The Sultanian Poem (al-Ṣuwāʿ al-Sulṭānī) The Royal Measuring Vessel: A Poem on the Life of Sultan ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd II

The Sultanian Poem (al-Ṣuwāʿ al-Sulṭānī)

The Royal Measuring Vessel: A Poem on the Life of Sultan ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd II

Composed by al-Ḥabīb Abū Bakr al-ʿAdanī ibn ʿAlī al-Mashhūr and recited in Jeddah on the centenary of the Sultan’s death. In two hundred and eighty verses it recounts the upbringing, reign, deposition and final years of Sultan ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd II, reading the turning points of his age through the Prophetic signs of the Hour.

This bilingual edition sets the Arabic beside a verse-by-verse English rendering.

76 pages · Arabic and English