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Author : Michael A. Sells
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780819511584
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)
Download or read book Desert Tracings written by Michael A. Sells and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 1989-05 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A skillful translation of six classical odes of pre-Islamic Arabia.
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Publisher : Wesleyan
ISBN 13 : 9780819521576
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)
Download or read book Desert Tracings written by and published by Wesleyan. This book was released on 1989 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A skillful translation of six classical odes of pre-Islamic Arabia.
Author : Marlé Hammond
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 9789774161025
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)
Download or read book Transforming Loss Into Beauty written by Marlé Hammond and published by American Univ in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to this wide-ranging work of scholarship and analysis include mentors, colleagues, friends, and students of the late Magda al-Nowaihi, an outstanding scholar of Middle East studies whose diverse interests and energy inspired numerous colleagues. The book's first part is devoted to Arabic elegy, the subject of an unfinished work by al-Nowaihi from which this volume takes its title. Included here is a previously unpublished lecture on elegy delivered by al- Nowaihi herself. Other contributors examine this poetic form in both classical and modern contexts, from a number of angles, including the partial feminization of the genre, making this volume perhaps the most comprehensive resource on the Arabic elegy available in English. The book's second half features essays relating to al-Nowaihi's other research interests, especially the modern Arabic novel and its transgressive and marginalized status as literature. It deals with authors as varied as Tawfiq al-Hakim, Latifa al-Zayyat, Bensalem Himmich, and Sonallah Ibrahim. Broad in its scope and rigorous in its scholarship, this volume makes a fitting tribute to an inspiring scholar. Contributors: Roger Allen, Dina Amin, Michael Beard, Jonathan P. Decter, Alexander E. Elinson, Marlé Hammond, András Hámori, Mervat Hatem, Wolfhart Heinrichs, Richard Jacquemond, Lital Levy, Mara Naaman, Magda al-Nowaihi, Dana Sajdi, and Christopher Stone.
Author : Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351942557
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)
Download or read book Early Islamic Poetry and Poetics written by Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together a set of key studies on classical Arabic poetry (ca. 500-1000 C.E.), published over the last thirty-five years; the individual articles each deal with a different approach, period, genre, or theme. The major focus is on new interpretations of the form and function of the pre-eminent classical poetic genre, the polythematic qasida, or Arabic ode, particularly explorations of its ritual, ceremonial and performance dimensions. Other articles present the typology and genre characteristics of the short monothematic forms, especially the lyrical ghazal and the wine-poem. After thus setting out the full poetic genres and their structures, the volume turns in the remaining studies to the philological, rhetorical, stylistic and motival elements of classical Arabic poetry, in their etymological, symbolic, historical and comparatist dimensions. Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych's Introduction places the articles within the context of the major critical and methodological trajectories of the field and in doing so demonstrates the increasing integration of Arabic literary studies into contemporary humanistic scholarship. The Selected Bibliography complements the Introduction and the Articles to offer the reader a full overview of the past generation of Western literary and critical scholarship on classical Arabic poetry.
Author : Michael Anthony Sells
Publisher : Paulist Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809136193
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)
Download or read book Early Islamic Mysticism written by Michael Anthony Sells and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume makes available and accessible the writings of the crucial early period of Islamic mysticism during which Sufism developed as one of the world's major mystical traditions. The texts are accompanied by commentary on their historical, literary and philosophical context.
Author : Gabriel Levin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226923673
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Dune's Twisted Edge written by Gabriel Levin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of previously published essays.
Author : Daniel W. Brown
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118953479
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)
Download or read book A New Introduction to Islam written by Daniel W. Brown and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-02-16 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the origins, key features, and legacy of the Islamic tradition, the third edition of A New Introduction to Islam includes new material on Islam in the 21st century and discussions of the impact of historical ideas, literature, and movements on contemporary trends. Includes updated and rewritten chapters on the Qur’an and hadith literature that covers important new academic research Compares the practice of Islam in different Islamic countries, as well as acknowledging the differences within Islam as practiced in Europe Features study questions for each chapter and more illustrative material, charts, and excerpts from primary sources
Author : Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801480461
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Mute Immortals Speak written by Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mute Immortals Speak will be important for students and scholars in the fields of Middle Eastern literatures, Islamic studies, folklore, oral literature...
Author : Michael Ezekiel Gasper
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 080476980X
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Power of Representation written by Michael Ezekiel Gasper and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-06 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Power of Representation traces the emergence of modern Egyptian national identity from the mid-1870s through the 1910s. During this period, a new class of Egyptian urban intellectuals—teachers, lawyers, engineers, clerks, accountants, and journalists—came into prominence. Adapting modern ideas of individual moral autonomy and universal citizenship, this group reconfigured religiously informed notions of the self and created a national sense of "Egyptian-ness" drawn from ideas about Egypt's large peasant population. The book breaks new ground by calling into question the notion, common in historiography of the modern Middle East and the Muslim world in general, that in the nineteenth century "secular" aptitudes and areas of competency were somehow separate from "religious" ones. Instead, by tying the burgeoning Islamic modernist movement to the process of identity formation and its attendant political questions Michael Gasper shows how religion became integral to modern Egyptian political, social, and cultural life.
Author : Li Guo
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004218807
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Performing Arts in Medieval Islam written by Li Guo and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-12-23 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of the life and work of Ibn Dāniyāl (d. 1310), a Cairo-based eye doctor, poet, playwright, court jester, and arguably one of the most controversial cultural figures of his time. Drawing on medieval Arabic sources, many still in manuscript and some used for the first time, the author further contextualizes Ibn Dāniyāl’s work with respect to poetry production and popular culture in the Islamic Near East in the post-Mongol period. The book also presents the first full English translation of “The Phantom,” one of Ibn Dāniyāl’s three shadow plays, the only surviving pre-Ottoman Arabic theatrical texts.
