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The Prophet is a book of 26 poetic essays written in English in 1923 by the Lebanese-American artist, philosopher and writer Khalil Gibran. In the book, the prophet Almustafa who has lived in the fo……続きを見る

In Wedded to the Land? Mary N. Layoun offers a critical commentary on the idea of nationalism in general and on specific attempts to formulate alternatives to the concept in particular. Narratives s……続きを見る

This volume discusses The Thousand and One Nights' themes of space and travel showing how they are used not only as a setting in which the story unfolds, but also as the dynamic force which propels ……続きを見る

Facing rising demands for human rights and the rule of law, the Moroccan state fostered new mass media and cultivated more positive images of the police, once the symbol of state repression, reinven……続きを見る

Palestinian Literature and Film in Postcolonial Feminist Perspective is the first sustained study of gender-consciousness in the Palestinian creative imagination. Drawing on concepts from postcoloni……続きを見る

The extreme anti-Western actions and attitudes of Iranians in the 1980s astonished and dismayed the West, which has characterized the Iranian positions as irrational and inexplicable. In this ground……続きを見る

In the wake of the 1952 Revolution, Egypt’s future Nobel laureate in literature devoted himself exclusively to writing for film. The Aesthetic of Revolution in the Film and Literature of Naguib Mahf……続きを見る

Vrouwen spelen een actieve rol in het fundamentalistische Hofstadnetwerk. Ze rekruteren nieuwe sympathisanten, vertalen Mohammed B.-achtige documenten en geven islamitische lezingen. Binnen het radi……続きを見る

El Apólogo de la ociosidad y el trabajo forma parte del volumen intitulado Obras que Francisco Cervantes de Salazar ha hecho, glosado y traducido (1546), que agavilla tres obras precedidas de un pró……続きを見る

Se trata de un estudiante, hijo de labradores pobres, que cursa leyes en Salamanca con condición de criado. En ello se ocupa ocho años, simultaneando el derecho con las letras humanas. Tras de una e……続きを見る

Women Write Iran is the first full-length study on life narratives by Iranian women in the diaspora. Nima Naghibi investigates auto/biographical narratives across genresーincluding memoirs, document……続きを見る

In film studies, Iranian films are kept at a distance, as 'other,' different, and exotic. In reponse, this book takes these films as philosophically relevant and innovative. Each chapter of this boo……続きを見る

The book is the first study of the 10th century Iraqi poet Ibn al-Hajjaj who popularized a new genre of obscene and scatological parody (sukhf) and is considered the most obscene poet in Arabic lite……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

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

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

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

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

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

A Century of Encounters analyzes Arab, American, and European literary depictions of self and other as they interact with each other in Arab North Africa throughout the twentieth century and introdu……続きを見る

'In the breath that I die, for you I'll be longing/ Wishing to turn into the dust of your belonging' - Sa'di, Expressions of Love. With poetry which speaks across the ages, Sa'di (1210-1281) is a vi……続きを見る

The Mahfouz Dialogs records the memories, views, and jokes of Naguib Mahfouz on subjects ranging from politics to the relationship between his novels and his life, as delivered to intimate friends a……続きを見る

This book analyzes the distinguished modern Muslim scholar Bediuzzaman Said Nursi and the methodology of Qur’anic exegesis in his Risale-i Nur Collection, with special reference to the views of the ……続きを見る

Does the study of aesthetics have tangible effects in the real world? Does examining the work of diaspora writers and artists change our view of "the Other"? In this thoughtful book, Ebrahimi argues……続きを見る

This literary-historical book draws out and sheds light upon the mechanisms of "the ideological work" that the Arabic Majnūn Laylā story performed for ‘Abbāsid urbanite, imperial audiences in the wa……続きを見る

In the essays collected here, Abbas Milani uses an impressive array of cross-disciplinary Western and Iranian theories and texts to investigate the crucial question of modernity in Iran today. He of……続きを見る

Les Ruvres complètes de François Villon est un recueil de poésie médiévale française du XVe siècle, écrit par l'auteur en question. Ce livre présente une série de ballades, rondeaux et autres formes……続きを見る

Toward the end of the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh King Gilgamesh laments the untimely death of his comrade Enkidu, "my friend whom I loved dearly." Similarly in the Bible, David mourns his compan……続きを見る

During the second half of the twentieth century, the Arab intellectual and political scene polarized between a search for totalizing doctrinesーnationalist, Marxist, and religiousーand radical criti……続きを見る

When Henry Luce announced in 1941 that we were living in the "American century," he believed that the international popularity of American culture made the world favorable to U.S. interests. Now, in……続きを見る