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Author : Helen Blatherwick
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004314801
This book is an exploration of the part played by Islamic prophetic legends, Ancient Egyptian myths and stories, and the Middle Eastern Alexander Romance in an Egyptian popular epic.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004521780
Doing Justice to a Wronged Literature, a Festschrift for the Arabist and Islamicist Thomas Bauer, includes 17 essays by established academics on various themes and aspects of Arabic literature and rhetoric of the Ayyubid, Mamluk and Ottoman periods (12th-18th centuries).
Author : Uri Zvi Shachar
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812253337
"This is a book about how Near Eastern communities clustered around pious warfare as a set of literary conventions and how these dialogical conventions infiltrated the semantics of contemporary authors"--
Author : Pamela Lothspeich
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 661 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000912166
Reconceptualizing the epic genre and opening it up to a world of storytelling, The Epic World makes a timely and bold intervention toward understanding the human propensity to aestheticize and normalize mass deployments of power and violence. The collection broadly considers three kinds of epic literature: conventional celebratory tales of conquest that glorify heroism, especially male heroism; anti-epics or stories of conquest from the perspectives of the dispossessed, the oppressed, the despised, and the murdered; and heroic stories utilized for imperialist or nationalist purposes. The Epic World illustrates global patterns of epic storytelling, such as the durability of stories tied to religious traditions and/or to peoples who have largely "stayed put"; the tendency to reimagine and retell stories in new ways over centuries; and the imbrication of epic storytelling and forms of colonialism and imperialism, especially those perpetuated and glorified by Euro-Americans over the past 500 years, resulting in unspeakable and immeasurable harms to humans, other living beings, and the planet Earth. The Epic World is a go-to volume for anyone interested in epic literature in a global framework. Engaging with powerful stories and ways of knowing beyond those of the predominantly white Global North, this field-shifting volume exposes the false premises of "Western civilization" and "Classics," and brings new questions and perspectives to epic studies.
Author : Michelle Karnes
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226819754
"It is a commonplace that marvels like enchanted rings and sorcerers' stones were topics of fascination in the Middle Ages, not only in romance and travel literature, but also in the period's philosophic writing: magical objects with hard-to-explain powers abound. This is the first book to analyze these different bodies of writing alongside one another, comparing texts from both the Latin West (including writings in English, French, Italian, and Spanish) and in Arabic on the topic, attempting a unifying theory of marvels across different disciplines and cultures. Michelle Karnes tells an untold story of the parallels between Arabic and Latin thought, reminding us that the strange and the unfamiliar travel unusually well across a range of genres, spanning geographical and conceptual space, and offers an ideal vantage point from which to understand Arabic and Latin intercultural exchange. Employing the notion of the near-impossibility, Karnes traverses this diverse archive, marking the outer boundaries of both nature's capabilities and human creativity. Imagination, she shows, invests marvels with their character and, ultimately, their power. Skirting the distinction between the real and unreal, the true and the false, imagination, for Karnes, endows marvels with indeterminacy and import, imbuing them with inherently interdisciplinary, boundary-resistant, perplexing properties. These near-impossibilities cannot be conclusively discounted; rather, they challenge readers to discover the highest capabilities of both nature and the human intellect. Karnes offers here a rare, comparative perspective and a new methodology to study a topic long recognized to be central to medieval culture"--
Author : Frederick Denison Maurice
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Prophets
ISBN : OCLC:18571897
Author : Amar S. Baadj
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 685 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004460089
A Handbook of Modern Arabic Historical Scholarship on the Ancient and Medieval Periods presents 16 studies about modern Arab academic scholarship on the Ancient and Medieval Worlds covering disciplines as diverse as Assyriology and Mamluk studies as well as historiographical schools in the Arab World. This unique work is the first of its kind in any language. It is an important resource for scholars and students of the Ancient Near East and North Africa, Classical and Byzantine studies, and medieval Islamic history who would like to learn more about the work done by their colleagues in the Arab World in these fields over the last 7 decades and to benefit from Arabic secondary sources in their research. دليل الدراسات العربية الحديثة حول العصور القديمة والوسيطة يحتوي هذا الكتاب على 61 بحثا حول الدراسات الأكاديمية المتعلّقة بتاريخ العصور القديمة والوسيطة في العالم العربي، وتغطي هذه الأبحاث تخصصات علمية متنوعة منها الدراسات المسمارية والدراسات المملوكية، إضافةً إلى بعض المدارس التاريخية العربية المعاصرة. الكتاب فريد من نوعه والأول في كافة اللغات، ويُشكّل مصدرا هاما للباحثين والطلبة في دراسات الشرق الأدنى القديم وشمال إفريقيا في العصور القديمة والدراسات الكلاسيكية والبيزنطية والتاريخ الإسلامي الوسيط، وكذلك للمهتمين بعلمي التاريخ والآثار في الدول العربية. Contributors Emad Abou-Ghazi, Al-Amin Abouseada, Youcef Aibeche, Sidi Mohammed Alaioud, Abdulhadi Alajmi, Allaoua Amara, Lotfi Ben Miled, Brahim El Kadiri Boutchich, Usama Gad, Azeddine Guessous, Fayza Haikal, Hani Hamza, Laith Hussein, Nasir al-Kaabi, Khaled Kchir, Mohammed Maraqten, Amr Omar, Abdelaziz Ramadan.
Author : Richard van Leeuwen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004340541
In Narratives of Kingship in Eurasian Empires, 1300-1800 Richard van Leeuwen analyses representations and constructions of the idea of kingship in fictional texts of various genres, especially belonging to the intermediate layer between popular and official literature. The analysis shows how ideologies of power are embedded in the literary and cultural imagination of societies, their cultural values and conceptualizations of authority. By referring to examples from various empires (Chinese, Indian, Persian, Arabic, Turkish, European) the parallels between literary traditions are laid bare, revealing remarkable common concerns. The process of interaction and transmission are highlighted to illustrate how literature served as a repository for ideological and cultural values transforming power into authority in various imperial environments.
Author : Lena Jayyusi
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780253056603
"A charming and agreeable surprise . . . A welcome gift to Western readers." —Kirkus Reviews "Editor Jayyusi offers a major example of the Arabic folk epics or romances called siras . . . The siras are full of heroic adventures, exotic landscapes, love affairs, friendships, supernatural dangers, magical spells, and great Arab heroes. . . . " —Library Journal "This text should find its place alongside the translations of other epic traditions of the world as a text well suited for use in university courses on the Middle East, world literature, epic, and folklore." —Journal of Arabic Literature This colorful panorama recounts the fantastic tales of a sixth-century Arab king and offers unusual perspectives on gender, religion, race, and ethnicity. Composed between the 13th and 16th centuries and presented here in English for the first time.
Author : Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh Kisāʼī
Publisher : Kazi Publications
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015052877910
Author : Alia Malek
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781416592686
Among the surfeit of narratives about Arabs that have been published in recent years, surprisingly little has been reported on Arabs in America -- an increasingly relevant issue. This book is the most powerful approach imaginable: it is the story of the last forty-plus years of American history, told through the eyes of Arab Americans. It begins in 1963, before major federal legislative changes seismically transformed the course of American immigration forever. Each chapter describes an event in U.S. history -- which may already be familiar to us -- and invites us to live that moment in time in the skin of one Arab American. The chapters follow a timeline from 1963 to the present, and the characters live in every corner of this country. These are dramatic narratives, describing the very human experiences of love, friendship, family, courage, hate, and success. There are the timeless tales of an immigrant community becoming American, the nostalgia for home, the alienation from a society sometimes as intolerant as its laws are generous. A Country Called Amreeka's snapshots allow us the complexity of its characters' lives with an impassioned narrative normally found in fiction. Read separately, the chapters are entertaining and harrowing vignettes; read together, they add a new tile to the mosaic of our history. We meet fellow Americans of all creeds and colors, among them the Alabama football player who navigates the stringent racial mores of segregated Birmingham, where a church bombing wakes a nation to the need to make America a truly more equal place; the young wife from Ramallah -- now living in Baltimore -- who had to abandon her beautiful home and is now asked by a well-meaning American, "How do you like living in an apartment after living in a tent?"; the Detroit toughs and the potsmoking suburban teenagers, who in different decades become politicized and serious about their heritage despite their own wills; the homosexual man afraid to be gay in the Arab world and afraid to be Arab in America; the two formidable women who wind up working for opposing campaigns in the 2000 presidential election; the Marine fighting in Iraq who meets villagers who ask him, "What are you, an Arab, doing here?" We glimpse how America sees Arabs as much as how Arabs see America. We revisit the 1973 oil embargo that initiated the American perception of all Arabs as oil-rich sheikhs; the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis that heralded the arrival of Middle Eastern Islam in the American consciousness; bombings across three decades in Los Angeles, Oklahoma City, and New York City that bring terrorism to American soil; and both wars in Iraq that have posed Arabs as the enemies of America. In a post-9/11 world, Arabic names are everywhere in America, but our eyes glaze over them; we sometimes don't know how to pronounce them or understand whence they come. A Country Called Amreeka gives us the faces behind those names and tells the story of a community it has become essential for us to understand. We can't afford to be oblivious.
Author : Rudi Paret
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Folk literature, Arabic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105133569355
Sayf ibn Dhi Yazan (575–597) was the son of Himyar King Dhi Yazan, who ruled one of the Yemeni kingdoms. In the sixth century, Yemen was drawn into the Persian-Byzantine conflict that had arisen over control of the trade routes between the Mediterranean and Inida. To aid Yemen’s independent power position, King Dhu Nawas (517–525) converted to Judaism, which resulted in religious conflicts between Christians and Jews and led to the intervention of the Aksum Empire. Consequently Aksum defeated the Himyarites in 525 and occupied Yemen. Although Aksum governor Abraha (535–560) attained inde»pendence, religious conflicts continued for fifty years. The collapse of the Mareb Dam, in 575, had destroyed agriculture and damaged prosperity of the country and, consequently, Mareb or Marib, capital of the Sabaeans, fell into oblivion. Subsequently, descendants of the Himyar lineage, the Sassanides, asked for Persian assistance and, after the death of Abraha, Sayf ibn Dhi Yazan succeeded to oust the Aksumites – with Persian support. The Persians had wanted to defeat the Romans by defeating the Abyssinians in Yemen. Hence, their support for Sayf ibn Dhi Yazan, who led the 7500 strong Persian army along with some 800 prisoners to defeat Abyssinia. After their victory over the Abyssinians, the Persians remained in Yemen, which was then declared a Persian protectorate in a document signed by them and King Dhi Yazan who led the 7500 strong Persian army along with some 800 prisoners to defeat Abyssinia. After their victory over the Abyssinians, the Persians remained in Yemen, which was then declared a Persian protectorate in a document signed by them and King Dhi Yazan. Yemen remained under direct Persian influence until the people of Yemen 2heard the Islamic call3, embracing Islam as their religion. Eventually Yemenis were at the vanguard of the Islamic armies and instrumental in building the Islamic state that stretched from China to Andalusia. These historical facts are reflected in this Arabic epic, be it in reference to the Year of the Elephant (575), when Abraha employed elephants in his – failed – attempt to capture the Qaaba, or in Sayf marrying a daughter of the Chinese king, or in reference to wars amd diplomacy with Abyssinia. Conversion to Islam of defeated peoples is one of the leitmotifs threading through the entire epic.
Author : Roberta Sabbath
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047430964
Sacred Tropes interweaves Tanakh, New Testament, and Qur'an essays which collectively and individually enlist literary approaches including environmental, cultural studies, gender, psychoanalytic, ideological, economic, historicism, law, and rhetorical criticisms. Sacred Tropes represents a pioneering, comparatist approach to Abrahamic studies.
Author : Jacob Lassner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1993-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0226469158
Over the centuries, Jewish and Muslim writers transformed the biblical Queen of Sheba from a clever, politically astute sovereign to a demonic force threatening the boundaries of gender. In this book, Jacob Lassner shows how successive retellings of the biblical story reveal anxieties about gender and illuminate the processes of cultural transmission. The Bible presents the Queen of Sheba's encounter with King Solomon as a diplomatic mission: the queen comes "to test him with hard questions," all of which he answers to her satisfaction; she then praises him and, after an exchange of gifts, returns to her own land. By the Middle Ages, Lassner demonstrates, the focus of the queen's visit had shifted from international to sexual politics. The queen was now portrayed as acting in open defiance of nature's equilibrium and God's design. In these retellings, the authors humbled the queen and thereby restored the world to its proper condition. Lassner also examines the Islamization of Jewish themes, using the dramatic accounts of Solomon and his female antagonist as a test case of how Jewish lore penetrated the literary imagination of Muslims. Demonizing the Queen of Sheba thus addresses not only specialists in Jewish and Islamic studies, but also those concerned with issues of cultural transmission and the role of gender in history.
Author : Reuven Snir
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781474420525
The study of Arabic literature is blossoming. This book provides a comprehensive theoretical framework to help research this highly prolific and diverse production of contemporary literary texts. Based on the achievements of historical poetics, in particular those of Russian formalism and its theoretical legacy, this framework offers flexible, transparent, and unbiased tools to understand the relevant contexts within the literary system. The aim is to enhance our understanding of Arabic literature, throw light on areas of literary production that traditionally have been neglected, and stimulate others to take up the fascinating challenge of mapping out and exploring them.