Studies on Performing Arts & Literature of the Islamicate World – serie
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14 produkter
Storytelling in Chefchaouen Northern Morocco
An Annotated Study of Oral Performance with Transliterations and Translations
Inbunden, 2014
3143 kr
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Storytelling in Chefchaouen Northern Morocco includes two sets of tales told by two different storytellers with an annotated study of the oral performance, transliterations and translations. The purpose is to preserve a part of the region’s oral tradition of storytelling in the vernacular language …
Le Corps dans le roman des écrivaines syriennes contemporaines
Dire, écrire, inscrire la différence
Inbunden, 2016
2272 kr
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Le Corps dans le roman des écrivaines syriennes contemporaines, de Martina Censi, explore les représentations du corps dans un corpus de romans en arabe publiés (entre 2004 et 2011) par six écrivaines syriennes. L’auteure conjugue l'analyse du texte littéraire avec la critique féministe et les …
Encoded Cirebon Mask
Materiality, Flow, and Meaning along Java's Islamic Northwest Coast
Inbunden, 2016
2309 kr
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In The Encoded Cirebon Mask: Materiality, Flow, and Meaning along Java’s Islamic Northwest Coast, Laurie Margot Ross situates masks and masked dancing in the Cirebon region of Java (Indonesia) as an original expression of Islam. This is a different view from that of many scholars, who argue that …
Sung Home. Narrative, Morality, and the Kurdish Nation
Inbunden, 2016
3452 kr
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The Sung Home tells the story of Kurdish singer-poets (dengbêjs) in Kurdistan in Turkey, who are specialized in the recital singing of historical songs. After a long period of silence, they returned to public life in the 2000s and are presented as guardians of history and culture. Their lyrics, …
Seen and Unseen: Visual Cultures of Imperialism
Inbunden, 2017
1762 kr
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Seen and Unseen teases out and explores how visual mediums construct visual cultures that often create limited perspectives of certain issues and groups. This volume focuses in particular on the representation of Islam and Muslims. It deals with fixed and stereotypical visual representations and …
Poet of Jordan: The Political Poetry of Muhammad Fanatil Al-Hajaya
Inbunden, 2018
2131 kr
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In Poet of Jordan, William Tamplin presents two decades’ worth of the political poetry of Muhammad Fanatil al-Hajaya, a Bedouin poet from Jordan and a public figure whose voice channels a popular strain of popular Arab political thought. Tamplin’s footnoted translations are supplemented with a …
Modern and Contemporary Political Theater from the Levant
A Critical Anthology
Inbunden, 2018
2415 kr
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In Modern and Contemporary Political Theater from the Levant, A Critical Anthology, Robert Myers and Nada Saab provide a sense of the variety and complexity of political theater produced in and around the Levant from the 1960s to the present within a context of wider discussions about political …
Thousand and One Nights: Sources and Transformations in Literature, Art, and Science
Av Ibrahim Akel
Inbunden, 2020
2286 kr
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The Thousand and One Nights does not fall into a scholarly canon or into the category of popular literature. It takes its place within a middle literature that circulated widely in medieval times. The Nights gradually entered world literature through the great novels of the day and through music, …
Robert Lachmann’s Letters to Henry George Farmer (from 1923 to 1938)
Inbunden, 2020
2008 kr
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Robert Lachmann’s letters to Henry George Farmer, from the years 1923-38, provide insightful glimpses into his life and his progressive research projects. From an historical perspective, they offer critical data concerning the development of comparative musicology as it evolved in Germany during …
Cultural Pearls from the East: In Memory of Shmuel Moreh (1932-2017)
Av Meir Hatina
Inbunden, 2021
1958 kr
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Cultural Pearls from the East offers fascinating insights into Muslim-Arab culture and the evolution of its intellectual nature and literary texts from early Islam to modern times. The textual analysis of largely unexplored literary works and chronicles that epitomize this volume highlight the …
Shāh Esmā‘il and his Three Wives
A Persian-Turkish Tale as Performed by the Bards of Khorasan
Av Ameneh Youssefzadeh, Stephen Blum
Inbunden, 2021
1774 kr
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This book is the first full text and translation of a prosimetric tale from the rich repertoire of Central and West Asian bards to be published with ready access to recordings of both the prose narration and the sung verse. In Iranian Khorasan, bards known as bakhshi present tales that in other …
Words Like Daggers: The Political Poetry of the Negev Bedouin
Av Kobi Peled
Inbunden, 2022
1887 kr
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The book explores the political poetry recited by the Negev Bedouin from the late Ottoman period to the late twentieth century. By closely reading fifty poems Peled sheds light on the poets’ sentiments and worldviews. To get to the bottom of the issues that inspired their poetry, he weaves an …
Treatise on Qanun Musical Ornaments
Risāla fī Zakhārif al-Qānūn al-Mūsīqiyya
Inbunden, 2022
1649 kr
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The present volume is a double edition in English and Arabic about the art of ornamentations in the performance of the Arabic qanun (psaltery), and a historical document spanning more than one hundred years. It is based on George Sawa's experience as an artist and performer, as well as the …
Karbala in the Taʿziyeh Episode, Shiʿi Devotional Drama in Iran
Inbunden, 2024
1958 kr
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“I am not Shemr, this is not a dagger, nor is this Karbala,” recites the arch-antagonist as a taʿziyeh performance begins. Verisimilitude is not the endeavour; this is a devotional offering that stirs lament for the the Shiʿi martyrs by representing events crucial to sacred history. But what does …
