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New Literature and Philosophy of the Middle East
The Chaotic Imagination
AvJ. Mohaghegh
Inbunden, Engelska, 2010
628 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Mohaghegh tracks the idea of 'chaos' into the contemporary philosophical and cultural imagination of the postcolonial world, exploring its vital role in the formation of an emergent avant-garde literature in the Middle East, concentrating on the writings of the twentieth-century Iranian new wave.
Islam in the Eastern African Novel
AvE. Mirmotahari
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
1 249 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This study of the sub-Saharan African novel interprets representations of Islam as a central organising presence that generates new conceptual questions and demands new critical frameworks with which to approach categories like nationhood, race, diaspora, immigration, and Africa's multiple colonial pasts.
Urban Space in Contemporary Egyptian Literature
Portraits of Cairo
AvM. Naaman
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
628 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
An examination of how the space of the downtown served dual purposes as both a symbol of colonial influence and capital in Egypt, as well as a staging ground for the demonstrations of the Egyptian nationalist movement.
Poetics and Politics of Iran’s National Epic, the Sh?hn?meh
AvM. Omidsalar
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
628 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This book considers some of the Western interpretations of The Shahnameh - Iran's national epic, and argues that these interpretations are not only methodologically flawed, but are also more revealing of Western concerns and anxieties about Iran than they are about the Shahnameh.
Literature, Gender, and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Egypt
The Life and Works of `A'isha Taymur
AvM. Hatem
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
1 249 kr
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This book examines how the process of nation-building in Egypt helped transform Egypt from an Ottoman province to an Arabic speaking national community. Through the discussion of the life and works of the prominent writer `A'isha Taymur, Hatem gives insight into how literature and the changing gender roles of women and men contributed to the definition and/or development of a sense of community.
Global Perspectives on Orhan Pamuk
Existentialism and Politics
AvM. Afridi,D. Buyze
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
628 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Explores existential and political themes in Orhan Pamuk's work and investigates the apparent contradictions in an arena where Islam and democracy are often seen as opposing and irreconcilable terms. Existential themes delve into literary nuances in Pamuk that discuss love, happiness, suffering, memory and death.
Islam, Migrancy, and Hospitality in Europe
AvM. Yegenoglu
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
1 249 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This book cuts across important debates in cultural studies, literary criticism, politics, sociology, and anthropology. Meyda Yegenoglu brings together different theoretical strands in the debates regarding immigration, from Jacques Lacan's psychoanalytic understanding of the subject formation, to Zygmunt Bauman's notion of the stranger.
Iranian Cinema and Philosophy
Shooting Truth
AvFarhang Erfani
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
580 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
In film studies, Iranian films are kept at a distance, as 'other,' different, and exotic. In reponse, this book takes these films as philosophically relevant and innovative. Each chapter of this book is devoted to analyzing a single film, and each chapter focuses on one philosopher and one particular aesthetic question.
Gender, Sex, and the City
Urdu Rekhti Poetry in India, 1780-1870
AvR. Vanita
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
628 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Explores the urban, cosmopolitan sensibilities of Urdu poetry written in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Lucknow. Ruth Vanita analyzes Rekhti, a type of Urdu poetry distinguished by a female speaker and a focus on women's lives, and shows how it becamea catalyst for the transformation of the ghazal.
Egyptian Colloquial Poetry in the Modern Arabic Canon
New Readings of Shi‘r al-‘?mmiyya
AvN. Radwan
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
628 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Noha Radwan offers the first book-length study of the emergence, context, and development of modern Egyptian colloquial poetry, recently used as a vehicle for communications in the revolutionary youth movement in Egypt on January 25th 2011, and situates it among modernist Arab poetry.
Catastrophe and Exile in the Modern Palestinian Imagination
Telling Memories
AvI. Saloul
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
691 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Catastrophe and Exile in the Modern Palestinian Imagination explores the cultural memory of al-Nakba (1948 Israeli independence, or The Catastrophe as it is known in Palestine) and its significance to the modern Palestinian imagination. Ihab Saloul addresses central concepts to debates over identity such as nostalgia and trauma, notions of home and forced travel, and geopolitical continuity of loss of place. Through an integrated method of close narrative and discursive analysis of diverse literary texts, films, and personal narratives, this study offers an analytical account of the preservation of cultural optimism in the face of the ongoing catastrophe, as well as the ways in which aesthetics and politics intersect in contemporary Palestinian culture.
Urdu Literary Culture
Vernacular Modernity in the Writing of Muhammad Hasan Askari
AvM. Farooqi
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
628 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Urdu Literary Culture examines the impact of political circumstances on vernacular (Urdu) literary culture through an in-depth study of the writings of Muhammad Hasan Askari, who lived during the Partition of India.
Poetics of the Obscene in Premodern Arabic Poetry
Ibn al-?ajj?j and Sukhf
AvS. Antoon
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
628 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
The book is the first study of the 10th century Iraqi poet Ibn al-Hajjaj who popularized a new genre of obscene and scatological parody (sukhf) and is considered the most obscene poet in Arabic literature. Antoon traces the genealogy of this fascinating genre in and examines its rise by placing it in its sociopolitical context.
Authority without Territory
The Aga Khan Development Network and the Ismaili Imamate
AvDaryoush Mohammad Poor,Kenneth A. Loparom. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
1 086 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Examining the connection between the concept of authority and the transformation of the Ismaili imamate, Authority without Territory is the first study of the imamate in contemporary times with a particular focus on Aga Khan, the 49th hereditary leader of Shi?a Imami Ismaili Muslims.
Feminism and Avant-Garde Aesthetics in the Levantine Novel
Feminism, Nationalism, and the Arabic Novel
AvK. Hanna
Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
628 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Writing in response to war and national crisis, al-Samm?n, Khal?feh, Barak?t, and others introduced into the Arabic literary canon aesthetic forms capable of carrying Levantine women's experiences. By assessing their feminism in such a way, this book aims to revive a critical emphasis on aesthetics in Arab women's writing.
New Literature and Philosophy of the Middle East
The Chaotic Imagination
AvJ. Mohaghegh
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
628 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Mohaghegh tracks the idea of 'chaos' into the contemporary philosophical and cultural imagination of the postcolonial world, exploring its vital role in the formation of an emergent avant-garde literature in the Middle East, concentrating on the writings of the twentieth-century Iranian new wave.
Islam in the Eastern African Novel
AvE. Mirmotahari
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
1 249 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This study of the sub-Saharan African novel interprets representations of Islam as a central organising presence that generates new conceptual questions and demands new critical frameworks with which to approach categories like nationhood, race, diaspora, immigration, and Africa's multiple colonial pasts.
Urban Space in Contemporary Egyptian Literature
Portraits of Cairo
AvM. Naaman
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
628 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
An examination of how the space of the downtown served dual purposes as both a symbol of colonial influence and capital in Egypt, as well as a staging ground for the demonstrations of the Egyptian nationalist movement.
Poetics and Politics of Iran’s National Epic, the Sh?hn?meh
AvM. Omidsalar
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
628 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This book considers some of the Western interpretations of The Shahnameh - Iran's national epic, and argues that these interpretations are not only methodologically flawed, but are also more revealing of Western concerns and anxieties about Iran than they are about the Shahnameh.
Global Perspectives on Orhan Pamuk
Existentialism and Politics
AvM. Afridi,D. Buyze
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
628 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Explores existential and political themes in Orhan Pamuk's work and investigates the apparent contradictions in an arena where Islam and democracy are often seen as opposing and irreconcilable terms. Existential themes delve into literary nuances in Pamuk that discuss love, happiness, suffering, memory and death.
Islam, Migrancy, and Hospitality in Europe
AvM. Yegenoglu
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
1 249 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This book cuts across important debates in cultural studies, literary criticism, politics, sociology, and anthropology. Meyda Yegenoglu brings together different theoretical strands in the debates regarding immigration, from Jacques Lacan's psychoanalytic understanding of the subject formation, to Zygmunt Bauman's notion of the stranger.
Iranian Cinema and Philosophy
Shooting Truth
AvFarhang Erfani
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
547 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
In film studies, Iranian films are kept at a distance, as 'other,' different, and exotic. In reponse, this book takes these films as philosophically relevant and innovative. Each chapter of this book is devoted to analyzing a single film, and each chapter focuses on one philosopher and one particular aesthetic question.
Gender, Sex, and the City
Urdu Rekhti Poetry in India, 1780-1870
AvR. Vanita
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
628 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Explores the urban, cosmopolitan sensibilities of Urdu poetry written in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Lucknow. Ruth Vanita analyzes Rekhti, a type of Urdu poetry distinguished by a female speaker and a focus on women's lives, and shows how it becamea catalyst for the transformation of the ghazal.
Egyptian Colloquial Poetry in the Modern Arabic Canon
New Readings of Shi‘r al-‘?mmiyya
AvN. Radwan
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
628 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Noha Radwan offers the first book-length study of the emergence, context, and development of modern Egyptian colloquial poetry, recently used as a vehicle for communications in the revolutionary youth movement in Egypt on January 25th 2011, and situates it among modernist Arab poetry.
Catastrophe and Exile in the Modern Palestinian Imagination
Telling Memories
AvI. Saloul
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
691 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Catastrophe and Exile in the Modern Palestinian Imagination explores the cultural memory of al-Nakba (1948 Israeli independence, or The Catastrophe as it is known in Palestine) and its significance to the modern Palestinian imagination. Ihab Saloul addresses central concepts to debates over identity such as nostalgia and trauma, notions of home and forced travel, and geopolitical continuity of loss of place. Through an integrated method of close narrative and discursive analysis of diverse literary texts, films, and personal narratives, this study offers an analytical account of the preservation of cultural optimism in the face of the ongoing catastrophe, as well as the ways in which aesthetics and politics intersect in contemporary Palestinian culture.
Urdu Literary Culture
Vernacular Modernity in the Writing of Muhammad Hasan Askari
AvM. Farooqi
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
628 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Urdu Literary Culture examines the impact of political circumstances on vernacular (Urdu) literary culture through an in-depth study of the writings of Muhammad Hasan Askari, who lived during the Partition of India.
Poetics of the Obscene in Premodern Arabic Poetry
Ibn al-?ajj?j and Sukhf
AvS. Antoon
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
628 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
The book is the first study of the 10th century Iraqi poet Ibn al-Hajjaj who popularized a new genre of obscene and scatological parody (sukhf) and is considered the most obscene poet in Arabic literature. Antoon traces the genealogy of this fascinating genre in and examines its rise by placing it in its sociopolitical context.
Authority without Territory
The Aga Khan Development Network and the Ismaili Imamate
AvDaryoush Mohammad Poor,Kenneth A. Loparo
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
1 086 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Examining the connection between the concept of authority and the transformation of the Ismaili imamate, Authority without Territory is the first study of the imamate in contemporary times with a particular focus on Aga Khan, the 49th hereditary leader of Shi?a Imami Ismaili Muslims.
Feminism and Avant-Garde Aesthetics in the Levantine Novel
Feminism, Nationalism, and the Arabic Novel
AvK. Hanna
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
628 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Writing in response to war and national crisis, al-Samm?n, Khal?feh, Barak?t, and others introduced into the Arabic literary canon aesthetic forms capable of carrying Levantine women's experiences. By assessing their feminism in such a way, this book aims to revive a critical emphasis on aesthetics in Arab women's writing.
Qur’an and the Aesthetics of Premodern Arabic Prose
AvSarah R. bin Tyeer
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
504 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This book approaches the Qur’an as a primary source for delineating the definition of ugliness, and by extension beauty, and in turn establishing meaningful tools and terms for literary criticism within the discipline of classical Arabic literature (adab). Focusing on the aesthetic dimension of the Qur’an, this methodology opens up new horizons for reading adab by reading the tradition from within the tradition and thereby examining issues of “decontextualisation” and the “untranslatable.” This approach, in turn, invites Comparatists, as well as Arabists, to consider other means and perspectives for approaching adab besides the Bakhtinian carnival. Applying this critical strategy to literary works as diverse as One Thousand and One Nights and The Epistle of Forgiveness, Sarah R. bin Tyeer aims to prove two major points: how Bakhtin’s aesthetics is anachronistic and therefore theoretically inappropriate when applied to certain literary works and how ultimately this literary methodology is sometimes used as a proxy for ungrounded and, sometimes, unfair arguments by other scholars.Foreword by Angelika Neuwirth, Professor of Quranic studies, Freie University, Berlin, Germany.

Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World – serie

New Literature and Philosophy of the Middle East

Islam in the Eastern African Novel

Urban Space in Contemporary Egyptian Literature

Poetics and Politics of Iran’s National Epic, the Sh?hn?meh

Literature, Gender, and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Egypt

Global Perspectives on Orhan Pamuk

Islam, Migrancy, and Hospitality in Europe

Iranian Cinema and Philosophy

Gender, Sex, and the City

Egyptian Colloquial Poetry in the Modern Arabic Canon

Catastrophe and Exile in the Modern Palestinian Imagination

Urdu Literary Culture

Poetics of the Obscene in Premodern Arabic Poetry

Authority without Territory

Feminism and Avant-Garde Aesthetics in the Levantine Novel

New Literature and Philosophy of the Middle East

Islam in the Eastern African Novel

Urban Space in Contemporary Egyptian Literature

Poetics and Politics of Iran’s National Epic, the Sh?hn?meh

Global Perspectives on Orhan Pamuk

Islam, Migrancy, and Hospitality in Europe

Iranian Cinema and Philosophy

Gender, Sex, and the City

Egyptian Colloquial Poetry in the Modern Arabic Canon

Catastrophe and Exile in the Modern Palestinian Imagination

Urdu Literary Culture

Poetics of the Obscene in Premodern Arabic Poetry

Authority without Territory

Feminism and Avant-Garde Aesthetics in the Levantine Novel

Qur’an and the Aesthetics of Premodern Arabic Prose