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- Title
Two Archaic Poetic Compositions in Soqotri: 1905–1981–2012.
- Authors
Naumkin, Vltaly; Kogan, Leonid; Cherkashin, Dmitry; ʿĪsā ad-Daʿrhī, Aḥmad; Ad-Daʿrhī, ʿĪsa Gumʿān
- Abstract
The authors investigate the transmission history of two remarkable poetic compositions in the Modern South Arabian language Soqotri (the island Soqotra, Yemen). First published by D.H. Müller in the beginning of the twentieth century, they were recorded and studied anew by Naumkin more than seventy years later and then jointly by the authors of the present contribution in the course of their intensive fieldwork on the island in 2010–2012. The new editions are extensively annotated grammatically and lexically, whereas the Soqotri text is published not only in Semitological transcription, but also in Arabic script. A detailed comparative study of Müller's and Naumkin's versions of the poems concludes the article.
- Subjects
SOCOTRA (Yemen); SOKOTRI language; POETRY (Literary form); ARABIC language; AUTHORS
- Publication
Journal of Semitic Studies, 2014, Vol 59, Issue 1, p131
- ISSN
0022-4480
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jss/fgt038