Antarah ibn Shaddad's guest appearances

Antarah ibn Shaddad

In Our Time

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Edward Gibbon

Edith Wharton

Eugene Onegin

Margery Kempe

Matteo Ricci

Thomas Browne

Titus Oates

Thomas Hardy

Julius Caesar

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Alfred Russel Wallace

Marie Antoinette

John Clare

Owain Glyndwr

Robert Burns

OwlTail

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life, works, context and legacy of Antarah (525-608AD), the great poet and warrior.  According to legend, he was born a slave; his mother was an Ethiopian slave, his father an elite Arab cavalryman.  Antarah won his freedom in battle and loved a woman called Abla who refused him, and they were later celebrated in the saga of Antar and Abla. One of Antarah's poems was so esteemed in pre-Islamic Arabia that it is believed it was hung up on the wall of the Kaaba in Mecca. With James MontgomerySir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic at the University of CambridgeMarlé HammondSenior Lecturer in Arabic Popular Literature and Culture at SOAS, University of LondonAnd Harry MuntLecturer in Medieval History at the University of YorkProducer: Simon Tillotson

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life, works, context and legacy of Antarah (525-608AD), the great poet and warrior. According to legend, he was born a slave; his mother was an Ethiopian slave, his father an elite Arab cavalryman. Antarah won his freedom in battle and loved a woman called Abla who refused him, and they were later celebrated in the saga of Antar and Abla. One of Antarah's poems was so esteemed in pre-Islamic Arabia that it is believed it was hung up on the wall of the Kaaba in Mecca. With James Montgomery Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic at the University of Cambridge Marlé Hammond Senior Lecturer in Arabic Popular Literature and Culture at SOAS, University of London And Harry Munt Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of York Producer: Simon Tillotson