In Deadly Embrace by Ibn al-Mu?tazz HARDBACK 9781479853182

In Deadly Embrace\nby Ibn al-Mu?tazz\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Ibn al-Mu?tazz\nTitle: In Deadly Embrace\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Poetry\nPublisher: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9781479853182\nISBN-10: 1479853186\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nA collection of poems about nature and power\nTo Ibn al-Mu?tazz and his Abbasid contemporaries, the hunt was more than a diversionit was the theater for their poetic and political endeavors, captured here in fifty-nine Arabic hunting poems, or ?ardiyyat. The poems of In Deadly Embrace describe hunting expeditions with animals trained to hunt, including saluki hounds and birds of prey. Many were composed after these outings, when the hunting party gathered to enjoy the game they caught. \nPoetry was central to Abb.