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Date: 18 Oct 2007
From:"Dr. M Deeb" <muhammaddeeb at gmail.com>
Subject:Muallaqaat translations into English

*Here is a select chronological bibliography on English translations of
pre-Islamic poetry:*

    - William Jones.  *The Mo'allakat or Seven Arabian Poems.*  1877.

    - Charles J. Lyall.  *Translations of Ancient Arabian Poetry,  
chiefly
    pre-Islamic, with an introduction*.   1885; rpt. 1981.

    -  F. E. Johnson. * The Seven Poems Suspended in the Temple of  
Mecca*.
    1893.

    - Lady Anne and Sir Wilfred Scawen Blunt.  *The Seven Golden Odes  
of*
    *Pagan Arabia*.  1903.

    - Charles J. Lyall.  *The Diwans of 'Abid ibn al-Abras and 'Amir ibn
    at-Tufail*.  1913.

    - R. A. Nicholson.  *Translations from Eastern Poetry and Prose.*
    1922; rpt. 1987.  (It is worth noting that Nicholson's *A literary
    History of the Arabs*, 1907; rpt. 1956, contains ample  
translations of
    pre-Islamic and classical poetry.)

    - A. J. Arberry.  *The Seven Odes*.  1957.

    - Michael Sells.  *Desert Tracings*.  1984.

    - Alan Jones.  *Early Arabic Poetry*.  Vol. 2.  1996.

    - Desmond O'Grady.  *The Golden Odes of Love = al-Mu'allaqat /  
Verse*
    *Rendering from the Arabic*.  19997.

-- 
M. Deeb
English, Comparative Literature & Cultural Studies


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