The [European] Other in Medieval Arabic Literature and Culture: Ninth-Twelfth Century Ad
ISBN: 9781349292134 / Angielski / Miękka / 241 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On t.p. the word European is enclosed in brackets.
On t.p. the word European is enclosed in brackets.
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Catalogue of the Arabic, Persian and Turkish Manuscripts in Belgium Volume 1 Handlist Part 1: Part 1: Université de Liège
ISBN: 9789004326453 / Angielski / Twarda / 564 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Catalogue of the Arabic, Persian and Turkish Manuscripts in Belgium is a union catalogue aiming is to present the Oriental manuscripts held by various Belgian public institutions (Royal Library, university and public libraries). These collections and their contents are largely unknown to scholars due to the lack of published catalogues. This first volume, consisting of a bi-lingual (English and Arabic) handlist, concerns the collection of the Universite de Liege, which holds the largest number of Oriental manuscripts (c. 500). Each title is briefly described, identifying the author...
The Catalogue of the Arabic, Persian and Turkish Manuscripts in Belgium is a union catalogue aiming is to present the Oriental manuscripts held...
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810,13 zł |
Pioneering Female Authors in Egypt and the Levant: An Introduction into the Origins of the Arabic the Novel
ISBN: 9789979724797 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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27,72 zł |
Fathers and Sons in the Arab Middle East
ISBN: 9781349462940 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on insights from psychology, sociology, anthropology, religion, history, and literature, this book examines early and contemporary writings of male authors from across the Arab world to explore the traditional and evolving nature of father-son relationships in Arab families.
Drawing on insights from psychology, sociology, anthropology, religion, history, and literature, this book examines early and contemporary writings of...
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192,74 zł |
Catastrophe and Exile in the Modern Palestinian Imagination: Telling Memories
ISBN: 9781349433599 / Angielski / Miękka / 259 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book addresses central concepts to debates over Palestinian identity such as nostalgia and trauma, notions of home and forced travel, identity as representationally performative, and post-memory and geopolitical continuity of loss of place in the everyday.
This book addresses central concepts to debates over Palestinian identity such as nostalgia and trauma, notions of home and forced travel, identity as...
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192,74 zł |
Rumi Essays: On the Life, Poetry, and Vision of the Greatest Persian Sufi Poet
ISBN: 9780985056810 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mawlana Jalaluddin Rumi, a 13th-centry Persian Sufi poet, is one of the most widely-read poets today. But who was Rumi really? How do we know what we know about him? How did he become a passionate poet of love? What was the nature of the relationship between Rumi and his beloved friend Shams? What are the key notions in the thousands of Rumi poems? What are Rumi's essential teachings for transformation and spiritual growth? How can we use his poetry as meditation? How is Rumi related to our modern world and life? How do Rumi's views compare with the teachings of the Buddha? What is the...
Mawlana Jalaluddin Rumi, a 13th-centry Persian Sufi poet, is one of the most widely-read poets today. But who was Rumi really? How do we know what we ...
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65,77 zł |
Arabic Literature for the Classroom: Teaching Methods, Theories, Themes and Texts
ISBN: 9781138211964 / Angielski / Twarda / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Arabic Literature for the Classroom argues for a more visible presence of Arabic within the humanities and social sciences, stressing the need to make Arabic literature available as a world literature, without damaging its own distinctive characteristics. The nineteen chapters which make up this book broach theoretical and methodical cultural concerns in teaching literatures from non-American cultures, along with issues of cross-cultural communication, cultural competency and translation. While some chapters bring out the fascinating and ever tantalizing connections between... Arabic Literature for the Classroom argues for a more visible presence of Arabic within the humanities and social sciences, stressing the ... |
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698,90 zł |
Arabic Literature for the Classroom: Teaching Methods, Theories, Themes and Texts
ISBN: 9781138211971 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Arabic Literature for the Classroom argues for a more visible presence of Arabic within the humanities and social sciences, stressing the need to make Arabic literature available as a world literature, without damaging its own distinctive characteristics. The nineteen chapters which make up this book broach theoretical and methodical cultural concerns in teaching literatures from non-American cultures, along with issues of cross-cultural communication, cultural competency and translation. While some chapters bring out the fascinating and ever tantalizing connections between... Arabic Literature for the Classroom argues for a more visible presence of Arabic within the humanities and social sciences, stressing the ... |
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258,80 zł |
Subjectivity in ʿAttār, Persian Sufism, and European Mysticism
ISBN: 9781557537836 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Adopting an empirical and systematic approach, this interdisciplinary study of medieval Persian Sufi tradition and ʿAttār (1145-1221) opens up a new space of comparison for reading and understanding medieval Persian and European literatures. The book invites us on an intellectual journey that reveals exciting intersections that redefine the hierarchies and terms of comparison. While the primary focus of the book is on reassessing the significance of the concept of transgression and construction of subjectivity within select works of ʿAttār within Persian Sufi tradition,...
Adopting an empirical and systematic approach, this interdisciplinary study of medieval Persian Sufi tradition and ʿAttār (1145-1221) opens ...
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283,47 zł |
Routledge Revivals: The Seven Odes (1957): The First Chapter in Arabic Literature
ISBN: 9781138215368 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These seven poems, translated by A. J. Arberry in 1957, are the most famous survivors of a vast mass of poetry produced in the Arabian Desert in the sixth century. Arberry's introduction explains to the reader what was known about the poems and how they came to be preserved and distributed over time. The epilogue particularly interrogates the authenticity of the poems and tracks how they have been transmitted over time. This work will be of interest to those studying Persian and Middle-Eastern literature and history.
These seven poems, translated by A. J. Arberry in 1957, are the most famous survivors of a vast mass of poetry produced in the Arabian Desert in the s...
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698,90 zł |
Commentary on Mathnavi 2: A Fresh Approach to the Foundation of Theoretical Mysticism
ISBN: 9786009530212 / Perski / Miękka / 570 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. According to the modern society, increasing interest in moral and mystical issues, especially a tendency toward Mulavi's thoughts, which were able to tie up with various religions and cultures humanely, through an attractive language, and a perfect clear spirit, under the banner of love nation; these series of books are as a precious guidance for fans in understanding the facts contained in Mathnavi and discovering Rumi's ideas. The proficient writer and researcher of the great series, has accomplished studies in order to prepare the readers' minds for a better understanding of the context;...
According to the modern society, increasing interest in moral and mystical issues, especially a tendency toward Mulavi's thoughts, which were able to ...
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138,59 zł |
Commentary on Mathnavi 4: A Fresh Approach to the Foundation of Theoretical Mysticism
ISBN: 9786009530236 / Perski / Miękka / 562 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. According to the modern society, increasing interest in moral and mystical issues, especially a tendency toward Mulavi's thoughts, which were able to tie up with various religions and cultures humanely, through an attractive language, and a perfect clear spirit, under the banner of love nation; these series of books are as a precious guidance for fans in understanding the facts contained in Mathnavi and discovering Rumi's ideas. The proficient writer and researcher of the great series, has accomplished studies in order to prepare the readers' minds for a better understanding of the context;...
According to the modern society, increasing interest in moral and mystical issues, especially a tendency toward Mulavi's thoughts, which were able to ...
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138,59 zł |
Fictitious Capital: Silk, Cotton, and the Rise of the Arabic Novel
ISBN: 9780823276028 / Angielski / Twarda / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The ups and downs of silk, cotton, and stocks syncopated with serialized novels in the late nineteenth-century Arabic press: Time itself was changing. Khalil al-Khuri, Salim al-Bustani, Yusuf al-Shalfun, Jurji Zaydan and Ya'qub Sarruf wrote novels of debt, dissimulation, and risk--increasingly legible at a moment when French and British empires were unseating the Ottoman legacy in Beirut, Cairo and beyond. As silk dominated Beirut's markets and the hopes of its reading public, Cairo speculated in cotton shares, real estate and the stock market, which crashed in 1907. At the turn of the...
The ups and downs of silk, cotton, and stocks syncopated with serialized novels in the late nineteenth-century Arabic press: Time itself was changing....
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383,10 zł |
Arabs and the Art of Storytelling: A Strange Familiarity
ISBN: 9780815635185 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Arabs and the Art of Storytelling, the eminent Moroccan literary historian and critic Kilito revisits and reassesses, in a modern critical light, many traditional narratives of the Arab world. He brings to such celebrated texts as A Thousand and One Nights, Kalila and Dimna, and Kitab al-Bukhala refreshing and iconoclastic insight, giving new life to classic stories that are often treated as fossilized and untouchable cultural treasures. In Arabs and the Art of Storytelling, the eminent Moroccan literary historian and critic Kilito revisits and reassesses, in a modern critica... |
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129,18 zł |
Counsel for Kings: Wisdom and Politics in Tenth-Century Iran: Volume II: the Nasihat Al-Muluk of Pseudo-Mawardi: Texts, Sources and Authorities
ISBN: 9781474426428 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mirrors for princes form a substantial and important genre in many pre-modern literatures. Their ostensible purpose is to advise the king; at the same time they assert that the king, if he is truly virtuous, will appreciate being reminded of the contingency of his power. The unknown author of the Counsel for Kings studied in this book wrote in a distinctive early tenth-century Iranian environment. He deploys an abundant set of cultural materials representing 'perennial wisdom' of mixed provenances, which he reinvigorates by applying them to the circumstances of his own time and...
Mirrors for princes form a substantial and important genre in many pre-modern literatures. Their ostensible purpose is to advise the king; at the same...
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158,19 zł |
Schriften, Gedichte, Fragmente (Großdruck)
ISBN: 9781540554871 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 734 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Grossdruck Auszug aus "Deutschland": Deutschland ist noch ein kleines Kind, Doch die Sonne ist seine Amme; Sie saugt es nicht mit stiller Milch, Sie saugt es mit wilder Flamme. Bei solcher Nahrung wachst man schnell Und kocht das Blut in den Adern. Ihr Nachbarskinder, hutet euch Mit dem jungen Burschen zu hadern Es ist ein tappisches Rieselein, Reisst aus dem Boden die Eiche, Und schlagt euch damit den Rucken wund Und die Kopfe windelweiche. Dem Siegfried gleicht er, dem edlen Fant, Von dem wir singen und sagen; Der hat, nachdem er geschmiedet sein Schwert, Den Amboss entzwei geschlagen Ja,...
Grossdruck Auszug aus "Deutschland": Deutschland ist noch ein kleines Kind, Doch die Sonne ist seine Amme; Sie saugt es nicht mit stiller Milch, Sie s...
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120,11 zł |
Fictitious Capital: Silk, Cotton, and the Rise of the Arabic Novel
ISBN: 9780823276035 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The ups and downs of silk, cotton, and stocks syncopated with serialized novels in the late nineteenth-century Arabic press: Time itself was changing. Khalil al-Khuri, Salim al-Bustani, Yusuf al-Shalfun, Jurji Zaydan and Ya'qub Sarruf wrote novels of debt, dissimulation, and risk--increasingly legible at a moment when French and British empires were unseating the Ottoman legacy in Beirut, Cairo and beyond. As silk dominated Beirut's markets and the hopes of its reading public, Cairo speculated in cotton shares, real estate and the stock market, which crashed in 1907. At the turn of the...
The ups and downs of silk, cotton, and stocks syncopated with serialized novels in the late nineteenth-century Arabic press: Time itself was changing....
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113,84 zł |
Modern Arabic Poetry: Revolution and Conflict
ISBN: 9780268101541 / Angielski / Twarda / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Modern Arabic Poetry, Waed Athamneh addresses enduring questions raised from the 1950s to the present as she investigates the impact of past and contemporary Middle Eastern politics on its poetry.Focusing on the works of three prominent poets, Iraqi Abd al-Wahhab al-Bayati (1926-1999), Egyptian Ahmad Abd al-Muti Hijazi (b. 1935), and Palestinian Mahmud Darwish (1941-2008), Athamneh argues that political changes in the modern Arab world--including the 1967 war and the fall of Nasserism, the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and, in Hijazi's case, the 2011 Arab Uprising and its...
In Modern Arabic Poetry, Waed Athamneh addresses enduring questions raised from the 1950s to the present as she investigates the impact of past...
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258,86 zł |
Images of Afghanistan: Exploring Afghan Culture through Art and Literature
ISBN: 9781533098016 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Images of Afghanistan provides the first-ever overview of the art and literature of Afghanistan. 32 chapters on art, music, film, proverbs, short stories, poetry, cartoons, and folktales in popular style offer key insights into the complexities of Afghan culture. The book is divided into seven sections. Introductory chapters focus on the history of Afghanistan and understanding culture through art and literature. A Dari Literature section covers classical and modern poetry, short stories, proverbs and children's rhymes. A Pashto Literature section includes traditional poetry, modern poetry,...
Images of Afghanistan provides the first-ever overview of the art and literature of Afghanistan. 32 chapters on art, music, film, proverbs, short stor...
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294,40 zł |
Ibn al-Farid's "Khamriyya" ("Ode on Wine")
ISBN: 9781540727749 / Angielski / Miękka / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Arabic literature and philosophy, mysticism is one of the most significant traditions. The fountainhead of Sufism in Islam is still a debatable issue. The Persians had many famous mystic poets. Arabic literature has only one great mystical poet of pure Arabic descent worthy to stand next to the Persian masters: Sharaf ad-Din 'Umar Ibn 'Ali as-Sa'di, known as Ibn al-Farid, or the Notary's Son (1181-1253), who was born in Cairo. He was dedicated from early manhood to the mystic's method of withdrawal from the world. He was utterly satisfied in later life to remember with ecstatic pleasure...
In Arabic literature and philosophy, mysticism is one of the most significant traditions. The fountainhead of Sufism in Islam is still a debatable iss...
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138,59 zł |