Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia, Volume 2 Story of a Desert Knight: The Legend of SlewihI? al-'AtI?awi and other 'Utaybah Heroes. An Edition with Translation and Int Book

	Acknowledgments
	Notation Symbols
	Illustrations
	Introduction	1
	Preface: the Poet and the Rawi	3
	Bedouin Oral Culture	10
	Transmission of Poetry	10
	The Sheikhs of ar-Rugah and the Village Poet	13
	Muhig al-Gannami	15
	Entertainment in the Majlis	18
	Tribal Raiding in the Past as a Subject of Today's Majlis Conversation	20
	The 'Days of the Arabs'	22
	The Heroic Character and the Anti-Hero	25
	The Transmitter and the Performance Context	28
	Xalid ibn Slewih	28
	Sheikh and Desert Politician	30
	In Xalid's Majlis	40
	Xalid as a Majlis Performer	47
	Recording with Xalid	51
	The House of Slewih	54
	Family Tree of Xalid ibn Slewih	55
	The Tebah Tribe	59
	Table of Tebah Tribes	60
	Interpretation of the Text	65
	The Story and the Poem	65
	General Remarks on the Relation between Poem and Narrative	74
	Slewih and History	76
	Warfare and Raiding	81
	Relations with Barga	84
	The Desert Knight	86
	Inverted Gazal and Backhanded Praise	87
	Love Poetry	91
	Poems by Sons of Slewih	92
	Poems by Women of Duwi Atiyyah	93
	With the Siyabin at ad-Dakhul: Reaching for the Past	97
	This Edition and Other Editions	105
	Language and Prosody	110
	Language	110
	Style and Prosody of the Poetry	124
	Note on Transcription	137
	Text and Translation	141
	Slewih ibn Maiz al-Atawi	142
	The Beginning of a Raid Commander's Career	142
	The Desert Knight	158
	A Face Marked by the Sun	168
	The Battle of Talal	178
	Raids, Warfare and Tribal Quarrels	190
	Love Poetry	208
	Two Verses of Wisdom	216
	The Death of Slewih	216
	Bxit ibn Maiz	222
	A Dirge on His Mare	222
	A Lower-Class Bedouin	232
	Warfare with the Tribe of al-Bgum	238
	Warfare with the Salawa Tribe	252
	Bxit's Poetic Romancing with a Lady of the Bgum	256
	Bxit's Verse in Praise of His Tribal Area	264
	Other Members of the Family and Tribe	266
	Ditties by Slewih's Sons (Fajir, Fari, Gaid)	266
	Poem by Slewih's Daughter al-Ati	274
	Ibn Slewih's Relation to the al-Barrag Family	274
	Poems by Women Married into the Slewih Clan (Sarah, Hdayah)	276
	Some Poems by Marsa al-Atawiyyah	282
	Two Narratives by Ibn Nwayyir of as-Siyabin	288
	Glossary	317
	App. Examples of Scansion	471
	App. Variant Readings of the Poems	478
	App. Place Names	499
	App. Sources of Reference	509
	App. Map	513