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Dit boek is de weerslag van ruim twintig jaar intensieve betrokkenheid bij de Arabische wereld. Helder en scherpzinnig, maar ook gedreven in zijn liefde voor de eeuwenoude cultuur van de bedoeïenen, is Kurpershoek ook internationaal gezien een van de interessantste maar vooral ook lezenswaardigste schrijvers over de Arabische wereld.

Islam --- Arab States --- Arab states

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This work presents the complete collection of oral poetry of a bedouin poet in Central Arabia-transcribed and translated on the basis of taped recordings-, an extensive glossary, and chapters on i.a. the Najdi tradition in poetry, linguistic features, and prosody. This work presents the complete collection of oral poetry by ad-Dindān, a bedouin poet of the Duwāsir tribe in southern Najd, transcribed and translated on the basis of taped recordings. The text is representative of a poetic tradition which has remained remarkably close to the desert poetry of the early classical age. An extensive glossary, including detailed cross-references to the classical Arabic vocabulary, completes this edition. The introduction describes Dindān's somewhat anomalous position in local society as a result of his stubborn attachment to nomadism, his fierce artistic temper, and his unreconstructed bedouin ethos. It also discusses the composition of oral poetry, the dīwān 's themes and its place in the Najdi tradition, the impact of literacy on the poet's oral work, and the prosodic and linguistic features of the text.

Arabic poetry --- Arabic poetry --- Arabic poetry --- Dialect poetry, Arabic --- Dialect poetry, Arabic --- Bedouin authors --- History and criticism --- Translations into English --- Translations into English

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This volume presents in translation and transcription the oral text of narratives about and poems by Šlēwīḥ, one of Arabia's most famous nineteenth-century robber barons, recorded by Xālid, a sheikh of the 'Utaybah tribe of Saudi Arabia and the great-grandson of Šlēwīḥ. The Story of a Desert Knight is the second volume of a trilogy entitled Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia . It is devoted to the narratives told about and the poems composed by Šlēwīḥ al-'Aṭāwi and his brother Bxīt, both famous desert knights in the middle and second half of the nineteenth century. The principal source of this book is Šlēwīḥ's great-grandson Xālid, a sheikh of the 'Utaybah tribe. The introduction discusses inter alia the general characteristics of Bedouin oral culture, the linguistic, prosodic and stylistic features of the text, and Xālid's use of his ancestors' oral legacy in order to enhance his position in the tribal hierarchy of prestige. In addition to the translation of the oral text this volume offers a complete transcription, based on taped records and including variants found in published Saudi sources, and a substantial glossary.

Arabic poetry --- Dialect poetry, Arabic --- Bedouin authors --- History and criticism --- Translations into English

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Graham E. Fuller brings a lifetime of experience in the Muslim world to shed light on how common, even universal, political behavior takes on a distinctively Islamic guise in the Muslim world. By examining the social, economic and political context, he explains that the struggle between the fundamentalists and liberals will determine the future of political Islam. This sweeping survey of trends in the Muslim world, from Morocco to the Philippines, explores the diversity of Islamic political activity and makes clear that Islamic political movements represent a broad spectrum of outlook and behavior. Whether traditional or liberal, these movements have become an important vehicle for the concerns, aspirations and grievances of vast numbers of Muslims worldwide and are a natural outgrowth of Muslim history. Fuller contends that while political Islam is the dominant intellectual current, a focus on radicalism and extremism blinds us from another trend: liberal political Islam. The issues are not what is Islam, but what Muslims want, and not whether Islam will play a central role in politics, but which Islam. As Islam has become the vocabulary for political and social expression, it has come to serve various agendas.

Islam and politics. --- Islamic fundamentalism. --- Islam --- Religious fundamentalism --- Fundamentalism, Islamic --- Islamism --- Political science --- Politics and Islam --- Political aspects