The Qur'an and the Aesthetics of Premodern Arabic Prose

Sarah R Bin Tyeer

• Paperback | Engels | Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
• This book approaches the Qur'an as a primary source for delineating the definition of ugliness, and by extension beauty, and in turn establishing mean... Lees meer

Popular Fiction, Translation and the Nahda in Egypt

Samah Selim

• Hardcover | Engels | Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
• This book is a critical study of the translation and adaptation of popular fiction into Arabic at the turn of the twentieth century. It examines the w... Lees meer

Recasting American and Persian Literatures

Amirhossein Vafa

• Paperback | Engels | Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
• Reading literary and cinematic events between and beyond American and Persian literatures, this book questions the dominant geography of the East-West... Lees meer

New Literature and Philosophy of the Middle East

J Mohaghegh

• Hardcover | Engels | Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
• Mohaghegh tracks the idea of 'chaos' into the contemporary philosophical and cultural imagination of the postcolonial world, exploring its vital role ... Lees meer

Global Perspectives on Orhan Pamuk

• Paperback | Engels | Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
• Explores existential and political themes in Orhan Pamuk's work and investigates the apparent contradictions in an arena where Islam and democracy are... Lees meer

Literature, Gender, and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Egypt

M Hatem

• Hardcover | Engels | Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
• This book examines how the process of nation-building in Egypt helped transform Egypt from an Ottoman province to an Arabic speaking national communit... Lees meer

Gender, Sex, and the City

R Vanita

• Paperback | Engels | Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
• Explores the urban, cosmopolitan sensibilities of Urdu poetry written in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Lucknow. Ruth Vanita an... Lees meer

Islam in the Eastern African Novel

E Mirmotahari

• Hardcover | Engels | Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
• This study of the sub-Saharan African novel interprets representations of Islam as a central organising presence that generates new conceptual questio... Lees meer

Egyptian Colloquial Poetry in the Modern Arabic Canon

N Radwan

• Paperback | Engels | Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
• Noha Radwan offers the first book-length study of the emergence, context, and development of modern Egyptian colloquial poetry, recently used as a veh... Lees meer

Poetics and Politics of Iran's National Epic, the Sh?hn?meh

M Omidsalar

• Paperback | Engels | Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
• This book considers some of the Western interpretations of The Shahnameh - Iran's national epic, and argues that these interpretations are not only me... Lees meer

Catastrophe and Exile in the Modern Palestinian Imagination

I Saloul

• Hardcover | Engels | Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
• Catastrophe and Exile in the Modern Palestinian Imagination explores the cultural memory of al-Nakba (1948 Israeli independence, or The Catastrophe as... Lees meer

The Poetics of the Obscene in Premodern Arabic Poetry

S Antoon

• Hardcover | Engels | Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
• The book is the first study of the 10th century Iraqi poet Ibn al-Hajjaj who popularized a new genre of obscene and scatological parody (sukhf) and is... Lees meer

Popular Fiction, Translation and the Nahda in Egypt

Samah Selim

• Paperback | Engels | Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
• This book is a critical study of the translation and adaptation of popular fiction into Arabic at the turn of the twentieth century. It examines the w... Lees meer

Feminism and Avant-Garde Aesthetics in the Levantine Novel

K Hanna

• Hardcover | Engels | Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
• Writing in response to war and national crisis, al-Samm?n, Khal?feh, Barak?t, and others introduced into the Arabic literary canon aesthetic forms cap... Lees meer

Egyptian Colloquial Poetry in the Modern Arabic Canon

N Radwan

• Hardcover | Engels | Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
• Noha Radwan offers the first book-length study of the emergence, context, and development of modern Egyptian colloquial poetry, recently used as a veh... Lees meer

Islam, Migrancy, and Hospitality in Europe

M Yegenoglu

• Paperback | Engels | Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
• This book cuts across important debates in cultural studies, literary criticism, politics, sociology, and anthropology. Meyda Yegenoglu brings togethe... Lees meer

The Qur'an and the Aesthetics of Premodern Arabic Prose

Sarah R. Bin Tyeer

• Hardcover | Engels | Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
• This book approaches the Qur'an as a primary source for delineating the definition of ugliness, and by extension beauty, and in turn establishing mean... Lees meer

The Poetics of the Obscene in Premodern Arabic Poetry

S Antoon

• Paperback | Engels | Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
• The book is the first study of the 10th century Iraqi poet Ibn al-Hajjaj who popularized a new genre of obscene and scatological parody (sukhf) and is... Lees meer

Poetics and Politics of Iran's National Epic, the Sh?hn?meh

M Omidsalar

• Hardcover | Engels | Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
• This book considers some of the Western interpretations of The Shahnameh - Iran's national epic, and argues that these interpretations are not only me... Lees meer

Urban Space in Contemporary Egyptian Literature

M Naaman

• Paperback | Engels | Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
• An examination of how the space of the downtown served dual purposes as both a symbol of colonial influence and capital in Egypt, as well as a staging... Lees meer

Urdu Literary Culture

M Farooqi

• Hardcover | Engels | Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
• Urdu Literary Culture examines the impact of political circumstances on vernacular (Urdu) literary culture through an in-depth study of the writings o... Lees meer

Recasting American and Persian Literatures

Amirhossein Vafa

• Hardcover | Engels | Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
• Reading literary and cinematic events between and beyond American and Persian literatures, this book questions the dominant geography of the East-West... Lees meer

Catastrophe and Exile in the Modern Palestinian Imagination

I Saloul

• Paperback | Engels | Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
• Catastrophe and Exile in the Modern Palestinian Imagination explores the cultural memory of al-Nakba (1948 Israeli independence, or The Catastrophe as... Lees meer

Post-Arab Spring Narratives

Abida Younas

• Hardcover | Engels | Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
• This book looks at eight post Arab Spring novels in the context of Gilles Deleuze's and Félix Guattari's theory of minor literature. Ahdaf Soueif, His... Lees meer