The Immortal Voices of Arabic Poetry

The Immortal Voices of Arabic Poetry: Abū Tammām al-Buḥturī and al-Mutanabbī gathers three pillars of the classical canon in fresh balanced translations. Abū Tammām appears as architect-anthologist whose argued couplets and Ḥamāsah reshape taste; al-Buḥturī as master of music and scene-spring odes ekphrasis (the Īwān of Kisrā) praise as ethical scenography; al-Mutanabbī as voltage and aphorism where battlefield and maxim share one cadence. An introduction orients readers to period patronage and form; concise headnotes anchor occasion and genre; transliteration accompanies idiomatic English so cadence image-density and rhetorical design survive without over-domestication. Built for classrooms and first encounters as well as specialists the volume restores scale pressure and context-showing how Arabic verse could mourn and magnify teach and dazzle argue and endure in a single line.