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On the Art of Medieval Arabic Literature

Author : Andras Hamori
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400869358
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book On the Art of Medieval Arabic Literature written by Andras Hamori and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In applying the standards of modern literary criticism to medieval Arabic literature, Andras Hamori concentrates on those aspects of the literature that appear most alien to modern Western taste: the limitation of themes, the sedimentation with conventions, and the use of elusive patterns of composition. The first part of the book approaches Arabic literature from the historical point of view, concentrating on the transformations in poetic genres and poetic attitudes towards time and society in the literature between the sixth and the tenth centuries. The problems of poetic technique are then discussed, with special emphasis on poetic unity and the use of conventions. The third part of the book deals with methods of composition in prose through an examination of the orders and disorders in two tales from the Arabian Nights. Originally published in 1974. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Arabic Literary Salons in the Islamic Middle Ages

Author : Samer M. Ali
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268074976
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Arabic Literary Salons in the Islamic Middle Ages written by Samer M. Ali and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arabic literary salons emerged in ninth-century Iraq and, by the tenth, were flourishing in Baghdad and other urban centers. In an age before broadcast media and classroom education, salons were the primary source of entertainment and escape for middle- and upper-rank members of society, serving also as a space and means for educating the young. Although salons relied on a culture of oral performance from memory, scholars of Arabic literature have focused almost exclusively on the written dimensions of the tradition. That emphasis, argues Samer Ali, has neglected the interplay of oral and written, as well as of religious and secular knowledge in salon society, and the surprising ways in which these seemingly discrete categories blurred in the lived experience of participants. Looking at the period from 500 to 1250, and using methods from European medieval studies, folklore, and cultural anthropology, Ali interprets Arabic manuscripts in order to answer fundamental questions about literary salons as a social institution. He identifies salons not only as sites for socializing and educating, but as loci for performing literature and oral history; for creating and transmitting cultural identity; and for continually reinterpreting the past. A fascinating recovery of a key element of humanistic culture, Ali’s work will encourage a recasting of our understanding of verbal art, cultural memory, and daily life in medieval Arab culture.

Arabic Literature to the End of the Umayyad Period

Author : A. F. L. Beeston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521240158
Total Pages : 567 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (212 download)

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Download or read book Arabic Literature to the End of the Umayyad Period written by A. F. L. Beeston and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983-11-03 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History provides an invaluable source of reference of the intellectual, literary and religious heritage of the Arabic-speaking and Islamic world.

Arabic Literature for the Classroom

Author : Mushin al-Musawi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315451646
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Arabic Literature for the Classroom written by Mushin al-Musawi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents theoretical and methodical cultural concerns in teaching literatures from non-American cultures along with issues of cross-cultural communication, cultural competency and translation. Covering topics such as the 1001 Nights, Maqamat, Arabic poetry, women’s writing, classical poetics, issues of gender, race, and class, North African concerns, language acquisition through literature, Arab-spring writing, women’s correspondence, issues connected with the so called nahdah (revival) movement in the 19th century and many others, the book provides perspectives and topics that serve in both the planning of new courses and accommodation to already existing programs.

Themes in Medieval Arabic Literature

Author : Gustave Edmund Grunebaum
Publisher : Variorum Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Themes in Medieval Arabic Literature written by Gustave Edmund Grunebaum and published by Variorum Publishing. This book was released on 1981 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Spanish Hebrew Poetry and the Arabic Literary Tradition

Author : Arie Schippers
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004098695
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (986 download)

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Download or read book Spanish Hebrew Poetry and the Arabic Literary Tradition written by Arie Schippers and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1994 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work deals extensively with the Arabic themes and literary devices used by Hebrew Andalusian poets in 11th century Muslim (and Christian) Spain. Special interest is devoted to the four main poets of the Hebrew Golden Age in Spain, namely Samuel Ha-Nagid, Solomon Ibn Gabirol, Moses Ibn Ezra and Yehuda Ha-Lewi.

The Raven and the Falcon

Author : Hasan Shuraydi
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004278958
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book The Raven and the Falcon written by Hasan Shuraydi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book fills a long-standing gap in Arabic-Islamic studies. Following the informative and entertaining style of adab literature and based on a large number of relevant sources from a wide range of genres, Hasan Shuraydi presents a panoramic view of relevant themes that concern youth and old age in Medieval Arabic literature intended for both specialists and non-specialists. A pattern of binary oppositions runs through such themes, e.g., black/white, male/female, husband/wife, sacred/profane, paradise/this world, ignorance/wisdom, past/present, young/old, new/old, health/disease, sappy/dry, permitted/forbidden, lust/chastity, obedience/disobedience, experience/inexperience, folly/reason, sobriety/intoxication, parent/child, celibacy/marriage, present life/hereafter. Themes discussed include: aging, ambition, aphrodisiacs, beauty, education, feminist trends, hair dyeing, homosexuality, honoring age, jihad, life stages, longevity, love, marriage, sex.

Poems Of Wine & Revelry

Author : Jim Colville
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317846672
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Poems Of Wine & Revelry written by Jim Colville and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-27 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2005. Arabic literature has a distinguished tradition of bacchanals but none are so consistently entertaining or explicit or iconoclastic as those of Abu Nuwas al_hasan ibn Hani al-Hakami (c. 756-c.815), the 'bad boy' of Abbasid poetry. In his khamriyyat, Abu Nuwas offers a glimpse of the hedonistic and dissipated world he inhabited: the world of Baghdad high society at the zenith of the Abbasid caliphate. Yet there is also a modern and up-to-date feel about his poetry that makes it ideal for presentation to an English-speaking readership, some twelve centuries after his death.

Classical Arabic Literature

Author :
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814738265
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Classical Arabic Literature written by and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NYU Press and NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) announce the establishment of the Library of Arabic Literature (LAL), a new publishing series offering Arabic editions and English translations of the great works of classical Arabic literature. The translations, rendered in parallel-text format with Arabic and English on facing pages, will be undertaken by renowned scholars of Arabic literature and Islamic studies, and will include a full range of works, including poetry, poetics, fiction, religion, philosophy, law, science, history and historiography. Unprecedented in its scope, LAL will produce authoritative and fiable editions of the Arabic and modern, lucid English translations, introducing the treasures of the Arabic literary heritage to scholars and students, as well as to a general audience of readers.

Written Word in the Medieval Arabic Lands

Author : Konrad Hirschler
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748654216
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Written Word in the Medieval Arabic Lands written by Konrad Hirschler and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2012 BRISMES book prize. How the written text became accessible to wider audiences in medieval Egypt and Syria. Medieval Islamic societies belonged to the most bookish cultures of their period. Using a wide variety of documentary, narrative and normative sources, Konrad Hirschler explores the growth of reading audiences in a pre-print culture.The uses of the written word grew significantly in Egypt and Syria between the 11th and the 15th centuries, and more groups within society started to participate in individual and communal reading acts. New audiences in reading sessions, school curricula, increasing numbers of endowed libraries and the appearance of popular written literature all bear witness to the profound transformation of cultural practices and their social contexts.

The Book of Strangers

Author : Abóu al-Faraj al-IỲsbahóanī
Publisher : Markus Wiener Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Strangers written by Abóu al-Faraj al-IỲsbahóanī and published by Markus Wiener Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 10th century Iraqi took to collecting verse graffiti left behind by travellers. The result of his pastime was a little book that conjures up his nostalgic mood in a manner rarely attempted in Arabic literature. This work offers a translation of his work and discusses its cultural context.

The City in Arabic Literature

Author : Nizar F. Hermes
Publisher : EUP
ISBN 13 : 9781474455824
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (558 download)

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Download or read book The City in Arabic Literature written by Nizar F. Hermes and published by EUP. This book was released on 2019-11-27 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theme and motif of the city has had an enduring presence in the Arabic-Islamic tradition, from the classical and post-classical literary corpus to modern and post-colonial Arabic poetry and prose. Cities such as Mecca, Baghdad, Cairo, Damascus, Beirut, Qayrawan, Marrakesh and Cordoba have served as virtual (battle)grounds for some of the Arab world's most complex intellectual, sociocultural, and political issues. The Arab city has been transformed from a mere physical structure and textual space into an (auto)biographical, novelistic, and poetic arena-often troubled and contested-for debating the encounter, competition and conflict between the rural and the urban, the traditional and the modern, the meditative and the satiric, the individual and the communal, and the Self and Other(s).

Weeping for Dido

Author : Marjorie Curry Woods
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691170800
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Weeping for Dido written by Marjorie Curry Woods and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published as part of the E.H. Gombrich lecture series, cosponsored by the Warburg Institute and Princeton University Press. The lectures upon which this book is based were delivered in October 2014"--Copyright page.

The Medieval Islamic Republic of Letters

Author : Muhsin J. al-Musawi
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268158010
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (681 download)

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Download or read book The Medieval Islamic Republic of Letters written by Muhsin J. al-Musawi and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Medieval Islamic Republic of Letters: Arabic Knowledge Construction, Muhsin J. al-Musawi offers a groundbreaking study of literary heritage in the medieval and premodern Islamic period. Al-Musawi challenges the paradigm that considers the period from the fall of Baghdad in 1258 to the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1919 as an "Age of Decay" followed by an "Awakening" (al-nahdah). His sweeping synthesis debunks this view by carefully documenting a "republic of letters" in the Islamic Near East and South Asia that was vibrant and dynamic, one varying considerably from the generally accepted image of a centuries-long period of intellectual and literary stagnation. Al-Musawi argues that the massive cultural production of the period was not a random enterprise: instead, it arose due to an emerging and growing body of readers across Islamic lands who needed compendiums, lexicons, and commentaries to engage with scholars and writers. Scholars, too, developed their own networks to respond to each other and to their readers. Rather than addressing only the elite, this culture industry supported a common readership that enlarged the creative space and audience for prose and poetry in standard and colloquial Arabic. Works by craftsmen, artisans, and women appeared side by side with those by distinguished scholars and poets. Through careful exploration of these networks, The Medieval Islamic Republic of Letters makes use of relevant theoretical frameworks to situate this culture in the ongoing discussion of non-Islamic and European efforts. Thorough, theoretically rigorous, and nuanced, al-Musawi's book is an original contribution to a range of fields in Arabic and Islamic cultural history of the twelfth to eighteenth centuries.

The [European] Other in Medieval Arabic Literature and Culture

Author : N. Hermes
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781349292134
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (921 download)

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Download or read book The [European] Other in Medieval Arabic Literature and Culture written by N. Hermes and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-12-10 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contrary to the monolithic impression left by postcolonial theories of Orientalism, the book makes the case that Orientals did not exist solely to be gazed at. Hermes shows that there was no shortage of medieval Muslims who cast curious eyes towards the European Other and that more than a handful of them were interested in Europe.

The Matter of Araby in Medieval England

Author : Dorothee Metlitzki
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300114102
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (141 download)

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Download or read book The Matter of Araby in Medieval England written by Dorothee Metlitzki and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To understand the significance of Arabic material in medieval literature, we must recognize the concrete reality of Islam in the medieval European experience. Intimate contacts beginning with the Crusades yielded considerable knowledge about "Araby" beyond the merely stereotypical and propagandistic. Arabian culture was manifest in scientific and philosophical investigations; and the Arab presence pervaded medieval romance, where caricatures of Saracens were not merely a catering to popular taste but were a way of coping emotionally with a real threat. In England as well as in continental Europe, Islam figured in the best intellectual efforts of the age. Dorothee Metlitzki considers "Scientific and Philosophical Learning" in Part One of this book and discusses the transmission of Arabian culture, by way of the Crusades, and through the courts of Sicily and Spain. She sees the work of Latin translators from the Arabic in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries as the background of a medieval heritage of learning that expressed itself in the subject matter, theme, and imagery not only of a scholar-poet like Chaucer but also of the poets of popular romance. In Part Two, "The Literary Heritage," Metlitzki deals with Arabian source books, with Araby in history and romance, and with Mandeville's Travels. She concludes with a general assessment of the cultural force of Araby in England during the middle Ages.

Cultural Identity in Arabic Novels of Immigration

Author : Wessam Elmeligi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793600988
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Cultural Identity in Arabic Novels of Immigration written by Wessam Elmeligi and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural Identity in Arabic Novels of Immigration: A Poetics of Return offers a new perspective of migration studies that views the concept of migration in Arabic as inherently embracing the notion of return. Starting the study with the significance of the Islamic hijra as the quintessential migrant narrative in Arabic culture, Elmeligi offers readings of Arabic narratives as early as Ibn Tufayl’s Hayy ibn Yaqzan and as recent asMiral Al-Tahawy’s 2010 Brooklyn Heights, and asvaried as Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz’s short story adaptation of the ancient Egyptian Tale of Sinuhe and Yemeni novelist Mohammed Abdl Wali’s They Die Strangers, includingnovels that have not been translated in English before, such as Sonallah Ibrahim’s Amrikanli and Suhayl Idris’ The Latin Quarter. To contextualize these narratives, Elmeligi employs studies of cultural identity and their features that are most impacted by migration. In this study, Elmeligi analyzes the different manifestations of return, whether physical or psychological, commenting not only on the decisions that the characters take in the novels, but also the narrative choices that the writers make, thus viewing narrativity as a form of performativity of cultural identity as well. The book addresses fresh angles of migration studies, identity theory, and Arabic literary analysis that are of interest to scholars and students.