Literary Criticism : Middle Eastern

This book charts the development of Afghan literature in the modern era, covering both poetry and prose, and relating it to social, economic and political change in that country.  more...

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This book is the first to use Persian Documents as the sources of social history in Early Modern Iran and Central Asia. more...

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A collection of studies relating to the multicultural traditions of papyrus writing in the Ancient Near East, with attention to the linguistic, literary and cultural features of these, often documentary, texts. The papers were presented at a conference marking Professor Levine's retirement. more...

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This work deals with concepts of time in pre-Islamic Arabic poetry and in the Koran, placing them in relation to Hellenistic conceptions of time in Late Antique poetry. The analysis shows that just as in the much earlier field of Greek poetry, so too in Old Arabic verse time is seen as an inescapable power. The Arabic concept for endless time, dahr, is revealed to be the Arabic equivalent of the Greek concept aión. In the Koran the power of time is denied completely and replaced by the absolute power of God, which is described with the help of Hellenistic conceptions of time. The research suggests the existence of an Arabic Hellenism, in the context of which Islam came into being. more...

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