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  • The Essential Tawfiq al-Hakim

    Great Egyptian Writers

    The importance of Tawfiq al-Hakim (1898 to 1989) to the emergence of a modern Arabic literature is second only to that of Naguib Mahfouz. If the latter put the novel among the genres of writing that are now an accepted part of literary production in the Arab world today, Tawfiq al-Hakim is recognized as the undisputed creator of a literature of the theater. In this volume, Tawfiq al-Hakim's fame ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On Earth or in Poems

    The Many Lives of al-Andalus

    “With extraordinary linguistic range, Calderwood brings us the voices of Arabs and Muslims who have turned to the distant past of Spain to imagine their future.”—Hussein Fancy, Yale UniversityHow the memory of Muslim Iberia shapes art and politics from New York and Cordoba to Cairo and the West Bank.During the Middle Ages, the Iberian Peninsula was home not to Spain and Portugal but rather to al ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights

    Volume 3

    Series Book 3 - The Arabian Nights
    Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier's daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king tales of adventure, love, riches and wonder - tales of mystical lands peopled with princes and hunchbacks, the Angel of Death and magical spirits, tales of the voyages of ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights

    Volume 2

    Series Book 2 - The Arabian Nights
    Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier's daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king tales of adventure, love, riches and wonder - tales of mystical lands peopled with princes and hunchbacks, the Angel of Death and magical spirits, tales of the voyages of ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Kite Runner: Study Guide

    The Kite Runner, Study Review Guide, Khaled Hosseini

    Series series Total Class Notes Study Guides
    Don't want to read the actual book? Tired of reading super long reviews? This new study guide is perfect for you!! This study guide provides a short and concise review guide of The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. The guide includes:· A short summary of the entire novel· The major themes and their relationship to the storyline· A character guide with brief details on each role· Bullet-point chapter ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Stranger Magic

    Charmed States and the Arabian Nights

    by Marina Warner ...
    Our foremost theorist of myth, fairytales, and folktales explores the magical realm of the imagination where carpets fly, objects speak, dreams reveal hidden truths, and genies grant prophetic wishes. Stranger Magic examines the wondrous tales of the Arabian Nights, their profound impact on the West, and the progressive exoticization of magic since the eighteenth century, when the first European ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Complete Works of Kahlil Gibran

    All poems and short stories

    by Kahlil Gibran ...
    Series series Global Classics
    Kahlil Gibran is one of the most popular poets of all time. His words have the power to move emotions, inspire creativity, and transform lives. He produced some of the world’s most remarkable poems and philosophical essays throughout his almost thirty-year career. This enriching collection of his works includes more than 150 of his stories, prose poems, verse, parables, and autobiographical essays ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gilgamesh

    The Life of a Poem

    Reflections on a lost poem and its rediscovery by contemporary poetsGilgamesh is the most ancient long poem known to exist. It is also the newest classic in the canon of world literature. Lost for centuries to the sands of the Middle East but found again in the 1850s, it tells the story of a great king, his heroism, and his eventual defeat. It is a story of monsters, gods, and cataclysms, and of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Gilgamesh

    A New Translation of the Ancient Epic

    by Sophus Helle ...
    A poem for the ages, freshly and accessibly translated by an international rising star, bringing together scholarly precision and poetic graceGilgamesh is a Babylonian epic from three thousand years ago, which tells of King Gilgamesh’s deep love for the wild man Enkidu and his pursuit of immortality when Enkidu dies. It is a story about love between men, loss and grief, the confrontation with ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Tale of Genji

    The Tale of GenjiCHAPTER ITHE CHAMBER OF KIRIIn the reign of a certain Emperor, whose name is unknown to us, there was, among the Niogo and Kôyi of the Imperial Court, one who, though she was not of high birth, enjoyed the full tide of Royal favor. Hence her superiors, each one of whom had always been thinking—"I shall be the one," gazed upon her disdainfully with malignant eyes, and her equals ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes

    The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition

    Series series Myth and Poetics
    An astonishingly rich oral epic that chronicles the early history of a Bedouin tribe, the Sirat Bani Hilal has been performed for almost a thousand years. In this ethnography of a contemporary community of professional poet-singers, Dwight F. Reynolds reveals how the epic tradition continues to provide a context for social interaction and commentary. Reynolds’s account is based on performances in ... Read more

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  • Reforming Modernity

    Ethics and the New Human in the Philosophy of Abdurrahman Taha

    by Wael Hallaq ...
    Reforming Modernity is a sweeping intellectual history and philosophical reflection built around the work of the Morocco-based philosopher Abdurrahman Taha, one of the most significant philosophers in the Islamic world since the colonial era. Wael B. Hallaq contends that Taha is at the forefront of forging a new, non-Western-centric philosophical tradition. He explores how Taha’s philosophical ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Jasmine and Stars

    Reading More Than Lolita in Tehran

    Series series Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks
    In a direct, frank, and intimate exploration of Iranian literature and society, scholar, teacher, and poet Fatemeh Keshavarz challenges popular perceptions of Iran as a society bereft of vitality and joy. Her fresh perspective on present-day Iran provides a rare insight into this rich culture alive with artistic expression but virtually unknown to most Americans.Keshavarz introduces readers to two ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Abundance from the Desert

    Classical Arabic Poetry

    Series series Middle East Literature In Translation
    Abundance from the Desert provides a comprehensive introduction to classical Arabic poetry, one of the richest of poetic traditions. Covering the period roughly of 500-1250 c.e., it features original translations and illuminating discussions of a number of major classical Arabic poems from a variety of genres. The poems are presented chronologically, each situated within a specific historical and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lost Wisdom

    Rethinking Modernity in Iran

    by Abbas Milani ...
    In the essays collected here, Abbas Milani uses an impressive array of cross-disciplinary Western and Iranian theories and texts to investigate the crucial question of modernity in Iran today. He offers a wealth of new insights into the thousand-year-old conflict in Iran between the search for modernity and the forces of religious obscurantism. The essays trace the roots of Shiite Islamic ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Worlding of Arabic Literature

    Language, Affect, and the Ethics of Translatability

    Critics have long viewed translating Arabic literature into English as an ethically fraught process of mediating between two wholly incommensurable languages, cultures, and literary traditions. Today, Arabic literature is no longer “embargoed” from Anglophone cultural spaces, as Edward Said once famously claimed that it was. As Arabic literary works are translated into English in ever-greater ... Read more

    Free

  • Ancient Egypt: Pyramids and Pharaohs

    Egyptian Books for Kids

    Series series Children's Ancient History Books
    Bring ancient Egypt back to life with this fun educational book! What makes this book unique is that it tackles the subject of pharaohs and pyramids in a highly interactive way. There are only a handful of texts included so there’s more space for pictures, and the imagination. Go ahead and secure a copy of this learning resource today! ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • بنية الخطاب في القرآن الكريم: التكوين والأسلوب (الجزء الأول - الكتاب الثاني)

    بنية الخطاب في القرآن الكريم: التكوين والأسلوب, #2

    Series Book 2 - بنية الخطاب في القرآن الكريم: التكوين والأسلوب
    كتاب "بنية الخطاب في القرآن الكريم: التكوين والأسلوب" هو كتاب متميز في مجاله يأتينا من إحدى العقول المتميزة في مجال الدراسات القرآنية واللغوية، الدكتور دسوقي إبراهيم. يعرض الكتاب تحليلاً دقيقًا للبنية الخطابية في القرآن الكريم، مع التركيز على التكوين والأسلوب الذي يميز القرآن كنصٍ فريد.يهدف الكتاب إلى فهم عميق لبنية الخطاب في القرآن، وكيفية استخدامها لنقل المعاني وتأثيرها على المستمعين والقراء. ... Read more

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  • City of Beginnings

    Poetic Modernism in Beirut

    Series Book 41 - Translation/Transnation
    How poetic modernism shaped Arabic intellectual debates in the twentieth century and beyondCity of Beginnings is an exploration of modernism in Arabic poetry, a movement that emerged in Beirut during the 1950s and became the most influential and controversial Arabic literary development of the twentieth century. Robyn Creswell introduces English-language readers to a poetic movement that will be ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • بنية الخطاب في القرآن الكريم: التكوين والأسلوب -الجزء الأول (الكتاب الأول)

    بنية الخطاب في القرآن الكريم: التكوين والأسلوب, #1

    Series Book 1 - بنية الخطاب في القرآن الكريم: التكوين والأسلوب
    كتاب "بنية الخطاب في القرآن الكريم: التكوين والأسلوب" هو كتاب متميز في مجاله يأتينا من إحدى العقول المتميزة في مجال الدراسات القرآنية واللغوية، الدكتور دسوقي إبراهيم. يعرض الكتاب تحليلاً دقيقًا للبنية الخطابية في القرآن الكريم، مع التركيز على التكوين والأسلوب الذي يميز القرآن كنصٍ فريد.يهدف الكتاب إلى فهم عميق لبنية الخطاب في القرآن، وكيفية استخدامها لنقل المعاني وتأثيرها على المستمعين والقراء. ... Read more

    Free

  • Erotica, Love and Humor in Arabia

    Spicy Stories from The Book of Songs by al-Isfahani

    The Book of Songs of Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani (AD 897-971) is the most extensive collection of anecdotes from pre-Islam Mecca, Medina, Damascus and Baghdad to the beginning of the tenth century. Entertaining and informative, these gems have remained largely inaccessible to Western readers. This translation presents a collection of love stories and poems, biting satires, daring erotic encounters, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History

    A Forgotten Heritage

    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    Arabic culture was a central and shaping phenomenon in medieval Europe, yet its influence on medieval literature has been ignored or marginalized for the last two centuries. In this ground-breaking book, now returned to print with a new afterword by the author, María Rosa Menocal argues that major modifications of the medieval canon and its literary history are necessary.Menocal reviews the Arabic ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Pearl of Dari

    Poetry and Personhood among Young Afghans in Iran

    Series series Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
    The Pearl of Dari takes us into the heart of Afghan refugee life in the Islamic Republic of Iran through a rich ethnographic portrait of the circle of poets and intellectuals who make up the "Pearl of Dari" cultural organization. Dari is the name by which the Persian language is known in Afghanistan. Afghan immigrants in Iran, refugees from the Soviet war in Afghanistan, are marginalized and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Entretiens d’un sceptique et d’un croyant sur l’orthodoxie de l’Église orientale

    Le sceptique. — Je cherche la vérité. Je désire appartenir à la vraie Église. Je veux obtenir le salut.Le croyant. — Si ces désirs sont sincères, le Seigneur lui-même vous répond : « Je suis le chemin, la vérité et la vie[1]. » — « Où il y a deux ou trois personnes assemblées en mon nom, je suis au milieu d’elles[2]. »S. — Mais maintenant plusieurs communions différentes entre elles s’assemblent ... Read more

    $2.76 USD