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Tajrid sayf al-himmah li-stikhraj ma fi dhimmat al-dhimmah

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Series Book 25 - Library of Arabic Literature
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This collection of essays provides an insightful exploration of the finest works in Arab literature, spanning from the pre-Islamic era to contemporary voices. Review of Arab Literature offers in-depth analysis and critical commentary on the most significant literary works that have shaped Arab thought and culture over the centuries.The book opens with an exploration of the iconic One Thousand and
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Front Cover Iconography and Algerian Women’s Writing

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Series series After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
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Middle Eastern Gothics

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The Star, the Cross, and the Crescent

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Series series After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
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Critics have long viewed translating Arabic literature into English as an ethically fraught process of mediating between two wholly incommensurable languages, cultures, and literary traditions. Today, Arabic literature is no longer “embargoed” from Anglophone cultural spaces, as Edward Said once famously claimed that it was. As Arabic literary works are translated into English in ever-greater ... Read more

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Images of the Muslim Woman in Early Modern English Drama

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Early modern scholarship often reads the dramatic representations of the Muslim woman in the light of postcolonial identity politics, which sees an organic relationship between the West’s historical domination of the East and the Western discourse on the East. This book problematizes the above trajectory by arguing that the assumption of a power relation between a dominating West and a subordinate ... Read more

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Early modern scholarship often reads the dramatic representations of the Muslim woman in the light of postcolonial identity politics, which sees an organic relationship between the West’s historical domination of the East and the Western discourse on the East. This book problematizes the above trajectory by arguing that the assumption of a power relation between a dominating West and a subordinate
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La création romanesque contemporaine en Syrie de 1967 à nos jours

by Elisabeth Vauthier ...

Series series Études arabes, médiévales et modernes
Le roman s’est affirmé au XXe siècle comme un élément incontournable dans le champ culturel syrien, particulièrement à partir des années 70. La période, en effet, est le théâtre d’un développement quantitatif et qualitatif notable dans la production romanesque. Les écrivains prennent alors leurs distances avec le réalisme antérieur et tentent d’établir un nouveau rapport entre vécu national, ... Read more

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ApÛlogo de la ociosidad y el trabajo de Francisco Cervantes de Salazar

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El Apólogo de la ociosidad y el trabajo forma parte del volumen intitulado Obras que Francisco Cervantes de Salazar ha hecho, glosado y traducido (1546), que agavilla tres obras precedidas de un prólogo de Alejo Venegas. Tal y como nos ha llegado, el Apólogo es resultado de una doble autoría. Por una parte, Luis Mexía tradujo y reelaboró desde una perspectiva erasmista la primera parte de la ... Read more

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The romantic lyricism of the great Persian poet Hafiz (1315-1390) continues to be admired around the world. Recent exploration of that lyricism by Iranian scholars has revealed that, in addition to his masterful use of poetic devices, Hafiz's verse is deeply steeped in the philosophy and symbolism of Persian love mysticism. This innovative volume discusses the aesthetic theories and mystical ... Read more

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Afghans, Iranians, and Literary Nationalism

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Series series Connected Histories of the Middle East and the Global South
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**2025 René Wellek Prize, Monograph, American Comparative Literature AssociationThe dynamic and interconnected ways Afghans and Iranians invented their modern selves through literature.**Contrary to the presumption that literary nationalism in the Global South emerged through contact with Europe alone, Reading across Borders demonstrates how the cultural forms of Iran and Afghanistan as nation
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Die letzten zwanzig Jahre deutscher Litteraturgeschichte 1880–1900

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Entdecken Sie die verborgenen Schätze der deutschen Literaturgeschichte!In "Die letzten zwanzig Jahre deutscher Litteraturgeschichte 1880–1900" entführt Emil Thomas seine Leser auf eine faszinierende Reise durch eine der dynamischsten Epochen der deutschen Literatur. Tauchen Sie ein in eine Welt voller literarischer Innovationen und kultureller Umbrüche, die die Grundlage für die moderne Literatur ... Read more

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Die letzten zwanzig Jahre deutscher Litteraturgeschichte 1880–1900