What others said about Arabic From the author's own Arabic
In his preface to the Arabic edition of The Zephyrs of Najd:
“In short, my book on the zephyrs of Najd is a book about the essence and depth of that radical utterance we call ‘poetry’ – Arabic and universal. And if we are to ‘live’ this universal poetry in its essence and depth, with full awareness, we must begin from our point of departure, which is Arabic poetry – or let it be the song that guides us through the stages of our passage across the horizons of radical utterance.”
The Arabic original
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The text is as printed in the author’s preface to the Arabic edition, signed “Bloomington, Indiana, 20 January 2003”; the book does not say whether he wrote it in Arabic or it was translated. The book first appeared in English as The Zephyrs of Najd (Chicago 1993). Read in a printed copy; no link, as the edition is in copyright. The English is ours. The ḥādī is the camel driver who leads the caravan with song; by ‘radical utterance’ he means poetry at its root.
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