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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

  • Brown Album

    Essays on Exile and Identity

    From the much-acclaimed novelist and essayist, a beautifully rendered, poignant collection of personal essays, chronicling immigrant and Iranian-American life in our contemporary moment.Novelist Porochista Khakpour's family moved to Los Angeles after fleeing the Iranian Revolution, giving up their successes only to be greeted by an alienating culture. Growing up as an immigrant in America means ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $5.99 USD

  • 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

  • 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

  • Istanbul (Deluxe Edition)

    Memories and the City

    by Orhan Pamuk ...
    Translated by Maureen Freely ...
    From the Nobel Prize-winning author of My Name Is Red and Snow, a large-format, deluxe, collectible edition of his beloved memoir about life in Istanbul, with more than 200 added illustrations and a new introduction.Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul and still lives in the family apartment building where his mother first held him in her arms. His portrait of his city is thus also a self-portrait, ... Read more

    $14.99 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

    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

  • 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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  • The Prophet The Original 1923 Unabridged and Complete Edition (A Kahlil Gibran Classics)

    by Kahlil Gibran ...
    he Prophet is a book of 26 prose poetry fables written in English by the Lebanese-American poet and writer Kahlil Gibran. It was originally published in 1923 by Alfred A. Knopf. It is Gibran's best known work. The Prophet has been translated into over 100 different languages, making it one of the most translated books in history, as well as one of the best selling books of all time. It has never ... Read more

    $0.99 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Routledge Revivals: The Seven Odes (1957)

    The First Chapter in Arabic Literature

    by A. J. Arberry ...
    Series Book 1 - Routledge Revivals: Selected Works of A. J. Arberry
    These seven poems, translated by A. J. Arberry in 1957, are the most famous survivors of a vast mass of poetry produced in the Arabian Desert in the sixth century. Arberry’s introduction explains to the reader what was known about the poems and how they came to be preserved and distributed over time. The epilogue particularly interrogates the authenticity of the poems and tracks how they have been ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Eqbal Ahmad

    Critical Outsider in a Turbulent Age

    by Stuart Schaar ...
    Eqbal Ahmad (1930?–1999) was a bold and original activist, journalist, and theorist who brought uncommon perspective to the rise of militant Islam, the conflict in Kashmir, the involvement of the United States in Vietnam, and the geopolitics of the Cold War. A long-time friend and intellectual collaborator of Ahmad, Stuart Schaar presents in this book previously unseen materials by and about his ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • The Lions' Den

    Zionism and the Left from Hannah Arendt to Noam Chomsky

    A lively intellectual history that explores how prominent midcentury public intellectuals approached Zionism and then the State of Israel itself and its conflicts with the Arab worldIn this lively intellectual history of the political Left, cultural critic Susie Linfield investigates how eight prominent twentieth-century intellectuals struggled with the philosophy of Zionism, and then with Israel ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • 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

  • 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

  • On the Harmony of Religions and Philosophy (Golden Deer Classics)

    In this treatise Ibn Rushd (Averroes) sets out to show that the Scriptural Law (shar') of Islam does not altogether prohibit the study of philosophy by Muslims, but, on the contrary, makes it a duty for a certain class of people, those with the capacity for "demonstrative" or scientific reasoning. Apparent conflicts between the teachings of Scripture and philosophy can be reconciled by allegorical ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus