This book approaches the Qur’an as a primary source for delineating the definition of ugliness, and by extension beauty, and in turn establishing meaningful tools and terms for literary criticism wi……続きを見る
The Sword of Ambition belongs to a genre of religious polemic written for the rulers of Egypt and Syria between the twelfth and the fourteenth centuries. Unlike most medieval Muslim polemic, the con……続きを見る
著者:Terri DeYoung
出版社: Syracuse University Press
発売日: 2016年09月14日
To explore the life of Mahmud Sami al-Barudi is to gain a nuanced perspective on the many facetsーthe perils and promisesーof change in the rapidly modernizing Egypt of the nineteenth century. Al-Ba……続きを見る
著者:Hanadi Al-Samman
出版社: Syracuse University Press
発売日: 2016年09月14日
Far from offering another study that bemoans Arab women’s repression and veiling, Anxiety of Erasure looks at Arab women writers living in the diaspora who have translated their experiences into a p……続きを見る
著者:Islam Issa
出版社: Taylor and Francis
発売日: 2016年10月14日
The first full-length study of the reception of John Milton’s (1608-74) writings in the Arab-Muslim world, this book examines the responses of Arab-Muslim readers to Milton’s works, and in particula……続きを見る
著者:A. J. Arberry
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2016年10月04日
First published in 1959, this reprint of the first edition of Edward FitzGerald’s translation of the Rubáiyát is accompanied by an introduction and notes by A J Arberry, one of Britain’s most distin……続きを見る
著者:A. J. Arberry
出版社: Taylor and Francis
発売日: 2016年10月04日
First published in 1953, this translation of part of the Arabian Nights by A. J. Arberry offers four famous stories in modern idiom: Aladdin, Judar, Aboukir and Abousir, and the Amorous Goldsmith. T……続きを見る
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Les contes arabes anonymes connus sous le titre des Mille et Une Nuits (Alf layla wa layla) forment un ensemble des plus composites. ……続きを見る
The True Dream is a Persian satirical drama set in Isfahan in the lead up to Iran’s Constitutional Revolution of 1905-11. Although its three authors hail from the clerical class, they criticize the ……続きを見る
著者:Orhan Pamuk
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2017年10月24日
From the Nobel Prize-winning author of My Name Is Red and Snow, a large-format, deluxe, collectible edition of his beloved memoir about life in Istanbul, with more than 200 added illustrations and a……続きを見る
Beginning with early Arab American playwright, poet and novelist Kahlil Gibran and concluding with contemporary playwright Yussef El Guindi, this book provides an historical overview and critical an……続きを見る
著者:Ulrich Marzolph
出版社: Wayne State University Press
発売日: 2017年04月17日
The Thousand and One Days, a companion collection to The Thousand and One Nights, was published in 1710–1712 by French Orientalist scholar François Pétis de la Croix who advertised it as the faithfu……続きを見る
著者:Baby Professor
出版社: Speedy Publishing LLC
発売日: 2017年02月15日
In this Middle Eastern History Book, we're going to take a look at the three power Empires that ruled centuries ago. Learning about them would help establish a model for living. Lessons will be pick……続きを見る
Arabic Literature for the Classroom argues for a more visible presence of Arabic within the humanities and social sciences, stressing the need to make Arabic literature available as a world literatu……続きを見る
Fiction by writers of Muslim background forms one of the most diverse, vibrant and high-profile corpora of work being produced today - from the trail-blazing writing of Salman Rushdie and Hanif Kure……続きを見る
"Gunny, a pioneer in the study of French and European literary and theological representations of Islam in the modern period, offers a survey of over 350 years, which is both a cross cultural histor……続きを見る
著者:Amy Motlagh
出版社: Stanford University Press
発売日: 2017年05月16日
Burying the Beloved traces the relationship between the law and literature in Iran to reveal the profound ambiguities at the heart of Iranian ideas of modernity regarding women's rights and social s……続きを見る
著者:N. Radwan
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan US
発売日: 2016年05月24日
Noha Radwan offers the first book-length study of the emergence, context, and development of modern Egyptian colloquial poetry, recently used as a vehicle for communications in the revolutionary you……続きを見る
著者:Lital Levy
出版社: Princeton University Press
発売日: 2014年10月26日
A Palestinian-Israeli poet declares a new state whose language, "Homelandic," is a combination of Arabic and Hebrew. A Jewish-Israeli author imagines a "language plague" that infects young Hebrew sp……続きを見る
The ups and downs of silk, cotton, and stocks syncopated with serialized novels in the late-nineteenth-century Arabic press: Time itself was changing. Novels of debt, dissimulation, and risk begin t……続きを見る
著者:Ken Seigneurie
出版社: Fordham University Press
発売日: 2011年10月03日
Since the mid-1970s, Lebanon has been at the center of the worldwide rise in sectarian extremism. Its cultural output has both mediated and resisted this rise. Standing by the Ruins reviews the role……続きを見る
Dante put Muhammad in one of the lowest circles of Hell. At the same time, the medieval Christian poet placed several Islamic philosophers much more honorably in Limbo. Furthermore, it has long been……続きを見る
著者:Tarek El-Ariss
出版社: Fordham University Press
発売日: 2013年04月15日
Challenging prevalent conceptualizations of modernityーwhich treat it either as a Western ideology imposed by colonialism or as a universal narrative of progress and innovationーthis study instead o……続きを見る
著者:Jeffrey Sacks
出版社: Fordham University Press
発売日: 2015年02月25日
In a series of exquisite close readings of Arabic and Arab Jewish writing, Jeffrey Sacks considers the relation of poetic statement to individual and collective loss, the dispossession of peoples an……続きを見る
著者:Sadia Abbas
出版社: Fordham University Press
発売日: 2014年05月26日
The subject of this book is a new “Islam.” This Islam began to take shape in 1988 around the Rushdie affair, the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and the first Gulf War of 1991. It was consolida……続きを見る
著者:Hala Halim
出版社: Fordham University Press
発売日: 2013年09月19日
Interrogating how Alexandria became enshrined as the exemplary cosmopolitan space in the Middle East, this book mounts a radical critique of Eurocentric conceptions of cosmopolitanism. The dominant ……続きを見る
著者:Rachel S. Harris
出版社: Wayne State University Press
発売日: 2017年11月15日
Warriors, Witches, Whores: Women in Israeli Cinema is a feminist study of Israel’s film industry and the changes that have occurred since the 1990s. Working in feminist film theory, the book adopts ……続きを見る
This book explores portrayals and predicaments of the disabled in Arab/Muslim post colonial North African and Middle Eastern societies in genres ranging from classical Arabic scripture to secular po……続きを見る
A master of the short story form, Muhammad Zafzaf is one of Morocco’s greatest narrative writers. This anthology, the first collection of his work translated into English, is a tribute to the remark……続きを見る
著者:Raymond Farrin
出版社: Syracuse University Press
発売日: 2017年11月01日
Abundance from the Desert provides a comprehensive introduction to classical Arabic poetry, one of the richest of poetic traditions. Covering the period roughly of 500-1250 c.e., it features origina……続きを見る