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  • Lendo Lolita em Teerã

    Memórias de uma resistência literária

    de Azar Nafisi ...
    Traduzido por Fernando Esteves ...
    A narrativa corajosa dos encontros intelectuais de oito mulheres em Teerã, realizados contra todas as adversidades, garante que as palavras de jovens que ousaram aprender sejam registradas e reverberem pelo mundo, deixando marcas inesquecíveis na literatura.Em Lendo Lolita em Teerã, Azar Nafisi revisita as memórias da época em que lecionou literatura inglesa na Universidade de Teerã, no Irã, de ... Leia mais

    R$ 22,46

  • Arabian Nights

    A Selection

    Probably one of the original 'story within a story' books, Arabian nights is a selection of stories told by a young girl on her wedding night to a prince who has sworn to kill any girl who marries him. Her clever stories serve as 'cliff-hangers' and keep him from murdering her night after night. This collection is where classic fairy tales such as Aladdin and Ali Baba and the Forty Theives come ... Leia mais

    R$ 13,38

  • On the Harmony of Religions and Philosophy (Golden Deer Classics)

    In this treatise Ibn Rushd (Averroes) sets out to show that the Scriptural Law (shar') of Islam does not altogether prohibit the study of philosophy by Muslims, but, on the contrary, makes it a duty for a certain class of people, those with the capacity for "demonstrative" or scientific reasoning. Apparent conflicts between the teachings of Scripture and philosophy can be reconciled by allegorical ... Leia mais

    R$ 2,90

  • The World of Persian Literary Humanism

    de Hamid Dabashi ...
    Humanism has mostly considered the question “What does it mean to be human?” from a Western perspective. Dabashi asks it anew from a non-European perspective, in a groundbreaking study of 1,400 years of Persian literary humanism. He presents the unfolding of this vast tradition as the creative and subversive subconscious of Islamic civilization. ... Leia mais

    R$ 143,79

  • Reading Arab Women's Autobiographies

    Shahrazad Tells Her Story

    Authors of autobiographies are always engaged in creating a "self" to present to their readers. This process of self-creation raises a number of intriguing questions: why and how does anyone choose to present herself or himself in an autobiography? Do women and men represent themselves in different ways and, if so, why? How do differences in culture affect the writing of autobiography in various ... Leia mais

    R$ 129,49

  • Langue et littérature arabes classiques

    Leçon inaugurale prononcée le vendredi 3 décembre 1976

    de André Miquel ...
    Séries series Leçons inaugurales
    Chronologiquement parlant, le Coran n’a créé ni la langue ni les lettres arabes. Et pourtant, dans l’éclat formidable de son coup de tonnerre et par les échos infiniment multipliés qu’il déchaîna, il a renouvelé, structuré, diffusé le vieux langage, exalté sa littérature et créé, au plein sens du terme cette fois, une civilisation. Le texte fondamental de la littérature arabe affirme les droits et ... Leia mais

    R$ 22,90

  • Attraverso il Cinquecento

    de Arturo Graf ...
    Scopri un viaggio affascinante nel cuore del Rinascimento con "Attraverso il Cinquecento" di Arturo Graf!Immergiti in un'epoca di straordinaria trasformazione culturale e artistica, dove ogni pagina ti trasporta in un mondo di intrighi, scoperte e rivoluzioni intellettuali.Con una narrazione avvincente e dettagliata, Graf esplora i temi unici del Rinascimento, dall'arte alla filosofia, dalla ... Leia mais

    R$ 32,90

  • The Rise of the Arabic Book

    The little-known story of the sophisticated and vibrant Arabic book culture that flourished during the Middle Ages.During the thirteenth century, Europe’s largest library owned fewer than 2,000 volumes. Libraries in the Arab world at the time had exponentially larger collections. Five libraries in Baghdad alone held between 200,000 and 1,000,000 books each, including multiple copies of standard ... Leia mais

    R$ 172,49

  • From the Workshop of the Mesopotamian Scribe

    Literary and Scholarly Texts from the Old Babylonian Period

    This volume presents first editions of a variety of cuneiform tablets from the Old Babylonian period belonging to the collection of the late Shlomo Moussaieff. It makes available for the first time three texts representing varying levels of Mesopotamian scribal education. The first is what the authors argue is the most complete copy of the first fifty lines of the standard version of the Sumerian ... Leia mais

    R$ 453,59

  • Religion et violence dans l’œuvre de Yusuf Zaydan

    Séries series Sciences humaines et sociales
    Auteur égyptien controversé tant pour son œuvre que pour sa personnalité, Yusuf Zaydan est ce qu’on appelle un phénomène littéraire. Si sa posture d’écrivain s’inscrit bien dans la tradition de l’intellectuel éveilleur des consciences hérité de la renaissance arabe, sa trajectoire de romancier n’en demeure pas moins emblématique de l’éclatement récent du champ littéraire égyptien. Ce livre explore ... Leia mais

    R$ 42,90

  • Writing Queer Identities in Morocco

    Abdellah Taïa and Moroccan Committed Literature

    Séries series Written Culture and Identity
    This book explores queer identity in Morocco through the work of author and LGBT activist Abdellah Taïa, who defied the country's anti-homosexuality laws by publicly coming out in 2006. Engaging postcolonial, queer and literary theory, Tina Dransfeldt Christensen examines Taïa's art and activism in the context of the wider debates around sexuality in Morocco.Placing key novels such as Salvation ... Leia mais

    R$ 174,19

  • Committed to Disillusion

    Activist Writers in Egypt from the 1950s to the 1980s

    de David DiMeo ...
    Can a writer help to bring about a more just society? This question was at the heart of the movement of al-adab al-multazim, or committed literature, which claimed to dominate Arab writing in the mid-twentieth century. By the 1960s, however, leading Egyptian writers had retreated into disillusionment, producing agonized works that challenged the key assumptions of socially engaged writing. Rather ... Leia mais

    R$ 176,69

  • Born Translated

    The Contemporary Novel in an Age of World Literature

    Séries series Literature Now
    As a growing number of contemporary novelists write for publication in multiple languages, the genre's form and aims are shifting. Born-translated novels include passages that appear to be written in different tongues, narrators who speak to foreign audiences, and other visual and formal techniques that treat translation as a medium rather than as an afterthought. These strategies challenge the ... Leia mais

    R$ 104,49

  • Russian-Arab Worlds

    A Documentary History

    The roots of the Arab world's current Russian entanglements reach deep into the tsarist and Soviet periods. To explore those entanglements, this book presents and contextualizes a set of primary sources translated from Russian, Arabic, Armenian, Persian, French, and Tatar: a 1772 Russian naval officer's diary, an Arabic slave sale deed from the Caucasus, an interview with a Russian-educated ... Leia mais

    R$ 468,69

  • Hebrew Orientalism

    Jewish Engagement with Arabo-Islamic Culture in Late Ottoman and British Palestine

    How Jewish writers in late Ottoman and British Mandate Palestine used Arabo-Islamic culture to advance the goals of ZionismIn the decades before the establishment of a Jewish state in 1948, native and immigrant Jews in Palestine mediated between Jewish and Arab cultures while navigating their evolving identities as settler colonists. Hebrew Orientalism challenges the conventional view that Hebrew ... Leia mais

    R$ 126,19

  • Literary Translation in Practice

    Arabic into English

    Editado por Azeez Jasim Mohammed ...
    Séries series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book introduces the theory and practice of literary translation through the lens of original short stories translated from Arabic into English. Readers are provided with both the source text and the target language translation, alongside critical commentaries and discussion of related key concepts and issues, to allow them to see the mechanics of decision-making in this type of specialised ... Leia mais

    R$ 367,49

  • The Politics of Melodrama

    The Cultural and Political Lives of Ihsan Abdel Kouddous and Gamal Abdel Nasser

    Ihsan Abdel Kouddous (1919–1990) is the most popular and prolific writer of Arabic fiction in the twentieth century. The Politics of Melodrama is the first book to take on this giant of Arabic fiction and consider both his outsized cultural influence and consequential position in Egyptian politics. Jonathan Smolin frames the work of Abdel Kouddous not only as romantic melodrama, but as an entirely ... Leia mais

    R$ 157,79

  • Ancient Persia in Western History

    Hellenism and the Representation of the Achaemenid Empire

    de Sasan Samiei ...
    Ancient Persia in Western History is a measured rejoinder to the dominant narrative that considers the Graeco-Persian Wars to be merely the first round of an oft-repeated battle between the despotic 'East' and the broadly enlightened 'West'. Sasan Samiei analyses the historiography which has skewed our understanding of this crucial era - contrasting the work of Edward Gibbon and Goethe, which ... Leia mais

    R$ 182,39

  • Erotica, Love and Humor in Arabia

    Spicy Stories from The Book of Songs by al-Isfahani

    The Book of Songs of Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani (AD 897-971) is the most extensive collection of anecdotes from pre-Islam Mecca, Medina, Damascus and Baghdad to the beginning of the tenth century. Entertaining and informative, these gems have remained largely inaccessible to Western readers. This translation presents a collection of love stories and poems, biting satires, daring erotic encounters, ... Leia mais

    R$ 59,59

  • The Sword of Ambition

    Bureaucratic Rivalry in Medieval Egypt

    Séries Livros: 38 - Library of Arabic Literature
    The Sword of Ambition belongs to a genre of religious polemic written for the rulers of Egypt and Syria between the twelfth and the fourteenth centuries. Unlike most medieval Muslim polemic, the concerns of this genre were more social and political than theological. Leaving no rhetorical stone unturned, the book’s author, an unemployed Egyptian scholar and former bureaucrat named 'Uthman ibn ... Leia mais

    R$ 147,49

  • Children’s Picture Books and Contemporary Egyptian Society

    A social and political history of two decades of Egyptian neoliberalism through children’s picture books published in Egypt in the post-2000 eraChildren’s picture books are some of the most transparently ideological materials available to parents and educators, and as cultural objects they are an expression of the zeitgeist of a particular era. They reveal much about the hopes, values, and ... Leia mais

    R$ 252,39

  • Orhan Pamuk and the Good of World Literature

    de Gloria Fisk ...
    Séries series Literature Now
    When Orhan Pamuk won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006, he was honored as a builder of bridges across a dangerous chasm. By rendering his Turkish characters and settings familiar where they would otherwise seem troublingly foreign, and by speaking freely against his authoritarian state, he demonstrated a variety of literary greatness that testified also to the good literature can do in the ... Leia mais

    R$ 292,89

  • Melancholy Acts

    Defeat and Cultural Critique in the Arab World

    de Nouri Gana ...
    CHOICE: OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLEHow do the literatures and cultures of oppressed societies survive and flourish in spite of the overdetermining conditions of precarity and injustice of which they are a product and against which they protest? Might the symptom of oppression become simultaneously the agent of its critique? Melancholy Acts offers richly nuanced reflections on these questions ... Leia mais

    R$ 178,19

  • Edward Said's Concept of Exile

    Identity and Cultural Migration in the Middle East

    Séries series Written Culture and Identity
    Edward Said was an exiled individual – the 'out of place' Palestinian in the USA. He saw the consequences of the 1948 dismantling of Palestine and the establishment of Israel through his parents' experiences and through the collective statelessness imposed on the Palestinians. His own personal experience of exile intensified when he moved to the USA. Yet despite the significance of exile to Said's ... Leia mais

    R$ 709,89