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In The Last of an Age, Sooyong Kim explores the relationship between social change and the development of an Ottoman literary canon in the course of the sixteenth century by examining the work and r……続きを見る

In Unveiling Desire, Devaleena Das and Colette Morrow show that the duality of the fallen/saved woman is as prevalent in Eastern culture as it is in the West, specifically in literature and films. U……続きを見る

The concept of home has been changing for more than a century. This change began with colonialism and the movement of people across the globe, often within a set power dynamic. Since people now move……続きを見る

In The Qur'an and Modern Arabic Literary Criticism, Mohammad Salama navigates the labyrinthine semantics that underlie this sacred text and inform contemporary scholarship. The book presents reflect……続きを見る

Un movimento di andata: che è quello degli scrittori arabi in trasferta, non solo linguistica, nel nostro Paese. E un movimento di ritorno: per una ricezione, la nostra (di occidentali con qualche s……続きを見る

Habibi and Kashua: Nationality, Language, History and the Search for Identity. The Secret Life of Saeed, the ill-ated Pessoptimist: a Palestinian who Became a Citizen of Israel (1982) and Dancing Ar……続きを見る

"Somehow I forgot to mention something else. Yes. A history-of-literature digression. It is about the Nineties. There was a flowering of poetry then. Shafie – I too – came later. The poetry of the N……続きを見る

This essay will try to shed light on the development of new speech genres in the 19th century Egyptian context as a result of the birth of a new reading public. Thus, it will address Ṣannū ̒ and N……続きを見る

Un'analisi attenta su uno dei più interessanti fenomeni della letteratura tunisina. Viviana Isernia ha sempre avuto una passione per la lingua e la cultura araba. Ha conseguito un corso di diploma u……続きを見る

IL DANTE TRANSTEMPORALE Libro digitale di assoluta originalità (o quasi) per l'eclettico Pierluigi Casalino, intellettuale geopolitico e a modo suo diversamente futuribile minimale, capace in lingua……続きを見る

Hegel's philosophy has been of fundamental importance for the development of contemporary thought and for the very representation of Western modernity. This book investigates Hegel’s influence in th……続きを見る

Can a reality lived in Arabic be expressed in French? Can a French-language literary work speak Arabic? In Native Tongue, Stranger Talk Hartman shows how Lebanese women authors use spoken Arabic to ……続きを見る

At the heart of this volume is the translation of a fourteenth-century Turkish version of the Joseph story, better known to Western readers from the version in Genesis, first book of the Hebrew Bibl……続きを見る

During the 2000's, online literature in Arabic language was popular among a larger readership. Writings on subjects dealing with politics, globalization, and social matters gained are well-received.……続きを見る

This book examines the distinction between literary expatriation and exile through a 'contrapuntal reading' of modern Palestinian and American writing. It argues that exile, in the Palestinian case ……続きを見る

This book traces the roots of Arabic science fiction through classical and medieval Arabic literature, undertaking close readings of formative texts of Arabic science fiction via a critical framewor……続きを見る

A groundbreaking study of one of the greatest encyclopedias of the medieval Islamic worldーal-Nuwayri’s The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition Shihab al-Din al-Nuwayri was a fourteenth-centu……続きを見る

The revered Persian poets and philosophers of the 13th and 14th century, (such as Saadi and Hafez) wrote lyrical poems called Ghazals, that recounted tales of love in all its splendour and tragedy. ……続きを見る

Browning Upon Arabia charts Robert Browning’s early and enduring engagement with the East, particularly the Arab East. This book highlights the complexities of Browning’s poetry, revealing Browning’……続きを見る

Peled-Shapira explores the connections between politics, society and literary expression in the works of the Iraqi writer Gha'ib Tu'ma Farman (1927-1990). As the first Iraqi to have composed a moder……続きを見る

Philip Metres stakes a claim for the cultural work that poems can performーfrom providing refuge to embodying resistance, from recovering silenced voices to building a more just world, in communitie……続きを見る

The pre-Islamic warrior-poet 'Antarah ibn Shaddad, a composer of one of the Mu'allaqat, attracted the attention of the philologists who were active in Iraq at the nascence of the scholarly study of ……続きを見る

This book brings together recent developments in modern migration theory, a wide range of sources, new and old tools revisited (from GIS to epigraphic studies, from stable isotope analysis to the st……続きを見る

The Nakba not only resulted in the loss of the homeland, but also caused the dispersal and ruin of entire Palestinian communities. Even though the term Nakba refers to a singular historic event, the……続きを見る

In Mahmoud Darwish: The Poet’s Art and His Nation, Mattawa pays tribute to one of the most celebrated and well-read poets of our era. With detailed knowledge of Arabic verse and a firm grounding in ……続きを見る

Der Divan definiert sich als eine Art "Blütenlese" aus der persischen Poesie, mit einer literarhistorischen Einleitung, biographischen Notizen und erläuternden Anmerkungen. 続きを見る

In this treatise Ibn Rushd (Averroes) sets out to show that the Scriptural Law (shar') of Islam does not altogether prohibit the study of philosophy by Muslims, but, on the contrary, makes it a duty……続きを見る

Edward Said’s Orientalism, now more than fifty years old, has to be one of the most frequently cited books among academics in a wide range of disciplines, and the most frequently assigned book to un……続きを見る

To the English reader the mysticism of Rumi opens a new world of spiritual and poetical experience. "God is One but religions are many" runs the Sufi teaching; and the English reader can here enlarg……続きを見る

The first publication in a new seriesーChristian Arabic Texts in Translation, edited by Stephen Davisーthis book presents English-language excerpts from thirteenth-century commentaries on the Apocal……続きを見る