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  • Gilgamesh

    A New Translation of the Ancient Epic

    by Sophus Helle ...
    A poem for the ages, freshly and accessibly translated by an international rising star, bringing together scholarly precision and poetic graceGilgamesh is a Babylonian epic from three thousand years ago, which tells of King Gilgamesh’s deep love for the wild man Enkidu and his pursuit of immortality when Enkidu dies. It is a story about love between men, loss and grief, the confrontation with ... Read more

    PHP1,108.79

  • Boys Abducted

    The Homoerotics of Empire and Race in Early Modernity

    Series series Theory Q
    In Boys Abducted, Abdulhamit Arvas explores the history of abducted boys in English and Ottoman literary and visual culture to examine the relationships between homoeroticism, race, and empire in the early modern period. The popular literary trope of the abducted beautiful boy—often eroticized as an exotic object of desire—intersects with the historical phenomenon of vulnerable youths who were ... Read more

    PHP1,239.69

  • Utopia Incarnate

    A Gastrocritical Reading of Cuban and Egyptian Cultural Production, 1960–2000

    A groundbreaking analysis of the cultural afterlives of mass utopia in Cuba and Egypt.Utopia Incarnate maps a shared mass utopian discourse of plenty in Cuba and Egypt in the second half of the twentieth century. Taking a comparative, "gastrocritical" approach, Eman Shaban Morsi traces the centrality of tropes of meat, as a literal and figurative embodiment of the contradictions of modernization, ... Read more

    PHP2,103.89

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  • Sufism and Transcendentalism

    A Poststructuralist Dialogue Between Rumi and Whitman

    by Elham Shayegh ...
    The rhetoric of cultural identity generally goes in two potential directions: One a universal line that insists on an overall pattern of integration and harmony among all peoples regardless of their differences, and the other a line which suggests that various cultures are so specific and different that they will eventually enter into clash, violence and war. Drawing upon Derrida's concept of ... Read more

    PHP4,517.09

  • Arabs in the Mirror

    Images and Self-Images from Pre-Islamic to Modern Times

    by Nissim Rejwan ...
    What is an Arab? Though many in the West would answer that question with simplistic stereotypes, the reality is far more complex and interesting. Arabs themselves have been debating Arab identity since pre-Islamic times, coming to a variety of conclusions about the nature and extent of their “Arabness.” Likewise, Westerners and others have attempted to analyze Arab identity, reaching mostly ... Read more

    PHP1,592.09

  • Reading Iraqi Women’s Novels in English Translation

    Iraqi Women’s Stories

    Series series Focus on Global Gender and Sexuality
    By exploring how translation has shaped the literary contexts of six Iraqi woman writers, this book offers new insights into their translation pathways as part of their stories’ politics of meaning-making.The writers in focus are Samira Al-Mana, Daizy Al-Amir, Inaam Kachachi, Betool Khedairi, Alia Mamdouh and Hadiya Hussein, whose novels include themes of exile, war, occupation, class, rurality ... Read more

    PHP4,742.45

  • Iran

    Politics, History and Literature

    Series series Iranian Studies
    This book offers a view of Iran through politics, history and literature, showing how the three angles combine.Iran, being a revolutionary society, experienced two great revolutions within the short span of just seventy years, from the 1900s to the 1970s. Both were massive revolts of the society against the state; the main objective of the first being to establish lawful government to make ... Read more

    PHP4,557.66

  • The Last of an Age

    The Making and Unmaking of a Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Poet

    by Sooyong Kim ...
    In The Last of an Age, Sooyong Kim explores the relationship betweensocial change and the development of an Ottoman literary canon in thecourse of the sixteenth century by examining the work and reception ofa popular poet, Zati (1471–1546). Kim argues that a newly emergentgroup of bureaucratic literati, through the production of authoritative biographicaldictionaries, ultimately relegated Zati to ... Read more

    PHP4,003.28

  • The Story of the Banned Book

    Naguib Mahfouz's Children of the Alley

    Translated by Humphrey Davies ...
    An award-winning account of Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz’s most controversial novel and the fierce debates that it provokedNaguib Mahfouz’s novel Children of the Alley has been in the spotlight since it was first published in Egypt in 1959. It has been at times banned and at others allowed, sold sometimes under the counter and sometimes openly on the street, often pirated and only recently ... Read more

    PHP1,551.89 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Orhan Pamuk and the Good of World Literature

    by Gloria Fisk ...
    Series 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 ... Read more

    PHP2,882.39

  • Poets From a War Torn World

    by Aviva Butt ...
    The first two essays in Poets from a War Torn World are about mysticism in modern Arabic poetry. The second two essays are about literary philosophy in modern Hebrew poetry. All four essays focus on the 1960s and 1970s, a time when poets hoped that through their writings they could help bring peace to a war torn Middle East.-----Reuven Snirs introduction is in clear simple language. It provides ... Read more

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  • Stateless Literature of the Gulf

    Culture, Politics and the Bidun in Kuwait

    by Tareq Alrabei ...
    The “Bidun” (“without nationality”) are a stateless community based across the Arab Gulf. There are an estimated 100,000 or so Bidun in Kuwait, a heterogeneous group made up of tribes people who failed to register for citizenship between 1959 and 1963, former residents of Iraq, Saudi and other Arab countries who joined the Kuwait security services in '60s and '70s and the children of Kuwaiti women ... Read more

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  • Muslim Masculinities in Literature and Film

    Transcultural Identity and Migration in Britain

    by Peter Cherry ...
    Series series Gender and Islam
    A climate of Islamophobia allows anxieties about Muslim men living in and migrating to Britain to endure. British Muslims men are often profiled in highly negative terms or regarded with suspicion owing to their perceived religious and cultural heritage. But novels and films by British migrant and diaspora writers and filmmakers powerfully contest these stereotypes, and explore the rich diversity ... Read more

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  • بيوغرافيا اللَّيل

    مُقارباتٌ في مناماتٍ إبداعيّة

    ثمّة كتابة نهاريّة قدرها الصباحات البائسة والنفوس شبه الطبيعيّة؛ كتابة هادئة، ومطمئنة، وسطحيّة الطروس، وناعمة الملامس، وذلك في مقابل كتابة نوكتيرونيّة تصنعها النفوس الاستثنائيّة داخل ورشة الدياميس المرعبة. كتابة صاخبة وقلقة وعميقة الأغوار، وناتئة المدارك. لنقل، على سبيل الاستعارة، إنّها محبرة شديدة السواد، نازفة من الروح اللاّمتآلفة مع أنظمة العالم المتكلّس، يستعين بها نبّاش لحود في مقابر الأبديّة ... Read more

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  • Cuneiform Texts from the Folios of W. G. Lambert, Part Two

    Edited by A. R. George, Junko Taniguchi ...
    Series Book 2 - Mesopotamian Civilizations
    This book publishes 323 handcopies of cuneiform tablets found in the academic papers of W. G. Lambert (1926–2011), one of the foremost Assyriologists of the twentieth century. Prepared by A. R. George and Junko Taniguchi, it completes a two-part edition of Lambert’s previously unpublished handcopies.Written by Babylonian and Assyrian scribes in ancient Mesopotamia, the texts collected here are ... Read more

    PHP1,897.39

  • Cultural Identity in Arabic Novels of Immigration

    A Poetics of Return

    Cultural Identity in Arabic Novels of Immigration: A Poetics of Return offers a new perspective of migration studies that views the concept of migration in Arabic as inherently embracing the notion of return. Starting the study with the significance of the Islamic hijra as the quintessential migrant narrative in Arabic culture, Elmeligi offers readings of Arabic narratives as early as Ibn Tufayl’s ... Read more

    PHP4,754.69

  • بەئاسمانی رۆژهەڵاتی ناڤینەوە-١

    by Niyazi Braim ...
    Series series ١
    ئەم کتێبە کە لەبەردەستدایە ، بەرگی یەکەممە لە نوسینەکانم لە ماوەی ١٥ ساڵدا، کۆی گشتی بەرگەکان خۆیان لە ١٢ بەرگ زیاتر دەدات ، کە تێکڕایان ، راپۆرتە هەواڵ و هەواڵ و شرۆڤە و دۆکۆمێنت و بابەت و راو سەرنجی میدیاکانی جیهان و هەرێمییە، سەبارەت بە هەرچوار پارچەی کوردستان و رۆژهەڵاتی ناڤین وجیهان.ئەم کتێبە یاداشت نوسینەوەی کەسیم نییە ، بەڵکو نوسینەکانمە لە ساتو شوێنی خۆیدا نوسراوە و، لە کتێبێکدا ، دەیخەمە ... Read more

    PHP537.90

  • مقامات في حضرة المحترم

    رحلة تأملية في عالم نجيب محفوظ، تتجاوز القراءة النمطية لتستكشف عمق رؤيته الإنسانية، وتحلل روائعه من زاوية جديدة. كتاب "مقامات في حضرة المحترم" ليس مجرد نقد أدبي، بل هو شهادة محبة على عبقرية أديبٍ شكل تاريخ الأدب العربي الحديث. ... Read more

    PHP348.65

  • Early Modern England and Islamic Worlds

    Edited by L. McJannet ...
    Series series History (R0)
    The essays in this book analyze a range of genres and considers geographical areas beyond the Ottoman Empire to deepen our post-Saidian understanding of the complexity of real and imagined "traffic" between England and the "Islamic worlds" it encountered and constructed. ... Read more

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  • الوقفية الغسّانية

    بعض أوقاف مدينة تعز في عهد دولة بني رسول والفتح العثماني الأول لليمن

    Series series Textes et documents sur la péninsule Arabique
    الوقفية الغسانية تحتوي على مسودات أوقاف تتناول ما أوقف من أوقاف على مصالح عامة في مدينة تعز في فترتي حكم الدولة الرسولية والاحتلال العثماني الأول لليمن. وقد حرص ولاة الدولة العثمانية في اليمن على نسخ ما وجدوا من مسودات أوقاف لحفظها من التمزق والضياع و تلاهم في هذا التقليد من أتى بعدهم من دول وحكام لبلاد اليمن وكان من نتاج هذا العمل ان تخلف عنه كم كبير من المسودات والدفاتر لم تجد طريقها للنشر بعد ... Read more

    PHP784.71

  • Mar de Sefarad

    "Poeta de raza. Poesía de desgarro, de añoranza, de desencuentro, de exilio. Poesía de amor a la vida. Vale la pena perderse en los versos de Mois Benarroch. Para disfrutar y reflexionar."Este es el libro de poesía más conocido y más vendido de Mois Benarroch, que incorpora Esquina en Tetuán, publicado la colección Esquío de Poesía, de que Julia Uceda dice: "Esquina en Tetuán representa mil años a ... Read more

    PHP615.37

  • Postcolonial Traumas

    Memory, Narrative, Resistance

    Edited by Abigail Ward ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This collection of essays explores some new possibilities for understanding postcolonial traumas. It examines representations of both personal and collective traumas around the globe from Palestinian, Caribbean, African American, South African, Maltese, Algerian, Indian, Australian and British writers, directors and artists. ... Read more

    PHP5,812.49

  • Signatures of Struggle

    The Figuration of Collectivity in Israeli Fiction

    by Oded Nir ...
    Series series SUNY series in Contemporary Jewish Literature and Culture
    A Marxist history of Israeli literature, tracing the relations between economic, social, and aesthetic transformations.Signatures of Struggle offers a unique perspective on Israeli literature, bringing Marxist cultural critique to bear on a field from which it has hitherto been absent. Oded Nir moves beyond the dominant interpretive horizon of Israeli literary criticism: the relation of literature ... Read more

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  • Rhetorische Strategien in Fatwas

    Eine vergleichende Analyse islamischer Rechtsgutachten von Ḥasanayn Muḥammad Maḫlūf und Muḥammad Rašīd Riḍā

    Series series J.B. Metzler Humanities (German Language)
    Dieses Buch untersucht, wie islamische Rechtsgelehrte im 20. Jahrhundert in ihren Rechtsgutachten (Fatwas) rhetorisch Autorität generieren und wie sich Traditionalismus und Reformdenken in den Argumentationsmustern, der Intertextualität sowie im Duktus dieser Texte niederschlagen. Damit bietet dieses Buch einen interdisziplinären Zugang zu islamischen Rechtstexten, deren sprachliche Realisierung ... Read more

    PHP4,224.79