Middle Eastern category: 410 books
Arabic Poetry
Trajectories of Modernity and Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Since the late 1940s, Arabic poetry has spoken for an Arab conscience, as much as it has debated positions and ideologies, nationally and worldwide. This book tackles issues of modernity and tradition in Arabic poetry as manifested in poetic texts and criticism by poets as participants in transformation...
by Aviva Butt
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
The first two essays in Poets from a War Torn World are about mysticism in modern Arabic poetry. The second two essays are about literary philosophy in modern Hebrew poetry. All four essays focus on the 1960s and 1970s, a time when poets hoped that through their writings they could help bring peace...
From Schlemiel to Sabra
Zionist Masculinity and Palestinian Hebrew Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2019
Philip Hollander is a new voice in gender and literary studies of the early years of the Yishuv, Zionist Palestine prior to the establishment of the state of Israel.
Hollander grapples with the importance of images of potent masculinity in the foundation of the state and advancement of...
Alexandrian Cosmopolitanism
An Archive
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Interrogating how Alexandria became enshrined as the exemplary cosmopolitan space in the Middle East, this book mounts a radical critique of Eurocentric conceptions of cosmopolitanism. The dominant account of Alexandrian cosmopolitanism elevates things European in the city’s culture and simultaneously...
Committed to Disillusion
Activist Writers in Egypt from the 1950s to the 1980s
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Can a writer help to bring about a more just society? This question was at the heart of the movement of al-adab al-multazim, or committed literature, which claimed to dominate Arab writing in the mid-twentieth century. By the 1960s, however, leading Egyptian writers had retreated into disillusionment,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
The essays in this book analyze a range of genres and considers geographical areas beyond the Ottoman Empire to deepen our post-Saidian understanding of the complexity of real and imagined "traffic" between England and the "Islamic worlds" it encountered and constructed.
Writing and Representation in Medieval Islam
Muslim Horizons
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
With contributions from specialists in different areas of classical Islamic thought, this accessible volume explores the ways in which medieval Muslims saw, interpreted and represented the world around them in their writings.
Focusing mainly on the eighth to tenth centuries AD, known as the...
Islam on the Street
Religion in Modern Arabic Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Islam on the Street deals with the popular side of Islam, as described not only in tracts and manuals written by Sufi shaykhs and Islamist thinkers from among the more militant groups in Islam, but also in writings by other, more secular thinkers who have also influenced public opinion. A scholar...
A Matter of Fate
The Concept of Fate in the Arab World as Reflected in Modern Arabic Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2001
Dalya Cohen-Mor examines the evolution of the concept of fate in the Arab world through readings of religious texts, poetry, fiction, and folklore. She contends that belief in fate has retained its vitality and continues to play a pivotal role in the Arabs' outlook on life and their social psychology....
Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur and Arabic Writerly Culture
A Ninth Century Bookman in Baghdad
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Toorawa re-evaluates the literary history and landscape of third to ninth century Baghdad by demonstrating and emphasizing the significance of the important transition from a predominantly oral-aural culture to an increasingly literate one. This transformation had a profound influence on the production...
Literature, Journalism and the Avant-Garde
Intersection in Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
The author explores the role of journalism in Egypt in effecting and promoting the development of modern Arabic literature from its inception in the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Remapping the literary scene in Egypt over recent decades, Kendall focuses on the independent, frequently...
The Sword of Ambition
Bureaucratic Rivalry in Medieval Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
The Sword of Ambition belongs to a genre of religious polemic written for the rulers of Egypt and Syria between the twelfth and the fourteenth centuries. Unlike most medieval Muslim polemic, the concerns of this genre were more social and political than theological. Leaving no rhetorical stone unturned,...
by Muhsin al-Musawi
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2009
In this fascinating study, Muhsin J. al-Musawi shows how deeply Islamic heritage and culture is embedded in the tales of The Thousand and One Nights (known to many as the Arabian Nights) and how this integration invites readers to make an Islamic milieu. Conservative Islam dismisses The Thousand and...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
The romantic lyricism of the great Persian poet Hafiz (1315-1390) continues to be admired around the world. Recent exploration of that lyricism by Iranian scholars has revealed that, in addition to his masterful use of poetic devices, Hafiz's verse is deeply steeped in the philosophy and symbolism...