Praying Mantis in the Desert. The Najdi Poet Ibn Subayyil Consumed with Love for the Bedouin

ʿAbdallah b. Subayyil (d. 1933) is the last great ghazal poet of the pre-oil era in Central Arabia. He was the headman of the small old town of Nifī. He is famous for his lively descriptions of the Bedouin tribes who would spend the summer at the wells of Nifī, and of the Bedouin beauties with whom...

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Main Author: Paul Marcel Kurpershoek
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre Français d’Archéologie et de Sciences Sociales de Sanaa
Series:Arabian Humanities
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/cy/2962