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Arab Representations of the Occidentby Rasheed El-Enany
RoutledgeCurzon 2005; US$ 170.00This book explores Arab responses to Western Culture and values as expressed mainly through works of fiction written by Arab authors during the twentieth, and, to a lesser extent, nineteenth century. more...
Structure and Meaning in Medieval Arabic and Persian Lyricby Julie Meisami
RoutledgeCurzon 2002; US$ 190.00This is the first comprehensive and comparative study of compositional and stylistic techniques in medieval Arabic and Persian lyric poetry. It also examines works by the indigenous critics of poetry in both Arabic and Persian. more...
Making the Great Book of Songsby Hilary Kilpatrick
RoutledgeCurzon 2002; US$ 190.00This is the first systematic literary study of one of the masterpieces of classical Arabic literature, the 4/10th century Kitâb al-aghânî ( The Book of Songs ) by Abû I-Faraj al-Isbahânî. more...
Arabic Literature - An Overviewby Pierre Cachia
RoutledgeCurzon 2002; US$ 190.00Assuming no previous knowledge of the subject, this book provides a balanced overview of Arab literature, from 'high' literature to popular folk literature, covering the classical and modern periods. more...
Persian Documentsby Kondo Nobuaki
RoutledgeCurzon 2003; US$ 200.00This book is the first to use Persian Documents as the sources of social history in Early Modern Iran and Central Asia. more...
Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur and Arabic Writerly Cultureby Shawkat M. Toorawa
RoutledgeCurzon 2005; US$ 200.00This book re-evaluates the literary history and landscape of the third/ninth century by demonstrating and emphasising the significance of the important transition from a predominantly oral-aural culture to an increasingly literate one. more...
Novel and the Rural Imaginary in Egypt, 1880-1985by Samah Selim
RoutledgeCurzon 2004; US$ 180.00This book focuses on the relationship between the Egyptian village as a discursive construct and the novel genre as it emerged and developed in Egypt from the first decades of the century until its end. more...
Persian Literature- A Bio-Bibliographical Surveyby Franç de Blois; ois
RoutledgeCurzon 2004; US$ 190.00This famous work from the Royal Asiatic Society is an indispensable tool for all serious students of Persian literature, history and culture, and a welcome companion to Persian Literature in its most glorious period. This volume is the second, more...
Literature, Partition and the Nation-Stateby Joe Cleary; Timothy Brennan
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 34.00An extended study of the social and cultural legacies of state division in Ireland and Palestine. The book examines nationalism and self-determination; the construction of national literatures in the wake of state division; and influential Irish, Israeli and Palestinian writers, film-makers and public intellectuals. more...
An Introduction to Arabic Literatureby Roger Allen
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 36.00This volume provides a comprehensive introductory survey of literary texts in Arabic, from the fifth century to the present day. With extensive quotations in translation, a chronology and a guide to further reading, it is an invaluable student introduction to a major non-Western literary tradition. more...