Description
This book compiles more than one hundred poems by four poets – Juma Bin Adel Al Rumaithi, Hamed Bin Ali al Madhous, Mohammed Bin Hamed Al Murri and Rashid Bin Salih Al Meqarih- dealing with a myriad of subjects and including a valuable glossary at the end of each poem. The Foreword, written by H.E. Ahmed Khalifa Al Suwaidi, shows the impact of popular poetry on the life of the people of the UAE and the Arabian Peninsula and gives a vivid picture of their life in the olden days. The necessity of preserving this heritage was emphasized by the late Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan who ordered the formation of the Emirates Heritage Committee to collect and preserve oral tradition. In the introduction to the second edition Mr. Saeed Salman Abu Aathira, who collected and edited all the poems in the book, states that Bedouin poetry encompassed a wide range of subjects, and added that in the past tribes used to monitor the poetry of the other tribes in order to know about their intentions and tendencies.
