Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature – serie
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Gender, Nation, and the Arabic Novel
Egypt, 1892-2008
Av Hoda Elsadda
Inbunden, 2012
1759 kr
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Gender studies in Arabic literature has become equated with women's writing, leaving aside the possibility of a radical rethinking of the Arabic literary canon and Arab cultural history. While the 'woman question' in the Arabic novel has received considerable attention, the 'male question' has gone …
Arab Nahdah
The Making of the Intellectual and Humanist Movement
Inbunden, 2013
2183 kr
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To understand today's Arab thinking, you need to go back to the beginnings of modernity: the nahdah or Arab renaissance of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Abdulrazzak Patel enhances our understanding of the nahdah and its intellectuals, looking back to its origins in the 1700s and taking into …
Sonallah Ibrahim
Rebel with a Pen
Av Paul Starkey
Inbunden, 2016
1531 kr
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This volume is designed as an introduction to the contemporary Egyptian author Sonallah Ibrahim, one of the most important Arabic novelists of the modern era, with an unrivalled reputation for independence and integrity among contemporary Egyptian writers. The first study in any language devoted …
Sufism in the Contemporary Arabic Novel
Inbunden, 2012
2183 kr
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Sufi characters – saints, dervishes, wanderers – occur regularly in modern Arabic literature. A select group of novelists to interrogate Sufism as a system of thought and language. In the work of writers like Naguib Mahfouz, Gamal Al-Ghitany, Taher Ouettar, Ibrahim Al-Koni, Mahmud Al-Mas’adi and …
Iraqi Novel
Key Writers, Key Texts
Av Fabio Caiani, Catherine Cobham
Inbunden, 2013
1414 kr
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This exploration of the work of Iraqi novelists begins with the early pioneering works and then moves towards an outline of the vibrant Baghdad cultural scene during the 1940s and 1950s. It pays articular attention to detailed textual analysis and the evaluation and comparison of the aesthetic and …
Rifa'A Al-Tahtawi
A 19th-Century Egyptian Educationalist and Reformer
Inbunden, 2020
992 kr
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Rifa'a Rafi' al-Tahtawi (1801-73) was one of the most extraordinary scholars of his age, and the first Muslim to try to incorporate Western ideas and innovations into his native society. In spite of all this, it is surprising that many aspects of his works and thought remain under explored. This …
Post-War Anglophone Lebanese Fiction
Home Matters in the Diaspora
Av Syrine Hout
Inbunden, 2012
1498 kr
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This book examines the phenomenon of the post-civil war Anglophone Lebanese fictional narrative. The texts chosen for study have been produced in, and are substantially about, life in exile. They therefore deal not only with the brutal civil strife in Lebanon (1975-1990) but with one of its crucial …
Post-War Anglophone Lebanese Fiction
Home Matters in the Diaspora
Av Syrine Hout
E-bok, 2012
439 kr
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This book examines the phenomenon of the post-civil war Anglophone Lebanese fictional narrative. The texts chosen for study have been produced in, and are substantially about, life in exile. They therefore deal not only with the brutal civil strife in Lebanon (1975-1990) but with one of its crucial …
Occidentalism
Literary Representations of the Maghrebi Experience of the East-West Encounter
Inbunden, 2019
2270 kr
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Maghrebi literature published in the first half of the twentieth century is a subject that seldom receives focused scholarly treatment. This is partly due to limited availability of the books, some of which were printed in as few as fifty copies. Zahia Smail Salhi tracked down these rare works and …
Sufism in the Contemporary Arabic Novel
E-bok, 2012
545 kr
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Sufi characters – saints, dervishes, wanderers – occur regularly in modern Arabic literature. A select group of novelists to interrogate Sufism as a system of thought and language. In the work of writers like Naguib Mahfouz, Gamal Al-Ghitany, Taher Ouettar, Ibrahim Al-Koni, Mahmud Al-Mas’adi and …
Sufism in the Contemporary Arabic Novel
E-bok, 2014
545 kr
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Sufi characters – saints, dervishes, wanderers – occur regularly in modern Arabic literature. A select group of novelists to interrogate Sufism as a system of thought and language. In the work of writers like Naguib Mahfouz, Gamal Al-Ghitany, Taher Ouettar, Ibrahim Al-Koni, Mahmud Al-Mas’adi and …
Arab Nahdah
The Making of the Intellectual and Humanist Movement
E-bok, 2013
439 kr
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To understand today''s Arab thinking, you need to go back to the beginnings of modernity: the nahdah or Arab renaissance of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Abdulrazzak Patel enhances our understanding of the nahdah and its intellectuals, looking back to its origins in the 1700s and taking into …
Arab Nahdah
The Making of the Intellectual and Humanist Movement
E-bok, 2013
439 kr
Lägg i varukorg
To understand today''s Arab thinking, you need to go back to the beginnings of modernity: the nahdah or Arab renaissance of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Abdulrazzak Patel enhances our understanding of the nahdah and its intellectuals, looking back to its origins in the 1700s and taking into …
Iraqi Novel
Key Writers, Key Texts
Av Fabio Caiani, Catherine Cobham
E-bok, 2013
439 kr
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Catherine Cobham and Fabio Caiani look in depth at four authors who started writing in Iraq in or around the 1950s to explore a pivotal moment in Iraqi novel writing. They analyse the key texts by Abd al-Malik Nuri, Gha''ib Tu''ma Farman, Mahdi Isa al-Saqr and Fu''ad al-Takarli, evaluating and …
Sufism in the Contemporary Arabic Novel
Häftad, 2014
434 kr
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Sufi characters – saints, dervishes, wanderers – occur regularly in modern Arabic literature. A select group of novelists to interrogate Sufism as a system of thought and language. In the work of writers like Naguib Mahfouz, Gamal Al-Ghitany, Taher Ouettar, Ibrahim Al-Koni, Mahmud Al-Mas’adi and …
Writing Beirut
Mappings of the City in the Modern Arabic Novel
E-bok, 2015
352 kr
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Exploring the ways in which writers utilize the spaces of the city – joining the factual with the imaginary – this book shows how idiosyncratic perceptions of Beirut are produced, generating an infinite number of Beiruts. The city emerges as interactive, dynamic and historical, a place that is …
War and Occupation in Iraqi Fiction
Inbunden, 2015
2183 kr
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The last three decades in Iraqi history can be summarized in these words: dictatorship, war and occupation. After the fall of Saddam’s regime Iraqi novelists are not only writing about the occupation and the current disintegration of Iraq but are also revisiting previous wars that devastated their …
War and Occupation in Iraqi Fiction
E-bok, 2015
369 kr
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The last three decades in Iraqi history can be summarized in these words: dictatorship, war and occupation. After the fall of Saddam’s regime Iraqi novelists are not only writing about the occupation and the current disintegration of Iraq but are also revisiting previous wars that devastated their …
Arabic Exile Literature in Europe
Defamiliarising Forced Migration
Inbunden, 2022
1343 kr
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Since the 1990s, Arabic exile literature in Europe has increasingly become a literature written from the perspective of refugees, asylum seekers, undocumented migrants and others who are situated outside normatively defined citizenship. In this book, Johanna Sellman analyses the changing aesthetic …
Arabic Exile Literature in Europe
Defamiliarising Forced Migration
Häftad, 2024
542 kr
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Since the 1990s, Arabic exile literature in Europe has increasingly become a literature written from the perspective of refugees, asylum seekers, undocumented migrants and others who are situated outside normatively defined citizenship. In this book, Johanna Sellman analyses the changing aesthetic …
Gibran Khalil Gibran as Arab World Literature
Inbunden, 2024
2186 kr
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The monograph studies the Arab mahjari (emigre) writer Gibran Khalil Gibran (Kahlil Gibran) by examining his oeuvre as bilingual Arabic literature beyond biographical and culturalist approaches. It situates Gibran within his worldly contexts to unveil and analyse how the particular and the …
Gibran Khalil Gibran as Arab World Literature
Häftad, 2026
359 kr
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This monograph studies the Arab mahjari (émigré) writer Gibran Khalil Gibran (Kahlil Gibran) by examining his oeuvre as bilingual Arabic literature beyond biographical and culturalist approaches. It situates Gibran within his worldly contexts to unveil and analyse how the particular and the …
Gibran Khalil Gibran as Arab World Literature
E-bok, 2024
430 kr
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This monograph studies the Arab mahjari (émigré) writer Gibran Khalil Gibran (Kahlil Gibran) by examining his oeuvre as bilingual Arabic literature beyond biographical and culturalist approaches. It situates Gibran within his worldly contexts to unveil and analyse how the particular and the …
Gibran Khalil Gibran as Arab World Literature
E-bok, 2024
439 kr
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This monograph studies the Arab mahjari (émigré) writer Gibran Khalil Gibran (Kahlil Gibran) by examining his oeuvre as bilingual Arabic literature beyond biographical and culturalist approaches. It situates Gibran within his worldly contexts to unveil and analyse how the particular and the …
Latin American and Arab Literature
Transcontinental Exchanges
Inbunden, 2022
1455 kr
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Examines the circulation of literature, routes of comparison and the legacies of transcontinental tiesTraces cultural exchange between Latin America and the Arab world in the 20th and 21st centuries Examines the relationship between Latin American and Arabic literatures and the circulation of …
Latin American and Arab Literature
Transcontinental Exchanges
Häftad, 2024
561 kr
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Since the 19th century, Arab migration from the Ottoman Empire to Latin America and Latin American travel to the Arab world has created transcontinental routes and in the late 20th century, the translation of Latin American classics into Arabic flourished in the Arab world. Drawing on Latin …
Latin American and Arab Literature
Transcontinental Exchanges
E-bok, 2022
361 kr
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Since the 19th century, Arab migration from the Ottoman Empire to Latin America and Latin American travel to the Arab world has created transcontinental routes – and in the late 20th century, the translation of Latin American classics into Arabic flourished in the Arab world. Drawing on Latin …
Latin American and Arab Literature
Transcontinental Exchanges
E-bok, 2022
369 kr
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Since the 19th century, Arab migration from the Ottoman Empire to Latin America and Latin American travel to the Arab world has created transcontinental routes – and in the late 20th century, the translation of Latin American classics into Arabic flourished in the Arab world. Drawing on Latin …
War and Occupation in Iraqi Fiction
Häftad, 2023
561 kr
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Examines tangible experiences of war and occupation in recent Iraqi fictionExplores fictional works by a new generation of leading Iraqi authors such as Ali Badr, Shakir Nuri, Najm Wali and Hdiya HusseinProvides a historical contextualization of the Iraqi novel before and after the fall of Saddam …
Arab Displacements
Experimental Literature, Necropolitics and Decolonial Hauntology
Av Rita Sakr
Inbunden, 2027
1273 kr
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This book examines important contemporary prose works by the Iraqi-born writer Ḥasan Balāsim, the Palestinian writer ‘Āṭif Abu Sayf, the Egyptian writer Basmah ‘Abd al-‘Azīz and the Syrian writer Samar Yazbek. It theorises various forms that expand Arabic literary history in relation to magical …
