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The [European] Other in Medieval Arabic Literature and Culture
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 90.00Contrary to the monolithic impression left by postcolonial theories of Orientalism, the book makes the case that Orientals did not exist solely to be gazed at. Hermes shows that there was no shortage of medieval Muslims who cast curious eyes towards the European Other and that more than a handful of them were interested in Europe. more...
A Brief Introduction to Modern Arabic Literature
Saqi 2012; US$ 10.19Modern Arabic literature remains little known and poorly understood despite growing curiosity among European readers. This brief introduction offers a unique overview, focusing on developments over the last fifty years. It provides a guide to the literary landscape, indicating the major landmarks in the shape of authors, ideas and debates. The picture... more...
Europe's Languages on England's Stages, 15901620
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2012; US$ 89.95Exploring issues of culture and performance raised by presentations of European languages-Welsh, French, Dutch, Spanish, Irish and Latin-on the stage, this book treats sound and performance as essential to understanding what these languages meant in the English theatre. It contributes to our emerging sense of how local identities and global knowledge... more...
Gender, Sex, and the City
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 95.00Explores the urban, cosmopolitan sensibilities of Urdu poetry written in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Lucknow. Ruth Vanita analyzes Rekhti, a type of Urdu poetry distinguished by afemale speaker and a focus on women's lives,and shows how it becamea catalyst for the transformation of the ghazal. more...
Catastrophe and Exile in the Modern Palestinian Imagination
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 95.00This book addresses central concepts to debates over Palestinian identity such as nostalgia and trauma, notions of home and forced travel, identity as representationally performative, and post-memory and geopolitical continuity of loss of place in the everyday. more...
Der andere Orientalismus
De Gruyter 2005; US$ 196.00This book presents the first systematic overall view of the genesis and form of what has long been discussed by researchers under the heading of ?German Orientalism?. Focussing historically on the early 19th century, the author sketches the literary, academic and political conditions under which the modern German image of the Orient has been constituted,... more...
Sirat Antara the Manuscript from the University Library in Wroclaw, Poland
The Edwin Mellen Press 2011; US$ 169.95The Sirat Antara was an eighteenth century manuscript discovered by Anna Nawolska in the Manuscripts Department of Wroclaw University, Poland, which Nawolska translated from Arabic into English. Anatara Ibn Shaddad al-Absi was a sixth century pre-Islamic poet, knight, and hero. The Sirat Antara is the fifth incomplete volume of the chivalric epic that... more...
Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 125.00Fiction 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 Kureishi, which challenged political and racial orthodoxies in the 1980s, to that of a new generation including Mohsin Hamid, Nadeem Aslam and Kamila Shamsie.... more...
Judah Abrabanel's Philosophy of Love and Kabbalah
The Edwin Mellen Press 2012; US$ 209.95This book shows how Judah Abrabanels writings are philosophical, and not merely religious. It examines the Renaissance belief that Love should know more than Wisdom, which is something Abrabanel taught. The ultimate mystical union with God for Abrabanel is beneficence towards ones fellow human beings. His view is that love is the affirmation... more...
Popular Culture in the Middle East and North Africa: A Postcolonial Outlook
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 125.00This book explores the body and the production process of popular culture in, and on, the Middle East and North Africa, Turkey, and Iran in the first decade of the 21st century, and up to the current historical moment. Essays consider gender, racial, political, and?cultural issues in film, cartoons, music, dance,?photo-tattoos, graphic novels, fiction,... more...









