History
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
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