The Changing Rhythm. A study of Najīb Maḥfūẓ's Novels
ISBN: 9789004035874 / Angielski / Twarda / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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577,70 zł |
Studies in Modern Arabic Prose and Poetry
ISBN: 9789004083592 / Angielski / Twarda / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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457,88 zł |
Israel Oriental Studies, Volume 13
ISBN: 9789004099012 / Angielski / Twarda / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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932,88 zł |
Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia, Volume 2 Story of a Desert Knight: The Legend of Šlēwīḥ al-‘Aṭāwi and other ‘Utaybah Heroes. An Edition with Translation and Introduction
ISBN: 9789004101029 / Angielski / Twarda / 516 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Story of a Desert Knight is the second volume of a trilogy entitled Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia. It is devoted to the narratives told about and the poems composed by Slēwīḥ al-'Aṭāwi and his brother Bxīt, both famous desert knights in the middle and second half of the nineteenth century. The principal source of this book is Slēwīḥ's great-grandson Xālid, a sheikh of the 'Utaybah tribe. The introduction discusses inter alia the general characteristics of Bedouin oral culture, the linguistic,...
The Story of a Desert Knight is the second volume of a trilogy entitled Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia. It is devoted to...
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843,01 zł |
Concepts of the Other in Near Eastern Religions
ISBN: 9789004102200 / Angielski / Twarda / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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997,07 zł |
Voices from the Desert: Glossary, Indices, and List of Recordings
ISBN: 9789004144217 / Angielski / Twarda / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Voices from the Desert is the fifth and concluding volume of P. Marcel Kurpershoek's Corpus Oral Poetry & Narratives from Central Arabia. The first volume appeared in 1994. In the Preface the author looks back on his almost twenty years of involvement with Arabian oral culture. He also discusses some of the striking features of the traditions collected in these volumes, and their significance within the broader political, social, and cultural context of the tribal system stretching from Yemen to the Anatolian highlands. An Introduction is followed by a consolidated Glossary,...
Voices from the Desert is the fifth and concluding volume of P. Marcel Kurpershoek's Corpus Oral Poetry & Narratives from Central Arabia...
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843,01 zł |
Pens, Swords, and the Springs of Art: The Oral Poetry Dueling of Palestinian Weddings in the Galilee
ISBN: 9789004152595 / Angielski / Twarda / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Offering an analysis of oral poetry dueling performed at traditional Palestinian weddings this book addresses poetry dueling as a performative and compositional device, and explores the complex linkages between this tradition and other genres of Arabic poetry.
Offering an analysis of oral poetry dueling performed at traditional Palestinian weddings this book addresses poetry dueling as a performative and com...
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753,15 zł |
Parenthesis in Biblical Hebrew
ISBN: 9789004162433 / Angielski / Twarda / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In its examination of parenthesis in Biblical Hebrew, this book presents a linguistic description of Biblical Hebrew parenthetical units through integration of several research disciplines and scholarly approaches: linguistics, discourse studies, text linguistics, textual philology, comparative Semitics, Bible translations, and literature.
In its examination of parenthesis in Biblical Hebrew, this book presents a linguistic description of Biblical Hebrew parenthetical units through integ...
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748,87 zł |
How to Read the Egyptian Book of the Dead
ISBN: 9780393330793 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Book of the Dead, the modern name given to a popular compilation of ancient Egyptian spells, empowered the reader to overcome the dangers lurking in the Otherworld and to become one with the gods that governed. Barry Kemp selects a number of spells to explore who and what the Egyptians feared and the kind of assistance that the book offered them, revealing a relationship between the human individual and the divine quite unlike that found in the major faiths of the modern world.
The Book of the Dead, the modern name given to a popular compilation of ancient Egyptian spells, empowered the reader to overcome the dangers...
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86,51 zł |
The Quest for Identities: The Development of the Modern Arabic Short Story
ISBN: 9780863563638 / Angielski / Twarda / 475 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A fascinating study of a popular and vital genre often overlooked by literary critics.
A fascinating study of a popular and vital genre often overlooked by literary critics.
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191,10 zł |
A Brief Introduction to Modern Arabic Literature
ISBN: 9780863564055 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This short book offers a unique overview of modern Arabic literature, focusing on developments over the last fifty years and providing a guide to the literary landscape, indicating the major landmarks in the shape of authors, ideas, and debates. This is the second of two titles published to launch a new series offering insight into Arabic advances in science and culture. Aimed at the general reader, the titles are illustrated and contain glossaries, indices, and suggestions for further reading. David Tresilian has taught at Columbia University and the American University... This short book offers a unique overview of modern Arabic literature, focusing on developments over the last fifty years and providing a guide to t... |
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43,63 zł |
Approaches to Arabic Linguistics: Presented to Kees Versteegh on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday
ISBN: 9789004160156 / Angielski / Twarda / 762 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For a lifetime Kees Versteegh played a leading role in Arabic linguistics, dialects (diglossia, creolization, pidginization), the history of Arabic grammar, and other fields related to Arabic. From among his global contacts, colleagues contributed to a Liber Amicorum in appreciation of his stimulating efforts to reopen, deepen and complete our knowledge of Arabic Grammar and Linguistics. In three sections, History, Linguistics and Dialects, 27 contributors discuss (alphabetically): bilingual verb construction; contractual language; current developments; language description; language use;...
For a lifetime Kees Versteegh played a leading role in Arabic linguistics, dialects (diglossia, creolization, pidginization), the history of Arabic gr...
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1656,08 zł |
Modern Arabic Fiction: An Anthology
ISBN: 9780231132558 / Angielski / Miękka / 1064 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Beginning with the late-nineteenth-century cultural resurgence and continuing through the present day, short stories and novels have given voice to the personal and historical experiences of modern Arabs. This anthology offers a rich and diverse selection of works from more than one hundred and forty prominent Arab writers of fiction. The collection reflects Arab writers' formal inventiveness as well as their intense exploration of various dimensions of modern Arab life, including the impact of modernity, the rise of the oil economy, political authoritarianism, corruption, religion, poverty,...
Beginning with the late-nineteenth-century cultural resurgence and continuing through the present day, short stories and novels have given voice to th...
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285,57 zł |
The Legacy of Edward W. Said
ISBN: 9780252033889 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With the untimely death of Edward W. Said in 2003, various academic and public intellectuals worldwide have begun to reassess the writings of this powerful oppositional intellectual. Figures on the neoconservative right have already begun to discredit Said s work as that of a subversive intent on slandering America s benign global image and undermining its global authority. On the left, a significant number of oppositional intellectuals are eager to counter this neoconservative vilification, proffering a Said who, in marked opposition to the anti-humanism of the great poststructuralist... With the untimely death of Edward W. Said in 2003, various academic and public intellectuals worldwide have begun to reassess the writings of this ... |
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534,26 zł |
Sadeq Hedayat: His Work and His Wondrous World
ISBN: 9780415434034 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Featuring contributions from leading scholars of Iranian studies and / or comparative literature, this edited comprehensive and critical edited collection provides detailed scholarly analysis of Hedayat's life and work using a variety of methodological and conceptual approaches. Hedayat is the author of The Blind Owl, the most famous Persian novel both in Iran and in Europe and America. Many of his short stories are in a critical realist style and are regarded as among some of the best written in twentieth century Iran. But his most original contribution was the use of... Featuring contributions from leading scholars of Iranian studies and / or comparative literature, this edited comprehensive and critical edited col... |
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752,12 zł |
Modernism's Middle East: Journeys to Barbary
ISBN: 9780230209534 / Angielski / Twarda / 211 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dealing with the efforts of modernists to effect increasingly fraught identifications with an image of the hard, impersonal 'Arab Other' which they saw in contrast to a decadent Western culture, this book shows how this fantasy became more difficult as its popularity grew but also how it still persists.
Dealing with the efforts of modernists to effect increasingly fraught identifications with an image of the hard, impersonal 'Arab Other' which they sa...
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191,40 zł |
The Mathnawí of Jaláluʾddín Rúmí: Volume 2, English Text
ISBN: 9780906094082 / Angielski / Twarda / 419 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. MawlanaJalal al-Din Rumi's poem, the Mathnawi, is one of the best known and most influential works of Muslim mysticism. Its author was born in 1207 at Balkh in Central Asia but, as a child accompanied his father and family to settle in Qonya in Anatolia. After he had followed his father as a preacher, Rumi's mystical bent became more pronounced, particularly after the beginnning of his relationship with the dervish Shams al-Dn of Tabriz which led to non-conformist behaviour and an outpouring of lyric poetry. Rumi had his own circle of followers, the origin of the Mevlevi sufi order, whose...
MawlanaJalal al-Din Rumi's poem, the Mathnawi, is one of the best known and most influential works of Muslim mysticism. Its author was born in 1207 at...
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103,69 zł |
Modern Arabic Literature
ISBN: 9780748612901 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This introduction to modern Arabic literature, from the beginning of the 19th century to the beginning of the 21st, develops themes such as the interaction of the classical Arabic literary tradition (and, to a lesser extent, the parallel oral tradition) with literary forms derived from the West.
This introduction to modern Arabic literature, from the beginning of the 19th century to the beginning of the 21st, develops themes such as the intera...
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150,37 zł |
Naguib Mahfouz: A Western and Eastern Cage of Female Entrapment
ISBN: 9781934043615 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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461,16 zł |
Arab Writer in English: Arab Themes in a Metropolitan Language, 1908-1958
ISBN: 9781845191931 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book looks at the English writings of four twentieth-century Anglo-Arab and Arab-American writers: Ameen Rihani, Khalil Jibran, George Antonius and Edward Atiyah.
This book looks at the English writings of four twentieth-century Anglo-Arab and Arab-American writers: Ameen Rihani, Khalil Jibran, George Antonius a...
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300,30 zł |