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The Diwans of 'Abid Ibn Al-Abras of Asad and 'Amir Ibn At-Tufail of 'Amir Ibn Sa'sa'ah
ISBN: 9780906094136 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Poems of Abid and Amir are found in other works but the 11th-century MS in the British Library on which this edition is based is unique. Both are tribal poets of the Jahiliyyah, the period before Islam. Abid ibn al-Abras, regarded as some of the best pre-Islamic poets, was contemporary with the greatest of them all, Imru' al-Qais of Kindah, and his poems reflect the events of the first half of the 6th century, such as the attempt and ultimate failure of the Princes of Kindah to impose their hegemony on the nomads of northern Arabia, among them Abid's tribe, the Bani Asad, who slew Imru al...
Poems of Abid and Amir are found in other works but the 11th-century MS in the British Library on which this edition is based is unique. Both are trib...
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The Makarim Al-Akhlaq
ISBN: 9780906094112 / Angielski / Twarda / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The historian Khvandmir (d. 1534-5) came from an educated family of Herat. As a young man he received encouragement and patronage from the cultivated Amir and administrator, 'Alishir Nava'i, famous also as a great Catagay poet. The Makarim al-Akhlaq, a panegyric biography, was incomplete at Navai's death in 1501 and was dedicated to the Timurid King, Sultan Husain Mirza. It contains sections on its subject's life, literary and charitable works, and noble qualities, amongst other things. Written in the style favoured by Khvandmir, it contains information on the social life of the period. The...
The historian Khvandmir (d. 1534-5) came from an educated family of Herat. As a young man he received encouragement and patronage from the cultivated ...
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Kitab Al-Tashbihat of Ibn ABI 'Aun: The Book of Similes
ISBN: 9780718902193 / Angielski / Twarda / 508 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The author came from a family of secretaries, poets and men of letters resident in Iraq and involved in the service of the Abbasid Caliphate at Baghdad in the 9th and 10th centuries. He himself was hanged for heresy in AD934. His Book of Similes, however, is not a controversial work: it is a compilation of similes used by Arabic poets, arranged partly by topic and partly by author. It is the only work of the kind from its period and with its interest in originality and creative imagination, contributed something new to the development of Arab literacy criticism.
The author came from a family of secretaries, poets and men of letters resident in Iraq and involved in the service of the Abbasid Caliphate at Baghda...
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Identification and Identity in Classical Arab Poetry
ISBN: 9780906094389 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In early Arabic poetry, poets mostly speak in the first person - a point which sets their tradition apart from most other civilisations. This study investigates the characteristic poetic roles found in the works of thirty seven poets dating from the pre-Islamic to the Abbasid period, to which are added specimens of Spanish Arabic lyric poetry and the popular poetry of Baghdad.
In early Arabic poetry, poets mostly speak in the first person - a point which sets their tradition apart from most other civilisations. This study in...
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538,76 |
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Popular Culture in the Middle East and North Africa: A Postcolonial Outlook
ISBN: 9780415509725 / Angielski / Twarda / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the body and the production process of popular culture in, and on, the Middle East and North Africa, Turkey, and Iran in the first decade of the 21st century, and up to the current historical moment. Essays consider gender, racial, political, and cultural issues in film, cartoons, music, dance, photo-tattoos, graphic novels, fiction, and advertisements. Contributors to the volume span an array of specializations ranging across literary, postcolonial, gender, media, and Middle Eastern studies and contextualize their views within a larger historical and... This book explores the body and the production process of popular culture in, and on, the Middle East and North Africa, Turkey, and Iran in the fir... |
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832,62 |
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Orientalism Versus Occidentalism Literary and Cultural Imaging Between France and Iran Since the Islamic Revolution
ISBN: 9781848859784 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At a time when Iran is represented in the French media as a rogue state obsessed with its nuclear program, and when France is portrayed in the Iranian media as a decadent and imperialist country, this book highlights the role of cultural representations and perceptions. Here, Laetitia Nanquette examines the functions, processes and mechanisms of stereotyping and imagining the ""other"" that have pervaded the literary traditions of France and Iran when writing about each other. She furthermore analyses Franco-Iranian relations, exploring the literary traditions of this relationship, the ways...
At a time when Iran is represented in the French media as a rogue state obsessed with its nuclear program, and when France is portrayed in the Iranian...
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618,66 |
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Violence and Gender in the New Europe: Islam in German Culture
ISBN: 9781137007087 / Angielski / Twarda / 241 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Weber contributes to the ongoing scholarly discussion about Islam in the West, demonstrating how current thinking about gender violence prohibits the intellectual inquiry necessary to act against such violence, and analyzes ways in which Muslim women participate in the public sphere by thematizing violence in literature, art, and media.
Weber contributes to the ongoing scholarly discussion about Islam in the West, demonstrating how current thinking about gender violence prohibits the ...
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201,24 |
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Poets From a War Torn World: A Critical Analysis of Modern Hebrew and Arabic Poetry
ISBN: 9781612044729 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first two essays in Poets from a War Torn World are about mysticism in modern Arabic poetry. The second two essays are about literary philosophy in modern Hebrew poetry. All four essays focus on the 1960s and 1970s, a time when poets hoped that through their writings they could help bring peace to a war torn Middle East. Reuven Snir's introduction is in clear simple language. It provides background knowledge that will assist the general reader who has no previous knowledge of specifically Arabic or Hebrew poetry. Otherwise, the introduction and essays are of interest to scholars, students...
The first two essays in Poets from a War Torn World are about mysticism in modern Arabic poetry. The second two essays are about literary philosophy i...
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Das Konzept »Islam«: Eine Diskurslinguistische Untersuchung
ISBN: 9783110309263 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Der offentlichen Diskussion um den Islam liegt ein Konzept 'Islam' zugrunde, das im Diskurs gespiegelt wird und zugleich dort auch entsteht. Die vorliegende Studie untersucht diesen Entstehungsprozess und zeigt, dass Bedeutung nicht nur an einzelne Ausdrucke geknupft, sondern auch ein flachiges Phanomen ist. Dabei bewegt sich der analysierende Blick graduell gestuft auf die Texte (Zeitungen, Stellungnahmen, Abhandlungen usw.) zu: Der zu untersuchende Textausschnitt wird immer kleiner gewahlt, um ihn bei jedem Schritt genauer betrachten zu konnen. Der offentlichen Diskussion um den Islam liegt ein Konzept 'Islam' zugrunde, das im Diskurs gespiegelt wird und zugleich dort auch entsteht. Die vo... |
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Moroccan Noir: Police, Crime, and Politics in Popular Culture
ISBN: 9780253010575 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Facing rising demands for human rights and the rule of law, the Moroccan state fostered new mass media and cultivated more positive images of the police, once the symbol of state repression, reinventing the relationship between citizen and state for a new era. Jonathan Smolin examines popular culture and mass media to understand the changing nature of authoritarianism in Morocco over the past two decades. Using neglected Arabic sources including crime tabloids, television movies, true-crime journalism, and police advertising, Smolin sheds new light on politics and popular culture in the... Facing rising demands for human rights and the rule of law, the Moroccan state fostered new mass media and cultivated more positive images of the p... |
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328,15 |
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Moroccan Noir: Police, Crime, and Politics in Popular Culture
ISBN: 9780253010650 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Facing rising demands for human rights and the rule of law, the Moroccan state fostered new mass media and cultivated more positive images of the police, once the symbol of state repression, reinventing the relationship between citizen and state for a new era. Jonathan Smolin examines popular culture and mass media to understand the changing nature of authoritarianism in Morocco over the past two decades. Using neglected Arabic sources including crime tabloids, television movies, true-crime journalism, and police advertising, Smolin sheds new light on politics and popular culture in the... Facing rising demands for human rights and the rule of law, the Moroccan state fostered new mass media and cultivated more positive images of the p... |
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117,50 |
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'Anticipating' the 2011 Arab Uprisings: Revolutionary Literatures and Political Geographies
ISBN: 9781137294722 / Angielski / Twarda / 111 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This Palgrave Pivot volume explores an exciting range of powerful novels and memoirs from Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Syria that reveal political geographies of injustice and popular discontent thus 'anticipating' or imaginatively envisioning as well as participating in some of the major current upheavals in their particular national contexts.
This Palgrave Pivot volume explores an exciting range of powerful novels and memoirs from Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Syria that reveal political geogr...
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201,24 |
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Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature
ISBN: 9780415571135 / Angielski / Miękka / 876 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature is an authoritative reference source on the most important authors, works, genres, key terms, concepts and issues in the Arabic literary tradition. The Encyclopedia covers the classical (pre-Islamic to 1258), transitional (1258-1798) and modern periods within a single work. In over 1300 separately-authored entries, many of the world's experts combine current research with traditional study to provide authoritative analysis and commentary on a wide range of areas. These include major authors, important works, and a variety of literary...
The Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature is an authoritative reference source on the most important authors, works, genres, key terms, concepts ...
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The Oral and the Written in Early Islam
ISBN: 9780415597074 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Montgomery and Schoeler gives a reasoned, informed and comprehensive overview of how the written and the spoken interacted, diverged and received cultural articulation among the Muslim societies of the first two centuries of the Hijra.
Montgomery and Schoeler gives a reasoned, informed and comprehensive overview of how the written and the spoken interacted, diverged and received cult...
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Post-War Anglophone Lebanese Fiction: Home Matters in the Diaspora
ISBN: 9780748643424 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the phenomenon of the post-civil war Anglophone Lebanese fictional narrative. The texts chosen for study have been produced in, and are substantially about, life in exile. They therefore deal not only with the brutal civil strife in Lebanon (1975-1990) but with one of its crucial and long-standing by-products: expatriation. Syrine Hout shows how these texts characterise a distinctly new literary and cultural trend and have founded an Anglophone Lebanese diasporic literature.The authors discussed in the book are Rabih Alameddine, Tony Hanania, Rawi Hage, Nada Awar Jarra,...
This book examines the phenomenon of the post-civil war Anglophone Lebanese fictional narrative. The texts chosen for study have been produced in, and...
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Politics of Nostalgia in the Arabic Novel: Nation-State, Modernity and Tradition
ISBN: 9780748655694 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Shortlisted for the Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2014
Uncovers the politics of nostalgia and madness inherent in the Arabic novel. The Arabic novel has taken shape in the intercultural networks of exchange between East and West, past and present. Wen-chin Ouyang shows how this has created a politics of nostalgia which can be traced to discourses on aesthetics, ethics and politics relevant to cultural and literary transformations of the Arabic speaking world in the 19th and 20th centuries. She reveals nostalgia and madness as the tropes through which the Arabic novel writes its own story of... Shortlisted for the Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2014
Uncovers the politics of nostalgia and madness inherent in the Arabic novel. The Arabic novel has... |
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A Sea of Languages: Rethinking the Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History
ISBN: 9780802098689 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Medieval European literature was once thought to have been isolationist in its nature, but recent scholarship has revealed the ways in which Spanish and Italian authors - including Cervantes and Marco Polo - were influenced by Arabic poetry, music, and philosophy. A Sea of Languages brings together some of the most influential scholars working in Muslim-Christian-Jewish cultural communications today to discuss the convergence of the literary, social, and economic histories of the medieval Mediterranean. This volume takes as a starting point Maria Rosa Menocal's... Medieval European literature was once thought to have been isolationist in its nature, but recent scholarship has revealed the ways in which Spanis... |
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Alexandrian Cosmopolitanism: An Archive
ISBN: 9780823251766 / Angielski / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Interrogating how Alexandria became enshrined as the exemplary cosmopolitan space in the Middle East, this book mounts a radical critique of Eurocentric conceptions of cosmopolitanism. The dominant account of Alexandrian cosmopolitanism elevates things European in the city's culture and simultaneously places things Egyptian under the sign of decline. The book goes beyond this civilization/barbarism binary to trace other modes of intercultural solidarity. Halim presents a comparative study of literary representations, addressing poetry, fiction, guidebooks, and operettas, among other genres....
Interrogating how Alexandria became enshrined as the exemplary cosmopolitan space in the Middle East, this book mounts a radical critique of Eurocentr...
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313,46 |
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Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said's Orientalism
ISBN: 9781591024842 / Angielski / Twarda / 556 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first systematic critique of Edward Said's influential work, "Orientalism," a book that for almost three decades has received wide acclaim, voluminous commentary, and translation into more than fifteen languages. Said's main thesis was that the Western image of the East was heavily biased by colonialist attitudes, racism, and more than two centuries of political exploitation. Although Said's critique was controversial, the impact of his ideas has been a pervasive rethinking of Western perceptions of Eastern cultures, plus a tendency to view all scholarship in Oriental Studies as...
This is the first systematic critique of Edward Said's influential work, "Orientalism," a book that for almost three decades has received wide acclaim...
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153,70 |
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The Essential Nawal El Saadawi: A Reader
ISBN: 9781848133358 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The writing of Nawal el Saadawi is essential. Her dissident voice has consistently critiqued neo-imperialist international politics coupled with the oppression of women both in her native Egypt and in the world beyond. This book, the first volume in "Zed's Essential Feminists" series, gathers a selection of the whole range of Saadawi's writing together in one volume for the first time. From fiction -- novellas and short stories -- to essays on politics, culture, religion and sex, from extensive interviews to her work as a dramatist, from poetry to selections of her travel writing, this book...
The writing of Nawal el Saadawi is essential. Her dissident voice has consistently critiqued neo-imperialist international politics coupled with the o...
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