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Man of letters and self-taught editor, polygraph with an encyclopedic culture, willingly moralist, Ğurğ Zaydān (Beirut, 1861 - Cairo, 1914) was also the bearer of a coherent educational and social project: that of guiding his readers in a changing world, by giving them both a reform of their individual and collective behaviour and a new look at their time and their history through the concept of "rebirth". His work took on its full dimension at the turn of 1908: the Young Turkish Revolution led him to question Arab and Ottoman politics while the new Egyptian university brought him a potential academic consecration.He was then exposed to controversies having for stake the place of Islam in Arab societies and the nations in the making. The biography of Ğurğ Zaydān offered here does not separate his life from his work. It can be read on two levels: what he lived and how he lived it. Because he was able to translate for the "general public" the tension he personally felt between openness to others and the quest for his own identity, he was a successful writer for a long time, and remains until today Today is a tremendous witness to the dynamics of Westernisation, of the way cultures of foreign origin have been received in Arab culture.

Authors, Arab --- Languages & Literatures --- Middle Eastern Languages & Literatures --- Syrie --- nationalisme arabe --- renaissance rabe --- Nahda --- Zaydān, Jirjī,

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Taha Hussein (1889–1973) is one of Egypt's most iconic figures. A graduate of al-Azhar, Egypt's oldest university, a civil servant and public intellectual, and ultimately Egyptian Minister of Public Instruction, Hussein was central to key social and political developments in Egypt during the parliamentary period between 1922 and 1952. Influential in the introduction of a new secular university and a burgeoning press in Egypt—and prominent in public debates over nationalism and the roles of religion, women, and education in making a modern independent nation—Hussein remains a subject of continued admiration and controversy to this day. The Last Nahdawi offers the first biography of Hussein in which his intellectual outlook and public career are taken equally seriously. Examining Hussein's actions against the backdrop of his complex relationship with the Egyptian state, the religious establishment, and the French government, Hussam R. Ahmed reveals modern Egypt's cultural influence in the Arab and Islamic world within the various structural changes and political processes of the parliamentary period. Ahmed offers both a history of modern state formation, revealing how the Egyptian state came to hold such a strong grip over culture and education—and a compelling examination of the life of the country's most renowned intellectual.

Intellectuals --- Ḥusayn, Ṭāhā, --- Political and social views. --- Egypt --- Cultural policy --- History --- Politics and government --- Taha Hussein. --- adab. --- cultural history. --- democracy. --- humanism. --- institutional history. --- nahda. --- parliamentary Egypt. --- social history. --- university.

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In a series of exquisite close readings of Arabic and Arab Jewish writing, Jeffrey Sacks considers the relation of poetic statement to individual and collective loss, the dispossession of peoples and languages, and singular events of destruction in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. Addressing the work of Mahmoud Darwish, Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, Elias Khoury, Edmond Amran El Maleh, Shimon Ballas, and Taha Husayn, Sacks demonstrates the reiterated incursion of loss into the time of life—losses that language declines to mourn. Language occurs as the iteration of loss, confounding its domestication in the form of the monolingual state in the Arabic nineteenth century’s fallout.Reading the late lyric poetry of the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish in relation to the destruction of Palestine in 1948, Sacks reconsiders the nineteenth century Arabic nahda and its relation to colonialism, philology, and the European Enlightenment. He argues that this event is one of catastrophic loss, wherein the past suddenly appears as if it belonged to another time. Reading al-Shidyaq’s al-Saq ‘ala al-saq (1855) and the legacies to which it points in post-1948 writing in Arabic, Hebrew, and French, Sacks underlines a displacement and relocation of the Arabic word adab and its practice, offering a novel contribution to Arabic and Middle East Studies, critical theory, poetics, aesthetics, and comparative literature.Drawing on writings of Jacques Derrida, Walter Benjamin, Avital Ronell, Judith Butler, Theodor Adorno, and Edward W. Said, Iterations of Loss shows that language interrupts its pacification as an event of aesthetic coherency, to suggest that literary comparison does not privilege a renewed giving of sense but gives place to a new sense of relation.

Hebrew literature --- Arabic literature --- Arabic literature --- Arab-Israeli conflict --- Violence in literature. --- Psychic trauma in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism. --- Literature and the conflict. --- Aesthetics. --- Arabic. --- Darwish. --- Enlightenment. --- Loss. --- Nahda. --- Palestine. --- Philology. --- al-Shidyaq. --- mourning. --- poetics.

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This anthology brings the key writings on translation in Arabic in the pre-modern era, extending from the earliest times (6th Century CE) until the end of World War I, to a global English-speaking audience. The texts are arranged chronologically and organized by two historical periods: the Classical Period, and the Nahda Period. Each text is preceded by an introduction about the selected text and author, placing the work in context, and discussing its significance. The texts are complemented with a theoretical commentary, discussing the significance for the contemporary period and modern theory. A general introduction covers the historical context, main trends, research interests, and main findings and conclusions. The two appendices provide statistical data of the corpus on which the anthology is based, over 500 texts of varying lengths extending throughout the entire period of study. This collection contributes to the development of a more inclusive and global history of translation and interpreting. Translated, edited, and analyzed by leading scholars, this anthology is an invaluable resource for researchers, students, and translators interested in translation studies, Arab/Islamic history, and Arabic language and literature, as well as Islamic theology, linguistics, and the history of science.

Arabic language --- Translating and interpreting --- Translating. --- History. --- Interpretation and translation --- Interpreting and translating --- Language and languages --- Literature --- Translation and interpretation --- Translators --- Translating --- Anthology of Arabic Discourse on Translation;Arabic Discourse on Translation;Classical Period;Holy Scriptures in Arabic;Interpreters in wars;Interpreting for Judges and Rulers;Mona Baker;Myriam Salama-Carr;Nahda Period;Protestant Translation of the Bible;Tarek Shamma;Translation and Islamic History;Translation in Islamic History;Translation in the Arab World;Translation of the gospel of Barnabas;Translation of the Quran;Translation of the Torah

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"The fertile land of the five rivers (punj+ab in Persian) has persistently stirred the imagination of its peoples. Its story is the story of invasion. In 326 BCE Alexander the Great marched through the Hindu Kush, conquered the verdant plains now divided between India and Pakistan, and stamped Greek cultural and linguistic influence on the region. Over the centuries the lure of the Punjab attracted further waves of outsiders: Scythians, Sassanians, Huns, Afghans, Turks, Mughals and - closer to our own times - the British. Many savage battles were fought. But at the same time, as different ethnic and religious groups came together and melded, the collective psyche of the Punjab was coloured by vibrant new patterns, new worldviews and new languages. Punjabi poetry is the dynamic result of these cross-cultural encounters. In her rich and diverse anthology, Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh makes a major contribution to interfaith dialogue and comparative literary studies. Covering the entire spectrum of writers, from the artistic patterns of the first Punjabi poet (Baba Farid, 1173-1265) to feminist author Amrita Pritam (d. 2005), the volume serves as an ideal introduction to the three faiths of Sikhism, Islam and Hinduism. Whether focusing on Sikh gurus or Sufi saints, it boldly illuminates the area's unique character, linguistic rhythms and celebrations, and will have strong appeal to undergraduate students of religion, literature and South Asian studies, as well as general readers."--Bloomsbury publishing.

Islam and politics --- Islamophobia --- Islam et politique --- Islamophobie --- Islam --- 297 <4> --- #SBIB:316.331H330 --- #SBIB:316.331H421 --- #SBIB:39A10 --- Islam. Mohammedanisme--Europa --- Godsdienst en politiek: algemeen --- Morfologie van de godsdiensten: Islam --- Antropologie: religie, riten, magie, hekserij --- Islam and politics - Europe --- Islam - Europe --- Islamophobia - Europe --- Islam and politics. --- Islam. --- Islamic movements --- the Muslim Brotherhood --- Milli Görüs --- the Jama'at-i Islami --- Tablighi Jama'at --- the Wahhabiya --- Saudi Arabia --- the Salafist movement --- Hizb ut-Tahrir --- Harakat al-Nahda and Islamic movements in Tunisia --- the Moroccan Islamist movement --- the Islamic movement in Algeria --- politics of Islamism --- Islamic movements in Europe --- Spain --- Germany --- Islamische Gemeinschaft in Deutschland --- Islamische Zentren --- German Muslim youth --- Muslimische Jugend in Deutschland --- the Union of Islamic Organisation of France --- the Muslim Asociation of Britain --- the Union of Islamic Communities and Organisations --- UCOII --- Italy --- the European Council for Fatwa and Research --- Yusuf al-Qaradawi --- Islamische Gemeinschaft Milli Görüs --- IGMG --- the Caliphate State --- the Islamic Federation of Belgium --- FIB --- the Netherlands --- Denmark --- Salafist groups --- Salafist politics in the Netherlands --- Salafi doctrine --- Salafism --- Salafist-jihadist groups --- Jihadi movements in the United Kingdom --- Abu Hamza al-Masri --- Shari'a --- Al-Muhajirun --- Al-Ghuraba' --- virtual jihadist media --- laïcité and piety --- Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami --- Muslim representative bodies --- Al-'Adl wa-l-Ihsan --- the Islamic foundation in the United Kingdom --- Sheikh Abdalqadir al-Murabit --- Süleymanlis --- the Süleymanli movement --- the Muslim Council of Britain --- pious lay preaching --- political lobbying --- German Muslim federations --- Zentralrat der Muslime in Deutschland --- Koordinierungsrat der Muslime --- Islamic guidance and public debates --- imams --- chaplains --- de-radicalisation --- radicalisation --- moderation --- integration --- the German debate about imams --- imams in Belgium --- imams and radicalisation --- prison and processes of radicalisation --- Rashid al-Ghannushi --- Tariq Ramadan --- Islamic knowledge and education --- Islam classes --- Islamic higher education --- the Islamic University of Rotterdam --- the Dutch written media --- Islamic education in Germany --- Institut für Interreligiöse Pädagogik und Didaktik, Cologne --- Zentrum für Islamische Frauenförderung und Forschung --- l'Institut Européen des Sciences Humaines --- Muslim internet sites in Denmark --- Muslim free schools in Denmark --- Federation of Student Islamic Societies --- FOSIS --- Muslims at British universities --- Islamism and Islamophobia --- Brussels --- fear --- otherness --- radical Islam in France --- the headscarf affair --- Islam in German public culture --- 'Pig Day' --- tolerance --- identity and secularism --- the British National Party --- anti-Muslim politics --- the politics of fear