Publications

Publication details [#28705]

Palva, Heikki. 1992. Artistic colloquial Arabic: Traditional narratives and poems from al-Balqa (Jordan). (Studia Orientala 69). Finnish Oriental Society. 191 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

art discussion | dialect2 | language loss | oral poetry | poem

Language as a subject

Arabic, Bedouin

Annotation

This book considers the traditional Nabati poetry of the Bedouins of the al-Balqa district of Jordan.

Reviewed by

Kaye, Alan S. 1994. Review of $Artistic colloquial Arabic: Traditional narratives and poems from al-Balqa (Jordan).