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  • - Innovation from Rama to Yalu
    af UK) Caiani & Fabio (University of St Andrews
    588,95 - 1.826,95 kr.

    Relying on literary theory and referring to comparative examples from other literatures, this study places its findings within a framework, defining what is meant by innovation in the Arabic novel, and the particular socio-political context in which it appears.

  • - Space, Travel and Transformation
    af the Netherlands) van Leeuwen & Richard (University of Amsterdam
    585,95 - 1.823,95 kr.

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    1.836,95 kr.

    Brings together discussions of the way in which Muslim and Jewish beliefs and practices are represented in literary texts of poetry, fiction and drama. The chapters in this book consider elements of the expression of Judaism and Islam in literature. It covers topics such as religious ideas and teachings, aspects of mysticism, and more.

  • af Samah Selim
    693,95 - 1.733,95 kr.

  • - Genre, Identity and Agency in Egyptian Fiction
    af Berkeley, USA) Siddiq & Muhammad (University of California
    699,95 - 1.830,95 kr.

  • - The Metamorphosis of the 'Thousand and One Nights'
    af Eva Sallis
    585,95 - 2.290,95 kr.

    'The Thousand and One Nights' was reborn into an alien environment in 1704, its signs being received in a different way from their original meanings. Works of literature change as people and cultures who read them change.

  • - Ibn Al-Rumi and the Patron's Redemption
    af Beatrice Gruendler
    702,95 - 1.745,95 kr.

    This book gives an insight into panegyrics (madih), a genre central to understanding medieval Near Eastern Society. It has until now largely escaped scholarly attention.

  • - A Ninth Century Bookman in Baghdad
    af Shawkat M. Toorawa
    696,95 - 1.828,95 kr.

    Evaluates the literary history and landscape of third/ninth century Baghdad by demonstrating and emphasising the significance of the important transition from a predominantly oral-aural culture to an increasingly literate and writerly one.

  • - Hadith Bayad wa Riyad
    af Cynthia Robinson
    696,95 - 1.829,95 kr.

    Offers an annotated English translation of the unicum manuscript of the "Hadith Bayad wa Riyad", the only illustrated manuscript known to have survived from more than eight centuries of Muslim and Arabic-speaking presence in Spain.

  • - A Communication Study
    af Ibrahim Taha
    595,95 - 1.731,95 kr.

    Examines the complex relationship between the reality of the Palestinian minority in Israel and their literature.

  • - Classical Arabic Literary Representations of Food
    af Geert Jan van Gelder
    690,95 - 1.461,95 kr.

  • af Uwe Vagelpohl, UK) Montgomery, Switzerland) Schoeler, mfl.
    696,95 - 2.206,95 kr.

    Made up of a number of articles translated in English, this book gives a 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.

  • - Textual Transactions in 19th Century Arabic, English and Persian Literatures
    af UK) Rastegar & Kamran (University of Edinburgh
    691,95 - 2.108,95 kr.

    A study for the development of English, Persian and Arabic literature and their interrelations with specific reference to modernity, nationalism and social value.

  • - Al-Andalus from the Tenth to Twelfth Century
    af Spain) Alfonso & Esperanza (Universidad Complutense de Madrid
    590,95 - 2.115,95 kr.

    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. This book explores the shifting ways in which Jewish authors constructed communal identity of Muslims and Islamic culture, and how these views changed overtime.

  • - Muslim Horizons
     
    2.115,95 kr.

    With contributors 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.

  • - Intersection in Egypt
    af UK) Kendall & Elisabeth (University of Edinburgh
    419,95 - 1.221,95 kr.

    Explores the role of journalism in Egypt in effecting and promoting the development of modern Arabic literature since its inception in the mid-nineteenth century.

  • - Compilation and the Author's Craft in Abu I-Faraj al-Isbahani's Kitab al-aghani
    af Hilary Kilpatrick
    711,95 - 1.763,95 kr.

    This is the first systematic literary study of one of the masterpieces of classical Arabic literature, the 4/10th century Kitab al-aghani (The Book of Songs) by Abu I-Faraj al-Isbahani.

  • - The Fairouz and Rahbani Nation
    af Christopher Stone
    591,95 - 2.023,95 kr.

  • - Trajectories of Modernity and Tradition
    af Muhsin J. al-Musawi
    604,95 - 1.855,95 kr.

    Tackles issues of modernity and tradition in Arabic poetry as manifested in poetic texts and criticism by poets as participants in transformation and change. This text studies the poetic in its complexity, relating to issues of: selfhood, individuality, community, religion, ideology, nation, class, and gender.

  • - Literature, culture, and empire
    af Deborah A. Starr
    667,95 - 1.922,95 kr.

    Examines the link between cosmopolitanism in Egypt, from the nineteenth century through to the mid-twentieth century, and colonialism. Taking a theoretical, literary and historical approach, this book argues that the notion of the cosmopolitan is inseparable from, and indebted to, its foundation in empire.