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Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur and Arabic Writerly Culture
A Ninth Century Bookman in Baghdad
AvShawkat M. Toorawa
Inbunden, Engelska, 2005
2 850 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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 of learned and literary culture; modes of transmission of learning; nature and types of literary production; nature of scholarly and professional occupations and alliances; and ranges of meanings of certain key concepts, such as plagiarism. In order to better understand these, attention is focused on a central but understudied figure, Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur (d. 280 to 893), a writer, schoolmaster, scholar and copyist, member of important literary circles, and a significant anthologist and chronicler. This book will appeal to anyone interested in Arabic literary culture and history, and those with an interest in books, writing, authorship and patronage.
Novel and the Rural Imaginary in Egypt, 1880-1985
AvSamah Selim
Inbunden, Engelska, 2004
2 850 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
The book locates questions of languages, genre, textuality and canonicity within a historical and theoretical framework that foregrounds the emergence of modern nationalism in Egypt. The ways in which the cultural discourses produced by twentieth century Egyptian nationalism created a space for both a hegemonic and counter-hegemonic politics of language, class and place that inscribed a bifurcated narrative and social geography, are examined. The book argues that the rupture between the village and the city contained in the Egyptian nationalism discourse is reproduced as a narrative dislocation that has continued to characterize and shape the Egyptian novel in general and the village novel in particular. Reading the village novel in Egypt as a dynamic intertext that constructs modernity in a local historical and political context rather than rehearsing a simple repetition of dominant European literary-critical paradigms, this book offers a new approach to the construction of modern Arabic literary history as well as to theoretical questions related to the structure and role of the novel as a worldly narrative genre.
Medieval Andalusian Courtly Culture in the Mediterranean
Hadîth Bayâd wa Riyâd
AvCynthia Robinson
Inbunden, Engelska, 2006
2 443 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Medieval Andalusian Courtly Culture discusses the unicum manuscript of the Hadîth Bayâd wa Riyâd, the only illustrated manuscript known to have survived for more than eight centuries of Muslim and Arabic-speaking presence in present-day Spain. The manuscript is of paramount importance as it contains the only known surviving version, both in terms of text and of image, of the love story of Bayâd wa Riyâd. This study will place this manuscript within the context of late medieval Mediterranean courtly culture, offering:an annotated translation into English of the entire text reproductions of its images an analysis of both text and images in a series of progressively broader contexts including that of al-Andalus(Arabic-speaking); of "reconquista" Iberia; and the larger Mediterranean world. Cynthia Robinson broadens understanding of the Mediterranean region during the Middle Ages, making this text an invaluable resource for scholars with interests in Medieval Spain, art and Mediterranean courtly culture.
Religious Perspectives in Modern Muslim and Jewish Literatures
AvGlenda Abramson,Hilary Kilpatrick
Inbunden, Engelska, 2005
2 850 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This collection brings together discussions of the way in which Muslim and Jewish beliefs and practices are represented in modern literary texts of poetry, fiction and drama. The chapters collected here consider elements of the expression of Judaism and Islam in modern literature. Key topics such as religious ideas and teachings, aspects of mysticism, the tenets of religion, uses made of sacred texts, religion and popular culture and reflections of religious controversies are covered. While there is an embodied comparative element to the chapters, the essays are not confined by comparisons and cover a wide range of the literary expression of religious issues.
Literature, Journalism and the Avant-Garde
Intersection in Egypt
AvElisabeth Kendall
Inbunden, Engelska, 2006
1 726 kr
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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 dissident, journals that were the real hotbed of innovative literary activity and which made a lasting impact by propelling Arabic literature into the post-modern era.
Writing and Representation in Medieval Islam
Muslim Horizons
AvJulia Bray
Inbunden, Engelska, 2006
2 478 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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 ‘formative period of Islamic thought’, the book examines historiography, literary prose and Arabic prose genres which do not fall neatly into either category.Filling a gap in the literature by providing detailed discussions of both primary texts and recent scholarship, Writing and Representation in Medieval Islam will be welcomed by students and scholars of classical Arabic literature, Islamic history and medieval history.
Oral and the Written in Early Islam
AvGregor Schoeler,Uwe Vagelpohlm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2006
2 850 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Made up of a number of seminal articles that are translated for the first time in English, this prestigious book from Gregor Schoeler gives a reasoned, informed and comprehensive overflow of how the written and the spoken interacted, diverged and received cultural articulation among the Muslim societies of the first two centuries of the Hijra.
Nationalism, Islam and World Literature
Sites of Confluence in the Writings of Mahmud Al-Mas’adi
AvMohamed-Salah Omri
Inbunden, Engelska, 2006
2 850 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
The writer and politician Mahmud al-Mis’adi is a figure of prime importance in the development of North African literature and cultural politics since the last war. This fascinating book covers both his essays and fiction, written between the 1930s and 1990s, which challenge the boundaries between the sacred and irreligious in the Islamic world. In addition, it also examines Arabic literature and its relationship to the West.
Thousand and One Nights
Space, Travel and Transformation
AvRichard van Leeuwen
Inbunden, Engelska, 2006
2 850 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This volume discusses The Thousand and One Nights' themes of space and travel showing how they are used not only as a setting in which the story unfolds, but also as the dynamic force which propels the heroes and the story to the final dénouement. These events often symbolize a process of transformation, in which the hero has to search for his destined role or strive to attain the object of his desire. In this way, themes of travel are the narrative backbone of stories of various genres including love, religion, magic and adventure.This book not only gives a fresh approach to many stories of the collection, but also proposes new insights in the nature of The Thousand and one Nights as a self-reflexive narrative and is essential reading for scholars of Arabic literature.
Contemporary Arab Fiction
Innovation from Rama to Yalu
AvFabio Caiani
Inbunden, Engelska, 2007
2 850 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This book introduces Western readers to some of the most significant novels written in Arabic since 1979. Despite their contribution to the development of contemporary Arabic fiction, these authors remain largely unknown to non-Arab readers.Fabio Caiani examines the work of the Moroccan Muhammad Barrada; the Egyptian Idwar al-Kharrat; the Lebanese Ilyas Khuri and the Iraqi Fu’ad al-Takarli. Their most significant novels were published between 1979 and 2002, a period during which their work reached literary maturity. They all represent pioneering literary trends compared to the novelistic form canonized in the influential early works of Naguib Mahfouz. Until now, some of their most innovative works have not been analyzed in detail – this book fills that gap. Relying on literary theory and referring to comparative examples from other literatures, this study places its findings within a wider framework, defining what is meant by innovation in the Arabic novel, and the particular socio-political context in which it appears. This book will significantly enrich the existing critical literature in English on the contemporary Arabic novel.
Literary Modernity Between the Middle East and Europe
Textual Transactions in 19th Century Arabic, English and Persian Literatures
AvKamran Rastegar
Inbunden, Engelska, 2007
2 850 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Providing a broad ranging and unique comparative study of the development of English, Persian and Arabic literature, this book looks at their interrelations with specific reference to modernity, nationalism and social value. It gives a strong theoretical underpinning to the development of Middle Eastern literature in the modern period.
Islamic Culture Through Jewish Eyes
Al-Andalus from the Tenth to Twelfth Century
AvEsperanza Alfonso
Inbunden, Engelska, 2007
2 552 kr
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Islamic Culture Through Jewish Eyes analyzes the attitude towards Muslims, Islam, and Islamic culture as presented in sources written by Jewish authors in the Iberian Peninsula between the tenth and the twelfth centuries. By bringing the Jewish attitude towards the "other" into sharper focus, this book sets out to explore a largely overlooked and neglected question – the shifting ways in which Jewish authors constructed communal identity of Muslims and Islamic culture, and how these views changed overtime.The book’s methodological sophistication and wide range of sources make it a valuable resource for scholars and researchers of comparative literature and cultural studies.
Sheherazade Through the Looking Glass
The Metamorphosis of the 'Thousand and One Nights'
AvEva Sallis
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
851 kr
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The Thousand and One Nights was reborn into an alien environment in 1704, its signs being received in a radically different way from their original meanings. Works of literature change as people and cultures who read them change. This study explores the Nights with reference to this view of literature.
Palestinian Novel
A Communication Study
AvIbrahim Taha
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
851 kr
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Examines the complex relationship between the reality of the Palestinian minority in Israel and their literature through six novels, according to a literary communication model which enables Dr Taha to examine how authors who belong to this minority relate to their readers.
Of Dishes and Discourse
Classical Arabic Literary Representations of Food
AvGeert Jan van Gelder
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
1 032 kr
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Considers how Arab and Islamic culinary culture may be represented in literary forms. Scholars of the medieval Islamic period are keenly aware of the importance of food and wine as themes in literature. Van Gelder's witty and subtle approach teases the most out of texts as well as enabling the reader to enjoy a panorama of medieval Arabo-Islamic culture from a most unexpected, yet immediately appreciable, perspective.
Medieval Arabic Praise Poetry
Ibn Al-Rumi and the Patron's Redemption
AvBeatrice Gruendler
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
1 032 kr
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This book gives an insight into panegyrics, a genre central to understanding medieval Near Eastern Society. Poets in this multi-ethnic society would address the majority of their verse to rulers, generals, officials, and the urban upper classes, its tone ranging from celebration to reprimand and even to threat.
Making the Great Book of Songs
Compilation and the Author's Craft in Abû I-Faraj al-Isbahânî's Kitâb al-aghânî
AvHilary Kilpatrick
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
1 032 kr
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This is the first systematic literary study of one of the masterpieces of classical Arabic literature, the fourth/tenth century Kitâb al-aghânî (The Book of Songs) by Abû I-Faraj al-Isbahânî. Until now the twenty-four volume Book of Songs has been regarded as a rather chaotic but priceless mine of information about classical Arabic music, literature and culture. This book approaches it as a work of literature in its own right, with its own internal logic and coherence. The study also consistently integrates the musical component into the analysis and proposes a reading of the work in which individual anecdotes and poems are related to the wider context, enhancing their meaning.
Novel and the Rural Imaginary in Egypt, 1880-1985
AvSamah Selim
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
1 032 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
The book locates questions of languages, genre, textuality and canonicity within a historical and theoretical framework that foregrounds the emergence of modern nationalism in Egypt. The ways in which the cultural discourses produced by twentieth century Egyptian nationalism created a space for both a hegemonic and counter-hegemonic politics of language, class and place that inscribed a bifurcated narrative and social geography, are examined. The book argues that the rupture between the village and the city contained in the Egyptian nationalism discourse is reproduced as a narrative dislocation that has continued to characterize and shape the Egyptian novel in general and the village novel in particular. Reading the village novel in Egypt as a dynamic intertext that constructs modernity in a local historical and political context rather than rehearsing a simple repetition of dominant European literary-critical paradigms, this book offers a new approach to the construction of modern Arabic literary history as well as to theoretical questions related to the structure and role of the novel as a worldly narrative genre.
Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur and Arabic Writerly Culture
A Ninth Century Bookman in Baghdad
AvShawkat M. Toorawa
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
1 032 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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 of learned and literary culture; modes of transmission of learning; nature and types of literary production; nature of scholarly and professional occupations and alliances; and ranges of meanings of certain key concepts, such as plagiarism. In order to better understand these, attention is focused on a central but understudied figure, Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur (d. 280 to 893), a writer, schoolmaster, scholar and copyist, member of important literary circles, and a significant anthologist and chronicler. This book will appeal to anyone interested in Arabic literary culture and history, and those with an interest in books, writing, authorship and patronage.
Religious Perspectives in Modern Muslim and Jewish Literatures
AvGlenda Abramson,Hilary Kilpatrick
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
851 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This collection brings together discussions of the way in which Muslim and Jewish beliefs and practices are represented in modern literary texts of poetry, fiction and drama. The chapters collected here consider elements of the expression of Judaism and Islam in modern literature. Key topics such as religious ideas and teachings, aspects of mysticism, the tenets of religion, uses made of sacred texts, religion and popular culture and reflections of religious controversies are covered. While there is an embodied comparative element to the chapters, the essays are not confined by comparisons and cover a wide range of the literary expression of religious issues.
Arabic Poetry
Trajectories of Modernity and Tradition
AvMuhsin J. al-Musawi
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
851 kr
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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 and change. It studies the poetic in its complexity, relating to issues of selfhood, individuality, community, religion, ideology, nation, class and gender.Al-Musawi also explores in context issues that have been cursorily noticed or neglected, like Shi’i poetics, Sufism, women’s poetry, and expressions of exilic consciousness. Arabic Poetry employs current literary theory and provides comprehensive coverage of modern and post-modern poetry from the 1950s onwards, making it essential reading for those with interests in Arabic culture and literature and Middle East studies.
Medieval Andalusian Courtly Culture in the Mediterranean
Hadîth Bayâd wa Riyâd
AvCynthia Robinson
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
885 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Medieval Andalusian Courtly Culture discusses the unicum manuscript of the Hadîth Bayâd wa Riyâd, the only illustrated manuscript known to have survived for more than eight centuries of Muslim and Arabic-speaking presence in present-day Spain. The manuscript is of paramount importance as it contains the only known surviving version, both in terms of text and of image, of the love story of Bayâd wa Riyâd. This study will place this manuscript within the context of late medieval Mediterranean courtly culture, offering:an annotated translation into English of the entire text reproductions of its images an analysis of both text and images in a series of progressively broader contexts including that of al-Andalus(Arabic-speaking); of "reconquista" Iberia; and the larger Mediterranean world. Cynthia Robinson broadens understanding of the Mediterranean region during the Middle Ages, making this text an invaluable resource for scholars with interests in Medieval Spain, art and Mediterranean courtly culture.
Writing and Representation in Medieval Islam
Muslim Horizons
AvJulia Bray
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
740 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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 ‘formative period of Islamic thought’, the book examines historiography, literary prose and Arabic prose genres which do not fall neatly into either category.Filling a gap in the literature by providing detailed discussions of both primary texts and recent scholarship, Writing and Representation in Medieval Islam will be welcomed by students and scholars of classical Arabic literature, Islamic history and medieval history.
Nationalism, Islam and World Literature
Sites of Confluence in the Writings of Mahmud Al-Mas’adi
AvMohamed-Salah Omri
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
1 032 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
The writer and politician Mahmud al-Mis’adi is a figure of prime importance in the development of North African literature and cultural politics since the last war. This fascinating book covers both his essays and fiction, written between the 1930s and 1990s, which challenge the boundaries between the sacred and irreligious in the Islamic world. In addition, it also examines Arabic literature and its relationship to the West.
Oral and the Written in Early Islam
AvGregor Schoeler,Uwe Vagelpohlm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
1 032 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Made up of a number of seminal articles that are translated for the first time in English, this prestigious book from Gregor Schoeler gives a reasoned, informed and comprehensive overflow of how the written and the spoken interacted, diverged and received cultural articulation among the Muslim societies of the first two centuries of the Hijra.
Literature, Journalism and the Avant-Garde
Intersection in Egypt
AvElisabeth Kendall
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
570 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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 dissident, journals that were the real hotbed of innovative literary activity and which made a lasting impact by propelling Arabic literature into the post-modern era.
Thousand and One Nights
Space, Travel and Transformation
AvRichard van Leeuwen
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
851 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This volume discusses The Thousand and One Nights' themes of space and travel showing how they are used not only as a setting in which the story unfolds, but also as the dynamic force which propels the heroes and the story to the final dénouement. These events often symbolize a process of transformation, in which the hero has to search for his destined role or strive to attain the object of his desire. In this way, themes of travel are the narrative backbone of stories of various genres including love, religion, magic and adventure.This book not only gives a fresh approach to many stories of the collection, but also proposes new insights in the nature of The Thousand and one Nights as a self-reflexive narrative and is essential reading for scholars of Arabic literature.
Arab Culture and the Novel
Genre, Identity and Agency in Egyptian Fiction
AvMuhammad Siddiq
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
1 032 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This book explores the complex relationship between the novel and identity in modern Arab culture against a backdrop of contemporary Egypt. It uses the example of the Egyptian novel to interrogate the root causes – religious, social, political, and psychological – of the lingering identity crisis that has afflicted Arab culture for at least two centuries.
Literary Modernity Between the Middle East and Europe
Textual Transactions in 19th Century Arabic, English and Persian Literatures
AvKamran Rastegar
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
1 032 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Providing a broad ranging and unique comparative study of the development of English, Persian and Arabic literature, this book looks at their interrelations with specific reference to modernity, nationalism and social value. It gives a strong theoretical underpinning to the development of Middle Eastern literature in the modern period.
Contemporary Arab Fiction
Innovation from Rama to Yalu
AvFabio Caiani
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
851 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This book introduces Western readers to some of the most significant novels written in Arabic since 1979. Despite their contribution to the development of contemporary Arabic fiction, these authors remain largely unknown to non-Arab readers.Fabio Caiani examines the work of the Moroccan Muhammad Barrada; the Egyptian Idwar al-Kharrat; the Lebanese Ilyas Khuri and the Iraqi Fu’ad al-Takarli. Their most significant novels were published between 1979 and 2002, a period during which their work reached literary maturity. They all represent pioneering literary trends compared to the novelistic form canonized in the influential early works of Naguib Mahfouz. Until now, some of their most innovative works have not been analyzed in detail – this book fills that gap. Relying on literary theory and referring to comparative examples from other literatures, this study places its findings within a wider framework, defining what is meant by innovation in the Arabic novel, and the particular socio-political context in which it appears. This book will significantly enrich the existing critical literature in English on the contemporary Arabic novel.

Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures – serie

Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur and Arabic Writerly Culture

Novel and the Rural Imaginary in Egypt, 1880-1985

Medieval Andalusian Courtly Culture in the Mediterranean

Religious Perspectives in Modern Muslim and Jewish Literatures

Literature, Journalism and the Avant-Garde

Writing and Representation in Medieval Islam

Oral and the Written in Early Islam

Nationalism, Islam and World Literature

Thousand and One Nights

Contemporary Arab Fiction

Literary Modernity Between the Middle East and Europe

Islamic Culture Through Jewish Eyes

Sheherazade Through the Looking Glass

Palestinian Novel

Of Dishes and Discourse

Medieval Arabic Praise Poetry

Making the Great Book of Songs

Novel and the Rural Imaginary in Egypt, 1880-1985

Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur and Arabic Writerly Culture

Religious Perspectives in Modern Muslim and Jewish Literatures

Arabic Poetry

Medieval Andalusian Courtly Culture in the Mediterranean

Writing and Representation in Medieval Islam

Nationalism, Islam and World Literature

Oral and the Written in Early Islam

Literature, Journalism and the Avant-Garde

Thousand and One Nights

Arab Culture and the Novel

Literary Modernity Between the Middle East and Europe

Contemporary Arab Fiction