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Series series Contemporary Arab World. Literary and Linguistic Issues
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Translation and Modernity

by Ghareeb Iskander ...

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This is the first study to examine the Arabic translations of a number of major modern poems in the English language, in particular T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land and Walt Whitman's Song of Myself. With case studies dedicated to the Arab translators who were themselves modernist poets, including Badr Shakir al-Sayyab and Saadi Yusuf, the author brings a reading of the translations as literary works
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by Hany Rashwan ...

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A groundbreaking study of the relationship between ancient Egyptian literary devices and their Arabic counterpartsThis book is the first of its kind to thoroughly and systematically compare ancient Egyptian and Arabic literary devices. Hany Rashwan compares the stylistic Arabic literary device of jinās, or word play, a key literary device pervading medieval and modern Arabic poetry, literary prose
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Sa'di in Love

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by Homa Katouzian ...

'In the breath that I die, for you I'll be longing/ Wishing to turn into the dust of your belonging' - Sa'di, Expressions of Love. With poetry which speaks across the ages, Sa'di (1210-1281) is a vital classical poet and a towering figure of the medieval Persian canon. Comparable in skill and stature to other Persian poets such as Ferdowsi, Hafez, Rumi and Omar Khayyam, Sa'di's verses--best known ... Read more

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'In the breath that I die, for you I'll be longing/ Wishing to turn into the dust of your belonging' - Sa'di, Expressions of Love. With poetry which speaks across the ages, Sa'di (1210-1281) is a vital classical poet and a towering figure of the medieval Persian canon. Comparable in skill and stature to other Persian poets such as Ferdowsi, Hafez, Rumi and Omar Khayyam, Sa'di's verses--best known
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الصهيونية العالمية

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عباس محمود العقاد أديب ومفكر وصحفي وشاعر مصري، ولد في أسوان عام 1889م، وهو عضو سابق في مجلس النواب المصري، وعضو في مجمع اللغة العربية، لم يتوقف إنتاجه الأدبي بالرغم من الظروف القاسية التي مر بها؛ حيث كان يكتب المقالات ويرسلها إلى مجلة فصول، كما كان يترجم لها بعض الموضوعات، ويعد العقاد أحد أهم كتاب القرن العشرين في مصرملخص الكتابطرُق كلمة «الصهيونية» أسماعنا بشكل مُتكرر في وسائل الإعلام المختلفة، ... Read more

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عباس محمود العقاد أديب ومفكر وصحفي وشاعر مصري، ولد في أسوان عام 1889م، وهو عضو سابق في مجلس النواب المصري، وعضو في مجمع اللغة العربية، لم يتوقف إنتاجه الأدبي بالرغم من الظروف القاسية التي مر بها؛ حيث كان يكتب المقالات ويرسلها إلى مجلة فصول، كما كان يترجم لها بعض الموضوعات، ويعد العقاد أحد أهم كتاب القرن العشرين في مصرملخص الكتابطرُق كلمة «الصهيونية» أسماعنا بشكل مُتكرر في وسائل الإعلام المختلفة،
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Cry of the Turtledove

by A. S. Lazikani ...

Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
This book offers a comparative study of emotion in Arabic Islamic and English Christian contemplative texts, c. 1110-1250, contributing to the emerging interest in ‘globalization’ in medieval studies. A.S.Lazikani argues for the necessity of placing medieval English devotional texts in a more global context and seeks to modify influential narratives on the ‘history of emotions’ to enable this more ... Read more

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This book offers a comparative study of emotion in Arabic Islamic and English Christian contemplative texts, c. 1110-1250, contributing to the emerging interest in ‘globalization’ in medieval studies. A.S.Lazikani argues for the necessity of placing medieval English devotional texts in a more global context and seeks to modify influential narratives on the ‘history of emotions’ to enable this more
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