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Books by 'Antarah ibn Shaddad

'Antarah ibn Shaddad was one of the most famous warrior-poets of pre-Islamic Arabia. A semi-legendary hero from the 6th century AD, 'Antarah was born into slavery as the son of an Arab father and an African mother. Many of his poems are about his love for 'Ablah, daughter of the tribe's shaykh--a love thwarted by his low social status. James E. Montgomery, author of Al-Jahiz: In Praise of Books, is Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity Hall. His latest publications are Loss Sings, a collaboration with the celebrated Scottish artist Alison Watt, and Diwan 'Antarah ibn Shaddad: A Literary-Historical Study. Richard Sieburth is a professor of French and Comparative Literature at New York University and an award-winning translator of works by Henri Michaux, Michel Leiris, George Buchner, Walter Benjamin, and Friedrich Hoelderlin. His translation of Gerard de Nerval's Selected Writings won the PEN/Book-of-the-Month-Club Translation Prize. Peter Cole has published several books of poems and many volumes of translations from Hebrew and Arabic, both medieval and modern. He has received numerous honors for his work, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, and in 2007 he was named a MacArthur Fellow.

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