The City in Arabic Literature: Classical and Modern Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9781474455824 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 360 str.

Nizar F. Hermes; Gretchen Head

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Editors’ Preface

Chapter 1 The Untranslatability of the Qurʾānic City
by Mohammad Salama

Chapter 2 Local Historians and their Cities: the Urban Topography of al-Azdī’s Mosul and al- Sahmī’s Jurjan
by Harry Munt

Chapter 3 Against Cities: On Hijā’ al-Mudun in Arabic Poetry
by Huda Fakhreddine and Bilal Orfali

Chapter 4 The Literary Geography of Meaning in the Maqāmāt of al-Hamadhānī and al-Hòarīrī
by Sarah R. bin Tyeer

Chapter 5 "Woe is me for Qayrawan!" Ibn Sharaf's Lāmiyya, the Plight of Refugees and the Cityscape
by Nizar F. Hermes

Chapter 6 In Memory of al-Andalus: Using the Elegy to Reimagine the Literary and Literal Geography of Cordoba
by Anna Cruz

Chapter 7 The Mamluk City as Overlapping Personal Networks
by Kelly Tuttle

Chapter 8 Citystruck
by Adam Talib

Chapter 9 Between Utopia and Dystopia in Marrakech
by Gretchen Head

Chapter 10 Revolutionary Cityscapes: Yūsuf Idrīs and the National Imaginary
by Yasmine Ramadan

Chapter 11 Lost Cities, Vanished Worlds: Configurations of Urban Autobiographical Identity in the Arabic Literature of the 1980s
by Valerie Anishchenkova

Chapter 12 The Sufis of Baghdad: A Topographical Index of the City
by Boutheina Khaldi

Chapter 13 Basòrayātha: Self-Portrait as a City
by William Maynard Hutchins

Chapter 14 Of Cities and Canons in an Age of Comparative Consumption
by Hanadi Al-Samman

Chapter 15 Everyday Writing in an Extraordinary City
by Ghenwa Hayek

Chapter 16 Translating Cairo’s Hidden Lines: The City as Visual Text in Magdy El Shafee’s Metro
by Chip Rossetti