![]() Ibn Sbayyil, a town dweller from the Najd region of the Arabian Peninsula, was a key figure in the Nabaṭī poetic tradition. Such images lend poignancy to the suffering of the poet’s love-stricken heart, while also painting a vivid portrait of typical Bedouin life. ![]() Scenes from Arabian life at the turn of the twentieth centuryĪrabian 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 proud warriors who are at the mercy of their enemy on the field of battle.
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