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Ethics and Poetry in Sixth-Century Arabia
ISBN: 9781909724969 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The poetry of pre-Islamic Arabia is a neglected tessera in the mosaic of Late Antiquity. It is the only literary corpus of that time that embodies the voices of the Arabs, and is, thus, a critical complementary resource for understanding the history not only of Arabian poetry, but also of Arabian ethos and ideology. Yet, as such, it remains little exploited for reasons large among which loom the 'question of authenticity', belief in the myth of 'the empty Hijaz', and indefensible assumptions of a primitivity that precludes self-awareness and abstract thought, let alone anything truly ethical...
The poetry of pre-Islamic Arabia is a neglected tessera in the mosaic of Late Antiquity. It is the only literary corpus of that time that embodies the...
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514,26 |
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On the Mediterranean and the Nile: The Jews of Egypt
ISBN: 9780253025296 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Aimee Israel-Pelletier examines the lives of Middle Eastern Jews living in Islamic societies in this political and cultural history of the Jews of Egypt. By looking at the work of five Egyptian Jewish writers, Israel-Pelletier confronts issues of identity, exile, language, immigration, Arab nationalism, European colonialism, and discourse on the Holocaust. She illustrates that the Jews of Egypt were a fluid community connected by deep roots to the Mediterranean and the Nile. They had an unshakable sense of being Egyptian until the country turned toward the Arab East. With... Aimee Israel-Pelletier examines the lives of Middle Eastern Jews living in Islamic societies in this political and cultural history of the Jews of ... |
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328,15 |
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On the Mediterranean and the Nile: The Jews of Egypt
ISBN: 9780253031921 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Aimee Israel-Pelletier examines the lives of Middle Eastern Jews living in Islamic societies in this political and cultural history of the Jews of Egypt. By looking at the work of five Egyptian Jewish writers, Israel-Pelletier confronts issues of identity, exile, language, immigration, Arab nationalism, European colonialism, and discourse on the Holocaust. She illustrates that the Jews of Egypt were a fluid community connected by deep roots to the Mediterranean and the Nile. They had an unshakable sense of being Egyptian until the country turned toward the Arab East. With... Aimee Israel-Pelletier examines the lives of Middle Eastern Jews living in Islamic societies in this political and cultural history of the Jews of ... |
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117,50 |
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Eqbal Ahmad: Critical Outsider
ISBN: 9780231171571 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Eqbal Ahmad (1930?-1999) was a bold and original activist, journalist, and theorist who brought uncommon perspective to the rise of militant Islam, the conflict in Kashmir, the involvement of the United States in Vietnam, and the geopolitics of the Cold War. A long-time friend and intellectual collaborator of Ahmad, Stuart Schaar presents in this book previously unseen materials by and about his colleague, having traveled through the United States, India, Pakistan, western Europe, and North Africa to connect Ahmad's experiences to the major currents of modern history. Ahmad was the first...
Eqbal Ahmad (1930?-1999) was a bold and original activist, journalist, and theorist who brought uncommon perspective to the rise of militant Islam, th...
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113,42 |
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Thou Shalt Not Speak My Language
ISBN: 9780815635604 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The act of translation and bilingualism are steeped in a tension between surrender and conquest, yielding conscious and unconscious effects on language. First published in 2002, Abdelfattah Kilito's Thou Shall Not Speak My Language explores this tension in his address of the dynamics of literary influence and canon formation within the Arabic literary tradition.
The act of translation and bilingualism are steeped in a tension between surrender and conquest, yielding conscious and unconscious effects on languag...
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78,32 |
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Mihrî Hatun: Performance, Gender-Bending, and Subversion in Ottoman Intellectual History
ISBN: 9780815635376 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The early modern Ottoman poet Mihri Hatun (1460-1515) succeeded in drawing an admiring audience and considerable renown during a time when few women were accepted into the male-dominated intellectual circles. Her poetry collection is among the earliest bodies of women's writing in the Middle East and Islamicate literature, providing an exceptional vantage point on The early modern Ottoman poet Mihri Hatun (1460-1515) succeeded in drawing an admiring audience and considerable renown during a time when few wome... |
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97,90 |
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Alt 35: Focus on Egypt: African Literature Today
ISBN: 9781847011718 / Angielski / Twarda / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Creativity has flourished in Egypt, a historically important and strategically located North African country and a leading nation in the Arab world. The main focus in this volume is to examine Egyptian writers, especially those whose works have enriched African Literature through their depiction of historical, cultural and socio-political forces such as Naguib Mahfouz, Yusuf Idris, Nawal El Saadawi, Ahdaf Soueif, Tawfiq al-Hakim and Alifa Rifaat (Fatimah Rifaat). Writing in both Arabic and the English language, their thematic concerns have been as versatile as they have been controversial....
Creativity has flourished in Egypt, a historically important and strategically located North African country and a leading nation in the Arab world. T...
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360,89 |
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Mihrî Hatun: Performance, Gender-Bending, and Subversion in Ottoman Intellectual History
ISBN: 9780815635499 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The early modern Ottoman poet Mihri Hatun (1460-1515) succeeded in drawing considerable renown during a time when few women were accepted into the male-dominated intellectual circles. Her poetry collection is among the earliest bodies of women's writing in the Middle East. With this volume, Havliog-lu investigates the factors that allowed Hatun to survive and thrive.
The early modern Ottoman poet Mihri Hatun (1460-1515) succeeded in drawing considerable renown during a time when few women were accepted into the mal...
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225,30 |
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Islamophobia and the Novel
ISBN: 9780231177740 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Islamophobia and the Novel analyzes how recent works of fiction have framed and responded to the rise of anti-Muslim prejudice alongside changing concepts of cultural difference. Peter Morey offers readings of novels that show how their portrayal of difference both reflects and refutes the ideological preoccupations of the post-9/11 West.
Islamophobia and the Novel analyzes how recent works of fiction have framed and responded to the rise of anti-Muslim prejudice alongside changing conc...
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283,55 |
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Politics and Digital Literature in the Middle East: Perspectives on Online Text and Context
ISBN: 9783319768151 / Angielski / Twarda / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the 2000's, online literature in Arabic language was popular among a larger readership. This book presents the differences between online and print literature as it relates to writer-readership interaction, literary quality, language and style, critical reception, and circulation.
During the 2000's, online literature in Arabic language was popular among a larger readership. This book presents the differences between online and p...
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462,91 |
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Revelation 1-3 in Christian Arabic Commentary: John's First Vision and the Letters to the Seven Churches
ISBN: 9780823281831 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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107,70 |
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Revelation 1-3 in Christian Arabic Commentary: John's First Vision and the Letters to the Seven Churches
ISBN: 9780823281848 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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347,74 |
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Routledge Revivals: The Romance of the Rubáiyát (1959)
ISBN: 9781138210370 / Angielski / Miękka / 247 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1959, this reprint of the first edition of Edward FitzGerald's translation of the Rubaiyat is accompanied by an introduction and notes by A J Arberry, one of Britain's most distinguished Orientalist scholars. The Rubaiyat is a selection of poems written in Persian attributed to Omar Khayyam. The work will be of interest to those studying Middle Eastern Literature.
First published in 1959, this reprint of the first edition of Edward FitzGerald's translation of the Rubaiyat is accompanied by an introduction and no...
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166,48 |
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Routledge Revivals: Scheherezade (1953): Tales from the Thousand and One Nights
ISBN: 9781138215542 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1953, this translation of part of the Arabian Nights by A. J. Arberry offers four famous stories in modern idiom: Aladdin, Judar, Aboukir and Abousir, and the Amorous Goldsmith. The introduction provides a brief analysis of earlier translations of the tales and explains their value as indicators of the society in which they were written. This work will be of interest to those studying Middle-Eastern literature and history.
First published in 1953, this translation of part of the Arabian Nights by A. J. Arberry offers four famous stories in modern idiom: Aladdin, Judar, A...
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186,06 |
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Routledge Revivals: Classical Persian Literature (1958)
ISBN: 9781138211568 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1958, this work by one of Britain's most celebrated Orientalist scholars, tells the story of the rebirth of national literature in Persia after the fall of the Sá¾±sá¾±nian empire in the seventh century. It traces the course of this literature's development and full maturity from the ninth century to the end of the fifteenth century and looks at a number of important writers including the Saljá¿¡q poets, Rá¿¡má¿ , á¿ á¾±fiz and Já¾±má¿ . This work will be of interest to those studying Persian and Middle-Eastern literature and history.
First published in 1958, this work by one of Britain's most celebrated Orientalist scholars, tells the story of the rebirth of national literature in ...
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195,86 |
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City of Beginnings: Poetic Modernism in Beirut
ISBN: 9780691182186 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How poetic modernism shaped Arabic intellectual debates in the twentieth century and beyondCity of Beginnings is an exploration of modernism in Arabic poetry, a movement that emerged in Beirut during the 1950s and became the most influential and controversial Arabic literary development of the twentieth century. Robyn Creswell introduces Englis
How poetic modernism shaped Arabic intellectual debates in the twentieth century and beyondCity of Beginnings is an exploration of modernism in Arabic...
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235,10 |
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Routledge Revivals: Oriental Essays (1960): Portraits of Seven Scholars
ISBN: 9781138210950 / Angielski / Miękka / 257 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1960, this work describes the lives and labours of six great scholars - Simon Ockley, Sir William Jones, E. W. Lane, E. H. Palmer, E.G. Browne and R. A Nicholson. These men were devoted to building a bridge between the peoples and cultures of Europe and Asia. To these biographical essays, Arberry has added a short autobiography and an eloquent plea for the further encouragement of Oriental studies. This book will be of interest to those studying Middle-Eastern studies and the history of Orientalist study.
First published in 1960, this work describes the lives and labours of six great scholars - Simon Ockley, Sir William Jones, E. W. Lane, E. H. Palmer, ...
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166,48 |
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Browning Upon Arabia: A Moveable East
ISBN: 9783319926476 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Browning Upon Arabia charts Robert Browning's early and enduring engagement with the East, particularly the Arab East.
Browning Upon Arabia charts Robert Browning's early and enduring engagement with the East, particularly the Arab East.
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322,01 |
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Cultural Journeys Into the Arab World: A Literary Anthology
ISBN: 9781438471143 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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189,38 |
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Muslims on the Volga in the Viking Age: In the Footsteps of Ibn Fadlan
ISBN: 9781784539337 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the year 922 a remarkable encounter took place on the wide banks of the Middle Volga. The eyewitness account of Ibn Fadlan, an emissary to the leader of the Bulgars from the far-distant caliphate in Baghdad, vividly describes his meeting with the forest steppe peoples of the region, whom the 'Abbasid envoy famously called 'the Great Unwashed'. He recounts a ship burial involving Viking funerary rites. This innovative interdisciplinary volume explores the wider cultural and political contexts behind the unique testimony of Ibn Fadlan. We have no other detailed written evidence for the...
In the year 922 a remarkable encounter took place on the wide banks of the Middle Volga. The eyewitness account of Ibn Fadlan, an emissary to the lead...
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440,80 |
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