The epic of the Dayaghim among the Al Issa tribe of Jordan

Nino Van Reisen of Gothenburg University has this audio recording of a section of the Epic of the Dayaghim as narrated by members of the al-Madhi leading clan of the tribe of Aal Issa in Northern Jordan.

The recording features a story about Arar ibn Shahwan’s stallion Mashhur. As Arabic listeners will gather, the pedigree of Mashhur as well as his offspring are of central importance to this Northern Najdi version of the epic which Nino believes to very close to the original epic. It was recorded in 1982.