The Tale of Princess Fatima, Warrior Woman: The Arabic Epic of Dhat al-Himma – Melanie Magidow (translator) Free Audiobook

Written by Melanie Magidow (translator)
Read by Dalia Ramahi
Format: MP3
Bitrate: Variable
Abridged

The Tale of Princess Fatima, Warrior Woman is an ancient work of Arabic literature, and the only Arabic epic named for a woman. Thought to have been composed between 1100 and 1143 in Northern Syria and spread via oral retellings, the epic is set around the seventh through ninth centuries and tells of Princess Fatima of the Bani Kilab, a formidable warrior who leads her tribe in the Arab-Byzantine Wars. Penguin Classics brings the most extensive translation into English of the original epic, translated, edited and selected by translator and scholar Melanie Magidow, covering eleven episodes of the original’s 455, so that the story can be enjoyed by an anglophone audience.

August 3 2021
6 hrs and 23 mins