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Symbolic Cities in Caribbean Literature
ISBN: 9780230612181 / Angielski / Twarda / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Utilizing cross-cultural strands, this comparative study analyzes Caribbean literary representations of magic and invisible cities reworking the notion of the city as both instituted social space and imaginary community.
Utilizing cross-cultural strands, this comparative study analyzes Caribbean literary representations of magic and invisible cities reworking the notio...
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200,77 |
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The Legacy of the Kitāb: Sībawayhi's Analytical Methods Within the Context of the Arabic Grammatical Theory
ISBN: 9789004168138 / Angielski / Twarda / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a comprehensive study of the Kitāb of Sībawayhi (d. 180/796), undoubtedly the most authoritative work in the long history of Arabic grammar. It carefully examines the methodological concepts and methods that underline Sībawayhi's analysis of Arabic and the way in which these methods evolved at the hands of later grammarians. Placing the Kitāb within the context of early Arabic philological activity, this book analyzes a wide range of its passages and demonstrates the coherency of its author's system of grammatical analysis and the interrelatedness of his...
This book is a comprehensive study of the Kitāb of Sībawayhi (d. 180/796), undoubtedly the most authoritative work in the long history of Ar...
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797,00 |
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The Mute Immortals Speak: Pre-Islamic Poetry and Poetics of Ritual
ISBN: 9780801427640 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A body of Bedouin oral poetry which was collected in the second or third Islamic century, the pre-Islamic qasidah, or ode, stands with the Qur'an as a twin foundation of Arabo-Islamic literary culture. Throughout the rich fifteen-hundred-year history of classical Arabic literature, the qasidah served as profane anti-text to the sacred text of the Qur'an. While recognizing the esteem in which Arabs have traditionally held this poetry of the pagan past, modern critics in both East and West have yet to formulate a poetics that would provide the means to analyze and evaluate the qasidah.... A body of Bedouin oral poetry which was collected in the second or third Islamic century, the pre-Islamic qasidah, or ode, stands with the Qur'an a... |
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252,08 |
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Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes
ISBN: 9780801431746 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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252,08 |
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The Hidden Origins of Islam: New Research Into Its Early History
ISBN: 9781591026341 / Angielski / Twarda / 405 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on the premise that reliable history can only be written on the basis of sources that are contemporary with the events described, the contributors to this in-depth investigation present research that reveals the obscure origins of Islam in a completely new light.
Based on the premise that reliable history can only be written on the basis of sources that are contemporary with the events described, the contributo...
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166,77 |
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Interpreting Al-Tha'labi's Tales of the Prophets: Temptation, Responsibility and Loss
ISBN: 9780415366632 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Al-Tha'labi was a renowned Qur'anic scholar of the fifth/eleventh century, and his 'Ara'is al-majalis is arguably the finest and most widely consulted example of the Islamic qisas al-anbiya' genre. Drawing on primary Arabic sources, Klar applies modern critical methods in order to explore the nature of al-Tha'labi's 'Ara'is al-majalis within its historical and literary context, and thereby produces a compelling examination of the stories of Noah, Job, Saul and David as portrayed in the key historiographical and folkloric texts of the medieval Islamic period. Via a close... Al-Tha'labi was a renowned Qur'anic scholar of the fifth/eleventh century, and his 'Ara'is al-majalis is arguably the finest and most widely consul... |
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727,18 |
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In Tangier
ISBN: 9781846590504 / Angielski / Miękka / 3 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The sights and sounds of 70's Tangier are brought vividly to life, as are the larger-than-life characters of extraordinary men, through ordinary everyday events.
The sights and sounds of 70's Tangier are brought vividly to life, as are the larger-than-life characters of extraordinary men, through ordinary every...
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228,06 |
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Medieval Aspects of Renaissance Learning
ISBN: 9780231079501 / Angielski / Twarda / 195 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study charts the continuing influence of medieval scholastic thought in Renaissance civilization. In the three essays, Paul Oskar Kristellar illustrates the way medieval ideas and issues remained active in Renaissance philosophy, theology, literature and in education, both secular and religious. In his first essay, Kristeller explains the conflicts in various Renaissance literatures - between rigorous scholastic writings and eloquent humanist ones, between texts written in Latin and those in the vernacular - by appealing to a notion of literary genre which aligns different types of text...
This study charts the continuing influence of medieval scholastic thought in Renaissance civilization. In the three essays, Paul Oskar Kristellar illu...
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387,83 |
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Turkish Literature: A Bio-Bibliographical Survey. Section III: Moslim Central-Asian Turkish Literature. Part I: Authors
ISBN: 9789004009493 / Angielski / Twarda / 924 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Being in the Main a list of 'Chaghatayan', Authors and Works in 'Chagatay', as Registered in Prof. M.F. Koprulu's Article 'Cagatay edebiyati', Ia, Vol. III (270 ff.). With some Additions (Navā'īāna, however, excepted)
Being in the Main a list of 'Chaghatayan', Authors and Works in 'Chagatay', as Registered in Prof. M.F. Koprulu's Article 'Cagatay edebiyati', Ia, Vol...
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Early Islamic Poetry and Poetics: The Formation of the Classical Islamic World
ISBN: 9780860787204 / Angielski / Twarda / 466 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume brings together a set of key studies on classical Arabic poetry (ca. 500-1000 C.E.), published over the last thirty-five years; the individual articles each deal with a different approach, period, genre, or theme. The major focus is on new interpretations of the form and function of the pre-eminent classical poetic genre, the polythematic qasida, or Arabic ode, particularly explorations of its ritual, ceremonial and performance dimensions. Other articles present the typology and genre characteristics of the short monothematic forms, especially the lyrical ghazal and the wine-poem....
This volume brings together a set of key studies on classical Arabic poetry (ca. 500-1000 C.E.), published over the last thirty-five years; the indivi...
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1260,44 |
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The Amos Oz Reader
ISBN: 9780156035668 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Reader draws on Oz s entire body of work, loosely grouped into four themes: the kibbutz, the city of Jerusalem, the idea of a "promised land," and his own life story. Included are excerpts from his celebrated novels, among them Where the Jackals Howl, A Perfect Peace, My Michael, Fima, Black Box, and To Know a Woman. Nonfiction is represented by selections from Under This Blazing Light, The Slopes of Lebanon, In the Land of Israel, and Oz s masterpiece, A Tale of Love and Darkness. Robert Alter, a noted Hebrew scholar and translator, has provided an...
The Reader draws on Oz s entire body of work, loosely grouped into four themes: the kibbutz, the city of Jerusalem, the idea of a "promised lan...
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87,23 |
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Islam on the Street: Religion in Modern Arabic Literature
ISBN: 9780742562066 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Islam on the Street deals with the popular side of Islam, as described not only in tracts and manuals written by Sufi shaykhs and Islamist thinkers from among the more militant groups in Islam, but also in writings by other, more secular thinkers who have also influenced public opinion. A scholar of Arabic literature, Muhsin al-Musawi explains the growing rift that has occurred between the secular intellectual--the forerunner of Arab and Islamic modernity since the late nineteenth century--and the upsurge of Islamic fervor in the street, at the grassroots level, and what these secular...
Islam on the Street deals with the popular side of Islam, as described not only in tracts and manuals written by Sufi shaykhs and Islamist thinkers fr...
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567,20 |
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The Quest for a Lost Identity: Palestinian Fiction in Israel
ISBN: 9783447057684 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Arabic fiction by Palestinian writers in Israel underwent a rebirth with the establishment of the State in 1948 - an event affecting not only the land that had been Palestine, but the entire region. In The Quest for a Lost Identity, Mahmud Ghanayim probes in considerable detail this creative process over the last half-century. Adopting a strictly literary treatment of the new situation, he reconstructs the various stages in the evolution of Palestinian literature and its difficult existence under martial law. Perusing works by such writers as Hanna Ibrahim, Atallah Mansur, Muhammad ?Ali-...
Arabic fiction by Palestinian writers in Israel underwent a rebirth with the establishment of the State in 1948 - an event affecting not only the land...
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180,43 |
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Reading Khaled Hosseini
ISBN: 9780313355110 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the most important emerging novelists today, Khaled Hosseini has enjoyed critical success and popular accolades. His first book, "The Kite Runner," was voted Reading Group Book of the Year in 2006 and 2007 and was made into a major motion picture. His second book, "A Thousand Splendid Suns," seems destined to follow the same path. Written for book club members and students, this guide overviews Hosseini's works, themes, characters, and contexts and relates his fiction to current events and popular culture. Sidebars present interesting information, and chapters contain questions to... One of the most important emerging novelists today, Khaled Hosseini has enjoyed critical success and popular accolades. His first book, "The Kite R... |
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204,12 |
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Arab Voices in Diaspora : Critical Perspectives on Anglophone Arab Literature
ISBN: 9789042027183 / Angielski / Twarda / 491 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Arab Voices in Diaspora offers a wide-ranging overview and an insightful study of the field of anglophone Arab literature produced across the world. The first of its kind, it chronicles the development of this literature from its inception at the turn of the past century until the post 9/11 era. The book sheds light not only on the historical but also on the cultural and aesthetic value of this literary production, which has so far received little scholarly attention. It also seeks to place anglophone Arab literary works within the larger nomenclature of postcolonial, emerging, and ethnic...
Arab Voices in Diaspora offers a wide-ranging overview and an insightful study of the field of anglophone Arab literature produced across the world. T...
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623,19 |
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Paradoxical Citizenship: Essays on Edward Said
ISBN: 9780739132586 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a collection of intriguing essays on the work of Edward Said, internationally-recognized scholars pay homage to the late critic by addressing many aspects of his oeuvre, including his breakthrough Orientalism, the role of the intellectual, the Question of Palestine, and finally his dramatic memoir, Out of Place. This volume is a useful contribution for classroom use, as well as recreational reading for those interested in the work of this controversial thinker.
In a collection of intriguing essays on the work of Edward Said, internationally-recognized scholars pay homage to the late critic by addressing many ...
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218,16 |
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Making the Great Book of Songs: Compilation and the Author's Craft in Abû I-Faraj Al-Isbahânî's Kitâb Al-Aghânî
ISBN: 9780415595841 / Angielski / Miękka / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first systematic literary study of one of the masterpieces of classical Arabic literature, the fourth/tenth century Kitab al-aghani (The Book of Songs) by Abu I-Faraj al-Isbahani. Until now the twenty-four volume Book of Songs has been regarded as a rather chaotic but priceless mine of information about classical Arabic music, literature and culture. This book approaches it as a work of literature in its own right, with its own internal logic and coherence. The study also consistently integrates the musical component into the analysis and proposes a...
This is the first systematic literary study of one of the masterpieces of classical Arabic literature, the fourth/tenth century Kitab al-aghani
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271,44 |
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Literature, Journalism and the Avant-Garde: Intersection in Egypt
ISBN: 9780415597401 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Elisabeth Kendall explores the role of journalism in Egypt in effecting and promoting the development of modern Arabic literature from its inception in the mid-19th century to the present day. She focuses on the independent, frequently dissident journals that were a hotbed of innovative literary activity.
Elisabeth Kendall explores the role of journalism in Egypt in effecting and promoting the development of modern Arabic literature from its inception i...
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145,38 |
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Arabic Poetry: Trajectories of Modernity and Tradition
ISBN: 9780415595919 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the late 1940's, Arabic poetry has spoken for an Arab conscience, as much as it has debated positions and ideologies, nationally and worldwide. This book tackles issues of modernity and tradition in Arabic poetry as manifested in poetic texts and criticism by poets and participants in transformation and change.
Since the late 1940's, Arabic poetry has spoken for an Arab conscience, as much as it has debated positions and ideologies, nationally and worldwide. ...
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Nationalism, Islam and World Literature: Sites of Confluence in the Writings of Mahmud Al-Mas'adi
ISBN: 9780415597067 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An examination of the writer and politician Mahmud al-Mis'adi, a figure of prime importance in the development of North African literature and cultural politics, this book covers both his essays and fiction, written between the 1930s and 1990s. It also examines Arabic literature and its relationship to the West.
An examination of the writer and politician Mahmud al-Mis'adi, a figure of prime importance in the development of North African literature and cultura...
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