This volume studies how the literary elements in the Qur'an function in conveying its religious message effectively. It is divided into three parts. Part One includes the studies of the whole Qur'an or large segments of it belonging to one period of its historical period of its revelation: these studies concentrate on the analysis of its language, style, structural composition, aesthetic characteristics, theoretical devices, imagery, and the impact of these elements and their significance. Part Two includes studies on individual suras of the Qur'an, each of which focuses on the sura's...
This volume studies how the literary elements in the Qur'an function in conveying its religious message effectively. It is divided into three parts. P...
An Arab artist in Tangier grapples with political and erotic issues in this pivotal work by the most celebrated Moroccan author of the past twenty-five years. Cosmopolitan Tangier, heart and soul of Morocco, sets the stage for this smoldering novel of dreams and lovers, both before and after the nation's independence. Al 'Ayshuni, a middle-aged painter of bohemian and political inclinations has fallen in love with a younger woman, the alluring Ghaylana. But fate intervenes when she leaves him for new adventures in Spain. Now, Al 'Ayshuni befriends Ghaylana's daughter, the impressionable...
An Arab artist in Tangier grapples with political and erotic issues in this pivotal work by the most celebrated Moroccan author of the past twenty-fiv...
"The First Well" is an engaging autobiographical account of Jabra s boyhood in Bethlehem, where he was born in 1920, and later in Jerusalem, where he moved as a teenager with his parents.Through the eyes and heart of a sensitive, highly imaginative boy, Jabra describes the first sources of his artistic sensibility the houses, fields, and orchards of his childhood and the Christian, Muslim, and Jewish cultures of Bethlehem and Jerusalem. "The First Well" is the story of his intellectual and spiritual growth nurtured and encouraged by his family, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and his teachers....
"The First Well" is an engaging autobiographical account of Jabra s boyhood in Bethlehem, where he was born in 1920, and later in Jerusalem, where he ...
"The First Well" is an engaging autobiographical account of Jabra s boyhood in Bethlehem, where he was born in 1920, and later in Jerusalem, where he moved as a teenager with his parents.Through the eyes and heart of a sensitive, highly imaginative boy, Jabra describes the first sources of his artistic sensibility the houses, fields, and orchards of his childhood and the Christian, Muslim, and Jewish cultures of Bethlehem and Jerusalem. "The First Well" is the story of his intellectual and spiritual growth nurtured and encouraged by his family, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and his teachers....
"The First Well" is an engaging autobiographical account of Jabra s boyhood in Bethlehem, where he was born in 1920, and later in Jerusalem, where he ...
Originally Gathered As a tribute to the poet, scholar, and teacher Mounah A. Khouri, Tradition and Modernity in Arabic Literature creates a comprehensive sampling of the major currents of thought on Arabic fiction, poetry, theater, and film in the late twentieth century. Here are illuminating essays on emigrant poet Kahlil Gibran, on the relation of modern Arabic poetry to traditional Arabic literature and its Greek cultural heritage, on novelists like Tawfiq Yusuf Awwad and Ibrahim al-Kawni, and on the achievements of modern Arabic film and theater. From fifteen contributors, Issa Boullata...
Originally Gathered As a tribute to the poet, scholar, and teacher Mounah A. Khouri, Tradition and Modernity in Arabic Literature creates a comprehens...
Marking collisions and mutations of culture and character, these ten short stories arise at the frontiers where Arabic tradition melds with both the modern European world and a Gothic strata of the supernatural. The resultant mix sparks tensions between the sexes, between identities, and between experimental forms of storytelling and strict narrative.
In Samman's fiction, matchmakers still come to call, but lovers go bungee jumping. A schizophrenic has a discussion with one of his personalities about murder and relationships with women. Avoiding ghosts both real and imagined, a war-exile...
Marking collisions and mutations of culture and character, these ten short stories arise at the frontiers where Arabic tradition melds with both the m...
Marking collisions and mutations of culture and character, these ten short stories arise at the frontiers where Arabic tradition melds with both the modern European world and a Gothic strata of the supernatural. The resultant mix sparks tensions between the sexes, between identities, and between experimental forms of storytelling and strict narrative.
In Samman's fiction, matchmakers still come to call, but lovers go bungee jumping. A schizophrenic has a discussion with one of his personalities about murder and relationships with women. Avoiding ghosts both real and imagined, a war-exile...
Marking collisions and mutations of culture and character, these ten short stories arise at the frontiers where Arabic tradition melds with both the m...
