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Series Book 5 - Studies in East Asian Literatures and Cultures
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Series series Routledge Sufi Series
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Series Book 2 - The Arabian Nights
Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier's daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king tales of adventure, love, riches and wonder - tales of mystical lands peopled with princes and hunchbacks, the Angel of Death and magical spirits, tales of the voyages of ... Read more

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The Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History

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Series series The Middle Ages Series
Arabic culture was a central and shaping phenomenon in medieval Europe, yet its influence on medieval literature has been ignored or marginalized for the last two centuries. In this ground-breaking book, now returned to print with a new afterword by the author, María Rosa Menocal argues that major modifications of the medieval canon and its literary history are necessary.Menocal reviews the Arabic ... Read more

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Arabic into English

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Series 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 ... Read more

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Series series Routledge Studies in the Qur'an
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La voz de la conseja, t.1 (Spanish Edition)

by Pío Baroja, Benito Pérez Galdós, Armando Palacio Valdés, Miguel de Unamuno, condesa de Emilia Pardo Bazán, Rubén Darío, Jacinto Benavente, José Nogales, Joaquín Dicenta, Ricardo León, Pedro de Répide, Arturo Reyes, and Pedro Mata ...

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by Hanan Mousa ...

Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
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The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights

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