By P. Marcel Kurpershoek
Voices from the desolate tract is the 5th and concluding quantity of P. Marcel Kurpershoek’s Corpus Oral Poetry & Narratives from relevant Arabia. the 1st quantity seemed in 1994. within the Preface the writer appears to be like again on his virtually two decades of involvement with Arabian oral tradition. He additionally discusses many of the amazing positive factors of the traditions amassed in those volumes, and their value in the broader political, social, and cultural context of the tribal procedure stretching from Yemen to the Anatolian highlands. An advent is through a consolidated thesaurus, comprising all information gathered and built-in from the glossaries of the former 4 volumes. This intricate word list not just refers back to the transcribed unique texts in Volumes 1-4, however it has additionally been prolonged with many examples originating from corresponding Classical Arabic vocabulary, and extra Western resources. additionally incorporated are the 3 imperative indices to the whole Corpus: the Index of topics, the Index of Tribal Names and the Index of right Names. an inventory of Recordings completes this quantity. the unique recordings of the poets and transmitters, within the order of the broadcast textual content with an outline of the tracks’ contents, could be downloaded as MP3 records from Brill educational Publishers’ site.
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Ma āwī ‘retreat, shelter, abode, resting place’). awa, yāwi ‘to awiyy – bj 7 have mercy, consideration for’ <674> (CA awā, ya wī l- ‘to be compassionate for, feel pity for’). awiyy awiyy, away = ayy w-allah an exclamatory particle, expressing admiration and praise Su, i, 114; iii, 132; JuA, 53
A - āni ‘the rest, the other(s)’ <387>. ma niy ‘double’ <9/2>
Bāri{ ‘excellent, outstanding, superior’ <4/17>. ) ‘uncovered, without veils’ <6/28>