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...
