{"collection":"Texts of Islam","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_arp_arp100_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_arp_arp100_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_isl_arp_arp100_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/arp/arp100.htm","summary":"This is a prose narrative excerpt from the medieval Arabic heroic romance cycle of Antar (Antarah ibn Shaddad), presented in W. A. Clouston's 1881 anthology *Arabian Poetry*. The passage belongs to the tradition of Arabic chivalric epic, blending adventure, tribal honor, and providential destiny around the legendary warrior-hero Antar. The central episode follows Antar's chance intervention in a fight between two brothers over an extraordinary sword called Dhami \u2014 forged from a meteorite by a blacksmith whom the brothers' ancestor immediately killed upon completion, a detail that establishes the sword's violent, fateful character. A dying father had secretly bequeathed the weapon to his younger son to protect him from a tyrannical elder brother, describing it as valuable enough to enrich any king in the known world. Antar sides with the younger brother, kills the elder without hesitation, and then \u2014 sitting in the sand afterward \u2014 accidentally discovers the buried sword himself, which the narrative frames as divine confirmation of his singular destiny. The text's most distinctive quality is its matter-of-fact fusion of brutality and providence: killings are casual, yet each one advances a cosmic scheme in which Antar's glory is preordained by God.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Arabian Poetry: The Romance of Antar: How Antar Found the Sword Dhami","tradition":"Texts of Islam","translated_text":null,"word_count":1156}