Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...

Middle Eastern eBooks

If you like Middle Eastern eBooks, then you'll love these top picks.
Showing 1 - 24 of 470 Results
Skip side bar filters
  • The Medievalism of Lawrence of Arabia

    M. D. Allen's study deals with T. E. Lawrence's lifelong interest in the medieval world, especially medieval literature, and its considerable influence on his view of himself and of the Arabs with whom he fought in an archaic theater of war, and hence his own literary production.The Medievalism of Lawrence of Arabia investigates the influence Lawrence's interest in medieval life and literature had ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • A Matter of Fate

    The Concept of Fate in the Arab World as Reflected in Modern Arabic Literature

    Dalya Cohen-Mor examines the evolution of the concept of fate in the Arab world through readings of religious texts, poetry, fiction, and folklore. She contends that belief in fate has retained its vitality and continues to play a pivotal role in the Arabs' outlook on life and their social psychology. Interwoven with the chapters are 16 modern short stories that further illuminate this fascinating ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

  • Wedded to the Land?

    Gender, Boundaries, and Nationalism in Crisis

    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    In Wedded to the Land? Mary N. Layoun offers a critical commentary on the idea of nationalism in general and on specific attempts to formulate alternatives to the concept in particular. Narratives surrounding three geographically and temporally different national crises form the center of her study: Greek refugees’ displacement from Asia Minor into Greece in 1922, the 1974 right-wing Cypriot coup ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • West of the Jordan

    A Novel

    by Laila Halaby ...
    Series Book 19 - Bluestreak
    This is a brilliant and revelatory first novel by a woman who is both an Arab and an American, who speaks with both voices and understands both worlds. Through the narratives of four cousins at the brink of maturity, Laila Halaby immerses her readers in the lives, friendships, and loves of girls struggling with national, ethnic, and sexual identities. Mawal is the stable one, living steeped in the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Structure and Meaning in Medieval Arabic and Persian Lyric Poetry

    Orient Pearls

    by Julie Meisami ...
    Series series Culture and Civilization in the Middle East
    This is the first comprehensive and comparative study of compositional and stylistic techniques in medieval Arabic and Persian lyric poetry. Ranging over some seven countries, it deals with works by over thirty poets in the Islamic world from Spain to present-day Afghanistan, and examines how this rich poetic traditions exhibits both continuity and development in the use of a wide variety of ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Arabic Literature

    An Overview

    by Pierre Cachia ...
    Series series Culture and Civilization in the Middle East
    Assuming no previous knowledge of the subject, Arabic Literature - An Overview gives a rounded and balanced view of Arab literary creativity. 'High' literature is examined alongside popular folk literature, and the classical and modern periods, usually treated separately, are presented together. Cachia's observations are not subordinated to any pre-formed literary theory, but describe and ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • The Arabian Nights

    A Companion

    by Robert Irwin ...
    This literary companion guides the reader into the labyrinth of storytelling within The Arabian Nights.The Arabian Nights has become a synonym for the fabulous and the exotic. Every child is familiar with the stories of Aladdin, Sinbad the Sailor and Ali Baba. Yet very few people, even specialists in oriental literature, have a clear idea of when the book was written or what exactly it is.Far from ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur and Arabic Writerly Culture

    A Ninth Century Bookman in Baghdad

    Series series Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures
    Toorawa re-evaluates the literary history and landscape of third to ninth century Baghdad by demonstrating and emphasizing the significance of the important transition from a predominantly oral-aural culture to an increasingly literate one. This transformation had a profound influence on the production of learned and literary culture; modes of transmission of learning; nature and types of literary ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • When Heroes Love

    The Ambiguity of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David

    Series series Gender, Theory, and Religion
    Toward the end of the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh King Gilgamesh laments the untimely death of his comrade Enkidu, "my friend whom I loved dearly." Similarly in the Bible, David mourns his companion, Jonathan, whose "love to me was wonderful, greater than the love of women." These passages, along with other ambiguous erotic and sexual language found in the Gilgamesh epic and the biblical David ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Arab Representations of the Occident

    East-West Encounters in Arabic Fiction

    Series series Culture and Civilization in the Middle East
    This is one of the first books in English to explore Arab responses to Western culture and values in modern Arab literature. Through in-depth research El-Enany examines the attitudes as expressed mainly through works of fiction written by Arab authors during the twentieth, and, to a lesser extent, nineteenth century. It constitutes an original addition to the age-old East-West debate, and is ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Writing and Representation in Medieval Islam

    Muslim Horizons

    Edited by Julia Bray ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures
    With contributions from specialists in different areas of classical Islamic thought, this accessible volume explores the ways in which medieval Muslims saw, interpreted and represented the world around them in their writings.Focusing mainly on the eighth to tenth centuries AD, known as the ‘formative period of Islamic thought’, the book examines historiography, literary prose and Arabic prose ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Literature, Journalism and the Avant-Garde

    Intersection in Egypt

    Series series Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures
    The author explores the role of journalism in Egypt in effecting and promoting the development of modern Arabic literature from its inception in the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Remapping the literary scene in Egypt over recent decades, Kendall focuses on the independent, frequently dissident, journals that were the real hotbed of innovative literary activity and which made a lasting ... Read more

    $56.99 USD $39.99 USD

  • Arabic Poetry

    Trajectories of Modernity and Tradition

    Series series Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures
    Since the late 1940s, Arabic poetry has spoken for an Arab conscience, as much as it has debated positions and ideologies, nationally and worldwide. This book tackles issues of modernity and tradition in Arabic poetry as manifested in poetic texts and criticism by poets as participants in transformation and change. It studies the poetic in its complexity, relating to issues of selfhood, ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • The Oral and the Written in Early Islam

    Series series Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures
    Made up of a number of seminal articles that are translated for the first time in English, this prestigious book from Gregor Schoeler gives a reasoned, informed and comprehensive overflow of how the written and the spoken interacted, diverged and received cultural articulation among the Muslim societies of the first two centuries of the Hijra. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Early Mystics in Turkish Literature

    Translated by Gary Leiser, Robert Dankoff ...
    Series series Routledge Sufi Series
    This book is a translation of one of the most important Turkish scholarly works of the twentieth century. It was the masterpiece of M.F. Koprulu, one of Turkey’s leading, and most prolific, intellectuals and scholars. Using a wide variety of Arabic, and especially Turkish and Persian sources, this book sheds light on the early development of Turkish literature and attempts to show the continuity ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Nationalism, Islam and World Literature

    Sites of Confluence in the Writings of Mahmud Al-Mas’adi

    Series series Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures
    The writer and politician Mahmud al-Mis’adi is a figure of prime importance in the development of North African literature and cultural politics since the last war. This fascinating book covers both his essays and fiction, written between the 1930s and 1990s, which challenge the boundaries between the sacred and irreligious in the Islamic world. In addition, it also examines Arabic literature and ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Negotiating the Modern

    Orientalism and Indianness in the Anglophone World

    by Amit Ray ...
    Series series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
    This book explicates long-standing literary celebrations of 'India' and 'Indian-ness' by charting a cultural history of Indianness in the Anglophone world, locating moments (in intellectual, religious and cultural history) where India and Indianness are offered up as solutions to modern moral, ethical and political questions in the 'West.' Beginning in the early 1800s, South Asians actively seek ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Thousand and One Nights

    Space, Travel and Transformation

    Series series Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures
    This volume discusses The Thousand and One Nights' themes of space and travel showing how they are used not only as a setting in which the story unfolds, but also as the dynamic force which propels the heroes and the story to the final dénouement.These events often symbolize a process of transformation, in which the hero has to search for his destined role or strive to attain the object of his ... Read more

    $56.99 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

  • Albert Camus the Algerian

    Colonialism, Terrorism, Justice

    by David Carroll ...
    In these original readings of Albert Camus' novels, short stories, and political essays, David Carroll concentrates on Camus' conflicted relationship with his Algerian background and finds important critical insights into questions of justice, the effects of colonial oppression, and the deadly cycle of terrorism and counterterrorism that characterized the Algerian War and continues to surface in ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Contemporary Arab Fiction

    Innovation from Rama to Yalu

    by Fabio Caiani ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures
    This book introduces Western readers to some of the most significant novels written in Arabic since 1979. Despite their contribution to the development of contemporary Arabic fiction, these authors remain largely unknown to non-Arab readers.Fabio Caiani examines the work of the Moroccan Muhammad Barrada; the Egyptian Idwar al-Kharrat; the Lebanese Ilyas Khuri and the Iraqi Fu’ad al-Takarli. Their ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Literary Modernity Between the Middle East and Europe

    Textual Transactions in 19th Century Arabic, English and Persian Literatures

    Series series Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures
    Providing a broad ranging and unique comparative study of the development of English, Persian and Arabic literature, this book looks at their interrelations with specific reference to modernity, nationalism and social value. It gives a strong theoretical underpinning to the development of Middle Eastern literature in the modern period. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Sadeq Hedayat

    His Work and his Wondrous World

    Edited by Homa Katouzian ...
    Series series Iranian Studies
    Featuring contributions from leading scholars of Iranian studies and / or comparative literature, this edited comprehensive and critical edited collection provides detailed scholarly analysis of Hedayat's life and work using a variety of methodological and conceptual approaches.Hedayat is the author of The Blind Owl, the most famous Persian novel both in Iran and in Europe and America. Many of his ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • The Vital Roots of European Enlightenment

    Ibn Tufayl's Influence on Modern Western Thought

    by Samar Attar ...
    The Vital Roots of European Enlightenment is a collection of essays which deal with the influence of Ibn Tufayl, a 12th-century Arab philosopher from Spain, on major European thinkers. His philosophical novel, Hayy Ibn Yaqzan, could be considered one of the most important books that heralded the Scientific Revolution. Its thoughts are found in different variations and to different degrees in the ... Read more

    $46.99 USD