Middle Eastern category: 410 books
by Basuli Deb
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
This book offers a transnational feminist response to the gender politics of torture and terror from the viewpoint of populations of color who have come to be associated with acts of terror. Using the War on Terror in Afghanistan and Iraq, this book revisits other such racialized wars in Palestine,...
Interpreting al-Tha'labi's Tales of the Prophets
Temptation, Responsibility and Loss
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Al-Tha’labi was a renowned Qur’anic scholar of the fifth/eleventh century, and his ‘Ara’is al-majalis is arguably the finest and most widely consulted example of the Islamic qisas al-anbiya’ genre.
Drawing on primary Arabic sources, Klar applies modern critical methods in order to...
Neighborhood and Boulevard
Reading through the Modern Arab City
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
Combines the styles of memoir, history, anthropology, and theory to develop an innovative reflection on the materiality of culture. Through its style and content, the text challenges the Orientalist bifurcation between tradition and modernity in the Arab world, revealing instead tradition's own dynamism and its coexistence alongside modernity.
Negotiating the Modern
Orientalism and Indianness in the Anglophone World
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2007
This book explicates long-standing literary celebrations of 'India' and 'Indian-ness' by charting a cultural history of Indianness in the Anglophone world, locating moments (in intellectual, religious and cultural history) where India and Indianness are offered up as solutions to modern moral, ethical...
General Introduction to Persian Literature
History of Persian Literature A, Vol I
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2008
Persian literature is the jewel in the crown of Persian culture. It has profoundly influenced the literatures of Ottoman Turkey, Muslim India and Turkic Central Asia and been a source of inspiration for Goethe, Emerson, Matthew Arnold and Jorge Luis Borges among others. Yet Persian literature has...
Mahmud Sami al-Barudi
Reconfiguring Society and the Self
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
To explore the life of Mahmud Sami al-Barudi is to gain a nuanced perspective on the many facets—the perils and promises—of change in the rapidly modernizing Egypt of the nineteenth century. Al-Barudi, sole scion of a Turko-Circassian elite family that clung precariously to a legacy of position...
Ottoman Cuisine
A Rich Culinary Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Going all the way back to earliest Ottoman cookbooks, chef M. Omur Akkor has collected a rich sampling of Ottoman meals. These recipes, taken from great chefs of the Ottoman's great palaces and from the ordinary kitchens of Ottoman homes, provide a delicious introduction to the kind of cuisines that...
Giving Voice to Stones
Place and Identity in Palestinian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
"A struggle between two memories" is how Palestinian poet Mahmud Darwish describes the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis. Within this struggle, the meanings of land and home have been challenged and questioned, so that even heaps of stones become points of contention. Are they proof...
by Paulo Lemos Horta
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Ranging from the coffeehouses of Aleppo to the salons of Paris, from Calcutta to London, Paulo Lemos Horta introduces the poets and scholars, pilgrims and charlatans who made largely unacknowledged contributions to Arabian Nights. Each version betrays the distinctive cultural milieu in which it was produced.
by Humphrey Davies, Yusuf al-Shirbini
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Unique in pre-20th-century Arabic literature for taking the countryside as its central theme, Yusuf al-Shirbini’s Brains Confounded combines a mordant satire on seventeenth-century Egyptian rural society with a hilarious parody of the verse-and-commentary genre so beloved by scholars of his day.
In...
by Humphrey Davies, Yusuf al-Shirbini
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Unique in pre-20th-century Arabic literature for taking the countryside as its central theme, Yusuf al-Shirbini’s Brains Confounded combines a mordant satire on seventeenth-century Egyptian rural society with a hilarious parody of the verse-and-commentary genre so beloved by scholars of his day.
In...
Gibran, Rihani & Naimy
East–West Interactions in Early Twentieth-Century Arab Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Originally published in Russian during the final years of the Soviet Union, this volume examines the influences of foreign literary movements, specifically Romanticism and Realism, on the three authors examined within. By viewing Gibran and Rihani’s works in the light of English poets such as Wordsworth,...
Women and Islam
Myths, Apologies, and the Limits of Feminist Critique
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
Muslim women of all ages, economic status, educational backgrounds, sexual orientations, and from different parts of historically Muslim countries suffer the kinds of atrocities that violate common understandings of human rights and are normally denounced as criminal or pathological, yet these actions...
by Nathaniel Greenberg
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
The Aesthetic of Revolution in the Film and Literature of Naguib Mahfouz (1952–1967) examines the impact of revolution on one of the great literary minds of the twentieth century: the Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz. Concentrating on the years following the 1952 Free-Officers’ Coup that...