Once Upon The Orient Wave

Author : Eid Abdallah Dahiyat
Publisher : Hesperus Press
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781780941042

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Once Upon the Orient Wave by Eid Abdallah Dahiyat Pdf

In an unusual view of one of the English language's greatest writers, an Arab scholar analyzes the oriental influences on Milton's work, and Milton's own influence on Arab writers and critics John Milton's great poems, Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, are among the greatest pieces of writing in the English language. Like other writers of his time, Milton had only a sketchy idea of Islam and the Arab world, from travelers and linguists who had made the arduous journey to and from the Middle East. But buried in his works are signs that Milton had absorbed ideas and influences from Islam and Arab culture. Professor Dahiyat shows how from the Middle Ages, partly as an attempt to counteract Islam with Christianity, a wide range of writers and researchers spoke, read, and wrote Arabic and published books in the earliest days of printing which Milton could have read. He then shows how many different references there are to the Orient and Islam in Milton's writings, and discusses the later response of Arab writers and scholars to Milton's major works.

Author : Ben Pestell,Pietra Palazzolo,Leon Burnett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-20
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781134862498

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Translating Myth by Ben Pestell,Pietra Palazzolo,Leon Burnett Pdf

Ever since Odysseus heard tales of his own exploits being retold among strangers, audiences and readers have been alive to the complications and questions arising from the translation of myth. How are myths taken and carried over into new languages, new civilizations, or new media? An international group of scholars is gathered in this volume to present diverse but connected case studies which address the artistic and political implications of the changing condition of myth – this most primal and malleable of forms. ‘Translation’ is treated broadly to encompass not only literary translation, but also the transfer of myth across cultures and epochs. In an age when the spiritual world is in crisis, Translating Myth constitutes a timely exploration of myth’s endurance, and represents a consolidation of the status of myth studies as a discipline in its own right.

Author : Islam Issa
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317095927

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Milton in the Arab-Muslim World by Islam Issa Pdf

The first full-length study of the reception of John Milton’s (1608-74) writings in the Arab-Muslim world, this book examines the responses of Arab-Muslim readers to Milton’s works, and in particular, to his epic poem: Paradise Lost. It contributes to knowledge of the history, development, and ways in which early modern writings are read and understood by Muslims. By mapping the literary and more broadly cultural consequences of the censure, translation and abridgement of Milton’s works in the Arab-Muslim world, this book analyses the diverse ways in which Arab-Muslims read and understand a range of literary and religious aspects of Milton’s writing in light of cultural, theological, socio-political, linguistic and translational issues. After providing an overview of the presence of Milton and his works in the Arab world, each chapter sheds light on how cultural and translational issues shape the ways in which Arab-Muslim readers perceive and understand the characters and motifs of Paradise Lost. Chapters outline the ways in which the figures are currently understood in Milton scholarship, before exploring how they fit into the narrative drama and theology of the poem, and their position in Islamic creed and Arab-Muslim culture. Concurrently, each chapter examines the poem’s subject matter in detail, placing particular emphasis on matters of linguistic, theological and cultural translation and accommodation. Chapter conclusions not only summarise the patterns and potentialities of reception, but point towards the practical functions of Arab-Muslim responses to Milton’s writing and their contribution to the formation of social ideas.

Author : Nabil Matar
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780231527361

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Henry Stubbe and the Beginnings of Islam by Nabil Matar Pdf

Henry Stubbe (1632–1676) was an extraordinary English scholar who challenged his contemporaries by writing about Islam as a monotheistic revelation in continuity with Judaism and Christianity. His major work, The Originall & Progress of Mahometanism, was the first English text to document the Prophet Muhammad's life positively, celebrate the Qur'an as a divine revelation, and praise the Muslim toleration of Christians, undermining a long legacy of European prejudice and hostility. Nabil Matar, a leading scholar of Islamic-British relations, standardizes Stubbe's text and situates it within England's theological and intellectual climate in the seventeenth century. He shows how, to draw a historical portrait of Muhammad, Stubbe embraced travelogues, Latin commentaries, studies on Jewish customs and Scripture, and, most important, Arabic chronicles, many written by medieval Christian Arabs who had lived in the midst of the Islamic polity. No European writer before or for a long time after Stubbe produced anything similar to what he wrote about Muhammad the "great Prophet," Ali the "gallant" advocate, and the "standing miracle" of the Qur'an. Stubbe's book therefore makes a unique contribution to the study of the representation of Islam in Western thought.

Author : David Currell,François-Xavier Gleyzon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351756204

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Reading Milton through Islam by David Currell,François-Xavier Gleyzon Pdf

John Milton’s poetry and prose are central to our understanding of the aesthetic, political and religious upheavals of early modern England. Innovative recent scholarship, however, continues to expand the range of contexts through which we read Milton beyond Christian Europe, unearthing the vitality and resonance of the Miltonic text within religious and political debates across borders, through time and in multiple languages. The Islamic world has begun to receive deserved recognition as one such global site of this cultural energy. The publication of complete translations of Paradise Lost into Arabic has stimulated fresh critical explorations from a multiplicity of perspectives: historicist, comparative and theological. Attention to spatially and religiously diverse influences and reception contexts offers new avenues of approach into masterpieces including Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained and Areopagitica, as well as into the cultural forces these texts represent, reimagine and contest. By exploring how Milton, Islam and the Middle East address and implicate one another, this collection asks how, why and where Milton matters. This book was originally published as a special issue of English Studies.

Author : Gerald Horne
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781583676639

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The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism by Gerald Horne Pdf

"Account of of the slave trade and its lasting effects on modern life, based on the history of the Eastern Seaboard of North America, the Caribbean, Africa, and what is now Great Britain"--

Author : Thomas N. Corns
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 671 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118827826

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A New Companion to Milton by Thomas N. Corns Pdf

A New Companion to Milton builds on the critically-acclaimed original, bringing alive the diverse and controversial world of contemporary Milton studies while reflecting the very latest advances in research in the field. Comprises 36 powerful readings of Milton's texts and the contexts in which they were created, each written by a leading scholar Retains 28 of the award-winning essays from the first edition, revised and updated to reflect the most recent research Contains a new section exploring Milton's global impact, in China, India, Japan, Korea, in Spanish speaking American and the Arab-speaking world Includes eight completely new full-length essays, each of which engages closely with Milton's poetic oeuvre, and a new chronology which sets Milton's life and work in the context of his age Explores literary production and cultural ideologies, issues of politics, gender and religion, individual Milton texts, and responses to Milton over time

Author : Mandy Green,Sharihan Al-Akhras
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000375817

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Women (Re)Writing Milton by Mandy Green,Sharihan Al-Akhras Pdf

This volume of essays reconfigures the reception history of Milton and his works by bringing to the fore women reading, writing, and rewriting Milton, bringing together in conversation a range of voices from diverse historical, cultural, religious, and social contexts across the globe and through the centuries. The book encompasses a rich range of different literary genres, artistic media, and academic disciplines and draws on the research of established Milton scholars and new Miltonists. Like the female authors and artists whom they explore, the contributors take up a variety of standpoints. As well as revisiting the work of established figures, the volume brings new female creative artists, new subjects, and new approaches to the study of Milton.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004326637

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Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History Volume 8. Northern and Eastern Europe (1600-1700) by Anonim Pdf

Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History, volume 8 (CMR 8) is a history of everything that was written on relations in the period 1600-1700 in Northern and Eastern Europe. Its detailed entries contain descriptions, assessments and comprehensive bibliographical details about individual works.

Author : Laurie J. Vitt,Janalee P. Caldwell
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 0080921892

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Herpetology by Laurie J. Vitt,Janalee P. Caldwell Pdf

This third edition, now fully revised and updated by two of Dr. Zug's colleagues, provides herpetology students and amateur reptile and amphibian keepers with the latest taxonomy and species developments from around the world. Herpetology is a rapidly evolving field, which has contributed to new discoveries in many conceptual areas of biology. The authors build on this progress by updating all chapters with new literature, graphics, and discussions—many of which have changed our thinking. With a new emphasis placed on conservation issues, Herpetology continues to broaden the global coverage from earlier editions, recognizing the burgeoning reptile and amphibian research programs and the plight of many species in all countries and all biomes. New information on the remarkable advances in behavioral, physiological, and phylo-geographical data provide students with the current research they need to advance their education and better prepare their future in herpetology. * The latest taxonomy data * End-of-chapter discussions for classroom use * 90% new photographs, now all in full color for an enhanced visual representation * Most recent information on the exciting and developing herpetological communities in Australia, Europe, Asia, South and North Americas * New emphasis on conservation issues surrounding herpetology

Author : John A. Keinath,Debra E. Barnard,John A. Musick,Barbara A. Bell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Endangered species
ISBN : UCSD:31822009136482

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Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation, 20-25 February 1995, Hilton Head, South Carolina by John A. Keinath,Debra E. Barnard,John A. Musick,Barbara A. Bell Pdf

Author : Sari Nusseibeh
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781250098757

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Once Upon a Country by Sari Nusseibeh Pdf

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A teacher, a scholar, a philosopher, and an eyewitness to history, Sari Nusseibeh is one of our most urgent and articulate authorities on the conflict in the Middle East. From his time teaching side by side with Israelis at the Hebrew University through his appointment by Yasir Arafat to administer the Arab Jerusalem, he has held fast to the principles of freedom and equality for all, and his story dramatizes the consequences of war, partition, and terrorism as few other books have done. This autobiography brings rare depth and compassion to the story of his country.

Author : George R. Zug,Laurie Vitt (J.),Janalee P. Caldwell
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2001-05-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780127826226

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Herpetology by George R. Zug,Laurie Vitt (J.),Janalee P. Caldwell Pdf

This book is a review of all the myriad aspects of the biology, ecology, evolution, physiology, and behavior of amphibians and reptiles. (Midwest).

Author : Carl H. Ernst,Jeffrey E. Lovich
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780801891212

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Turtles of the United States and Canada by Carl H. Ernst,Jeffrey E. Lovich Pdf

Winner, 2011 Book Award, The Wildlife Society2009 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Ernst and Lovich’s thoroughly revised edition of this classic reference provides the most updated information ever assembled on the natural histories of North American turtles. From diminutive mud turtles to giant alligator snappers, two of North America’s most prominent experts describe the turtles that live in the fresh, brackish, and marine waters north of Mexico. Incorporating the explosion of new scientific information published on turtles over the past fifteen years—including the identification of four new species—Ernst and Lovich supply comprehensive coverage of all fifty-eight species, with discussions of conservation status and recovery efforts. Each species account contains information on identification, genetics, fossil record, distribution, geographic variation, habitat, behavior, reproduction, biology, growth and longevity, food habits, populations, predators, and conservation status. The book includes range maps for freshwater and terrestrial species, a glossary of scientific names, an extensive bibliography for further research, and an index to scientific and common names. Logically organized and richly illustrated—with more than two hundred color photographs and fifty-two maps—Turtles of the United States and Canada remains the standard for libraries, museums, nature centers, field biologists, and professional and amateur herpetologists alike.

Author : François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1812
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HXJ3Z2

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The Martyrs by François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand Pdf