities has been reflected in different cultures. The history of
war begins in the Middle East - the earliest reported conflict in
human history was fought between the neighbouring city states of
Lagash and Umma in ancient Iraq. At a time when the Middle East
seems to be permanently at war and wracked by violence, it is
salutary to look back at the ancient roots of modern attitudes and
to see that in the past, as in the present, these attitudes are
much more varied, and the emotions more subtle, than often
realised.
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