The Merchant of Art: An Egyptian Hilali Oral Epic Poet in Performance

Table of Contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: The Poet Outcast
• Chapter 2: The Poet and the Ethnographer
• Chapter 3: The History of the Arabs According to cAwaḍallah
• Chapter 4: The Story of cĀmir Khafāji: Versions and Variants
• Chapter 5: Poetics and Performance
  • Performance text: Section I: lines 1-218
  • Section II: lines 219-553
  • Section III: lines 554-1151
  • Section IV: lines 1152-1347
• Chapter 6: Conclusion
• Appendix A: Notes on Translation and Transliteration
• Appendix B: Partial List of Oral-Formulaic Phrases and Epithets
• Bibliography
• Index