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Suomalaisen eksegetiikan ja orientalistiikan juuria
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ISBN: 9789519021911 9519021914 Year: 1993 Publisher: Helsinki: Suomen kirkkohistoriallinen seura,

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Contemporary art in the Middle East
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ISBN: 1906155569 9781906155568 Year: 2009 Publisher: London : Black Dog,

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Studies in Near Eastern languages and literatures : memorial volume of Karel Petrácek
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ISBN: 8085425238 9788085425239 Year: 1996 Publisher: Prague : Academy of sciences of the Czech Republic, Oriental institute,

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A Hundred and One Nights.
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ISBN: 1479894966 1479873233 Year: 2017 Publisher: New York, NY : New York University Press,

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A luminous translation of Arabic tales of enchantment and wonderTranslated into English for the very first time, A Hundred and One Nights is a marvelous example of the rich tradition of popular Arabic storytelling. Like the celebrated Thousand and One Nights, this collection opens with the frame story of Scheherazade, the vizier’s gifted daughter who recounts imaginative tales night after night in an effort to distract the murderous king from taking her life. A Hundred and One Nights features an almost entirely different set of stories, however, each one more thrilling, amusing, and disturbing than the last. Here, we encounter tales of epic warriors, buried treasure, disappearing brides, cannibal demon-women, fatal shipwrecks, and clever ruses, where human strength and ingenuity play out against a backdrop of inexorable, inscrutable fate. Distinctly rooted in Arabic literary culture and the Islamic tradition, these tales draw on motifs and story elements that circulated across cultures, including Indian and Chinese antecedents, and features a frame story possibly older than its more famous sibling. This vibrant translation of A Hundred and One Nights promises to transport readers, new and veteran alike, into its fantastical realms of magic and wonder.


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Concerto al-Quds
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ISBN: 0300231563 0300197640 Year: 2017 Publisher: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press,

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A cri de cœur or fully imagined poem on the myth and history of Jerusalem/Al-Quds from the author revered as the greatest living Arabic poet At the age of eighty-six, Adonis, an Arabic poet with Syrian origins, a critic, an essayist, and a devoted secularist, has come out of retirement to pen an extended, innovative poem on Jerusalem/Al-Quds. It is a hymn to a troubled city embattled by the conflicting demands of Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Adonis's city, as a coveted land, ought to suggest the universal love of humanity; as a land of tragedy, a place of contending history and beliefs, and a locus of bitterness, conflict, hatred, rivalry, and blood. Wrapping multiple voices, historical references, and political viewpoints within his ecstatic lyricism, Adonis has created a provocative work of unique beauty and profound wisdom, beautifully rendered in English by award-winning poet Khaled Mattawa.


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The slave yards
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ISBN: 0815611250 0815655096 9780815655091 9780815611257 Year: 2020 Publisher: Syracuse, New York

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"Set in nineteenth-century Ottoman North Africa, The Slave Yards is a heartrending and unexpected love story whose riveting events draw readers into a matrix of social, political, sexual and religious themes that open a window for us into a dark, untold chapter of Libyan history"--


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Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXIV : papers form the annual symposium on Arabic linguistics, Tucson, Arizona 2020
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ISBN: 9789027254948 Year: 2023 Publisher: Amsterdam John Benjamins Publishing Company

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This volume brings together eleven peer-reviewed articles on Arabic linguistics. The contributions fall under three areas of linguistics: Phonology and phonetics; syntax and semantics; and language acquisition, language contact, and diglossia. They reflect some various perspectives and emphases. Including data from North African, Levantine, and Gulf varieties, Standard Arabic, as well as Arabic varieties spoken in diaspora, these articles address issues that range from sibilant merging, raising, lexicalization, agreement, to diglossia, dialect contact, and language acquisition in heritage speakers. The book is valuable reading for linguists in general and for those working on descriptive and theoretical aspects of Arabic linguistics in particular.


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The Origins of Modern Arabic Fiction
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ISBN: 9781685858186 168585818X Year: 2023 Publisher: Boulder

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The first edition of this book, completed in 1970, was hailed as a major contribution to scholarship on the development of Arabic fiction in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In this revised and greatly expanded second edition, Matti Moosa has added five entirely new chapters—one on the popular dialogues of Abd Allah Nadim, and four devoted to twentieth century fiction culminating with the novels of Maguib Mahfouz. He has also incorporated the results of more than two decades of fresh research. Moosa's exhaustive discussion, demonstrating the influence of both Western and Islamic ideology and culture, presents many works of fiction for the first time to Western students of Arabic literature.


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Tawfiq al-Hakim
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ISBN: 9781626375048 1626375046 Year: 2023 Publisher: Boulder

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Tawfiq al-Hakim (1898-1987) dedicated much of his long life to a fruitful attempt to advance the fortunes of twentieth century Arabic literature by writing it. This guide to his work provides paths for readers through his multiple literary worlds. Chapters on his personal history, his novels, plays, short stories, and essays, his Islamic feminism, and his theology are enhanced by a discussion of reactions in the Arab world to his writing. The book also includes plot summaries, a chronology of al-Hakim's life, and a comprehensive annotated bibliography.


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Götter und Mythen im vorderen Orient
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Year: 1965 Publisher: Stuttgart : Klett,

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