Studying Modern Arabic Literature: Mustafa Badawi, Scholar and Critic

ISBN-13: 9780748696628 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 232 str.

Roger Allen;Robin Ostle

Opis

This book is devoted to the life and academic legacy of Mustafa Badawi who transformed the study of Modern Arabic Literature in the second half of the 20th century.

Spis treści

Introduction; Part 1: Alexandria to Oxford; 1.The Cosmopolitan Alexandrian, Robin Ostle; 2. Muhammad Mustafa Badawi in Conversation, Abdul Nabi Isstaif; 3. Badawi: An Academic with a Vision. A Personal Testimony, Sabry Hafez; 4. From the Shadow Plays of Ibn Daniyal to the Poetry of Philip Larkin: Mustafa Badawi as Editor and Translator, Derek Hopwood; Part II: The Academic Legacy; 5. Beginning and End: Exploring the Qur’anic ‘Grand Story’, Mohamed Mahmoud; 6. Modern Arabic Literature as seen in the late 19th Century. Jurji Murqus’s contribution to Korsh and Kipichnikov’s Vseobshchaya Istoria Literatury, Hilary Kilpatrick; 7. The ‘Second Journey’ (al-Rihla al-Thaniya) of Muhammad al-Muwaylihi’s Hadith ‘Isa Ibn Hisham Re-visited, Roger Allen; 8. Ataturk becomes Antar: Nationalist-vernacular Politics and Epic Heroism in 1920s Egypt, Marilyn Booth; 9. Jewish Arabs in the Israeli Asylum. A Literary reflection, Miriam Cooke; 10. Strange Incidents from History: Youssef Rakha and his 'Sultan’s Seal', Paul Starkey; 11. Towards a Comparative Approach to Arabic Literature, Abdul Nabi Isstaif; 12. Does Literature Matter? The Relationship between Literature and Politics in Revolutionary Egypt, Elisabeth Kendall; Notes; Bibliography; List of Contributors; Index.