Description: A much-needed study of pre-Islamic poetry from Arabia, that fills a key gap in understanding not only the history of Arabian poetry, but also of Arabian ethos and ideology. What emerges is a complex, stylized discourse which reflects a distinctive cosmology.
Brief description: Nadia Jamil is a Senior Researcher for the ERC funded Documenting Multiculturalism project, Research Associate of the Khalili Research Centre, and Supernumerary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford.