Night & Horses & The Desert - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Night & Horses & The Desert write by Robert Irwin. This book was released on 2016-06-21. Night & Horses & The Desert available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of Arabic literature is “a joy to read. . . . a journey through eleven centuries of a lost world, with a surprise on almost every page” (Financial Times). Spanning the fifth to the sixteenth centuries, from Afghanistan to Spain, Night & Horses & The Desert includes translated extracts from all the major classics in an invaluable introduction to the subject of classical Arabic literature. Robert Irwin has selected a wide range of poetry and prose in translation, from the most important and typical texts to the very obscure. Alongside the extracts, Irwin’s copious commentary and notes provide an explanatory history of the subject. What were the various genres and to what extent were they constrained by rules? What were the canons of traditional Arabic literary criticism? How were Arabic prose and poetry recited and written down? Irwin explores the literary environments of the desert, salon, mosque, and bookshop and provides brief biographies of the caliphs, princesses, warriors, scribes, dandies, and mystics who created such a rich and diverse literary culture. Night & Horses & The Desert gives western readers a unique taste of the sheer vitality and depth of the medieval Arab past. “Superb . . . . a revelation.” —The Washington Post “[A] treasure-house of a book. . . . Unequaled for scholarship and entertainment.” —The Independent
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_______ ________ - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook _______ ________ write by G. J. H. van Gelder. This book was released on 2013. _______ ________ available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Verse and prose, from the 6th century CE (pre-Islamic) to the early 18th century CE.
An Anthology of Arabic Literature
An Anthology of Arabic Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Anthology of Arabic Literature write by Tarif Khalidi. This book was released on 2016. An Anthology of Arabic Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Covers a wide thematic and chronological spread that includes both verse and prose. Contains newly-translated texts on a range of subjects such as the occult sciences, heresy, psychological reflections, literary theory, sexual etiquette, man and nature, geographical observations, and reflections on world history. Includes extracts from philosophers, theologians and scientists. Provides marginal glosses to explain key terms, figures and moments.
Modern Arabic Fiction
Modern Arabic Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Modern Arabic Fiction write by Salma Khadra Jayyusi. This book was released on 2005. Modern Arabic Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Beginning with the late-nineteenth-century cultural resurgence and continuing through the present day, short stories and novels have given voice to the personal and historical experiences of modern Arabs. This anthology offers a rich and diverse selection of works from more than one hundred and forty prominent Arab writers of fiction. The collection reflects Arab writers' formal inventiveness as well as their intense exploration of various dimensions of modern Arab life, including the impact of modernity, the rise of the oil economy, political authoritarianism, corruption, religion, poverty, and the Palestinian experience in modern times. Salma Khadra Jayyusi, a renowned scholar of Arabic literature, has included short stories and excerpts from novels from authors in every Arab country. Modern Arabic Fiction contains writings stretching from the pioneering work of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century authors to the novels of Naguib Mahfouz and the stories of contemporary Arab writers. In addition to familiar names such as Mahfouz, the anthology presents excerpts from writers well known in the Arab world but just beginning to find an audience in the West, including early twentieth century Christian Lebanese writer Jurji Zaydan, whose historical epics were eye-openers for generations of Arab readers to the achievements of medieval Islamic civilization; Yusuf Idris's complex and brilliant portrait of Egypt's poor; 'Abd al-Rahman Muneef's searing exploration of the ecological and social impact of oil production; Palestinian writer Jabra Ibrahim Jabra's sophisticated description of the dilemma's of modern Arab intellectuals; and Jamal al-Ghitani's impressive employment of mythical time and the continuity of the past in the present. Jayyusi provides biographical information on the writers as well as a substantial and illuminating introduction to the development of modern Arabic fictional genres that considers the central thematic and aesthetic concerns of Arab short story writers and novelists.
Anthology of Arabic Literature
Anthology of Arabic Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Anthology of Arabic Literature write by Tarif Khalidi. This book was released on 2016-03-16. Anthology of Arabic Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Introducing readers to the extremely rich tradition of Arabic literature, this Anthology covers some of its major themes and concerns across the centuries, from its early beginnings to modern times. The texts chosen are a 'library of personal preferences' of a scholar who has spent half a century or more in the company of Arabic books, marking then translating those passages that seemed to him to capture some of its most memorable moments. Reflecting the great diversity and unpredictability of Arabic literature as the carrier of a major world culture, both pre-modern and modern, the Anthology is divided thematically to highlight modern issues such as love, religion, the human self, human rights, freedom of expression, the environment, violence, secular thought, and feminism. The short, easy-to-read texts are accessible to non-specialists, providing an ideal entry point to this extraordinary literature.
