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  • Arabic Science Fiction

    by Ian Campbell ...
    Series series Studies in Global Science Fiction
    This book traces the roots of Arabic science fiction through classical and medieval Arabic literature, undertaking close readings of formative texts of Arabic science fiction via a critical framework developed from the work of Western critics of Western science fiction, Arab critics of Arabic science fiction and postcolonial theorists of literature. Ian Campbell investigates the ways in which ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • The Conceptualization of Guardianship in Iranian Intellectual History (1800–1989)

    Reading Ibn ʿArabī’s Theory of Wilāya in the Shīʿa World

    Series series Palgrave Series in Islamic Theology, Law, and History
    This book is a study of the concept of wilāya and its developments among Shīʿī scholars from the eighteenth to twentieth century. Leila Chamankhah addresses a number of issues by delving into the conceptualizations of wilāya through the examination and interpretation of key texts. She focuses on the influence of ibn ʿArabī’s mysticism, with regard to the conception of wilāya, on his Shīʿa ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Arabic Thought and Its Place in History

    Arabic Thought and Its Place in Historyby De Lacy O'LearyHow Islamic philosophers preserved and built on ancient Hellenic ideas, and passed that legacy to the kindlers of the European Renaissance.Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abū Shādūf Expounded

    Volume One

    Series Book 14 - Library of Arabic Literature
    Unique in pre-twentieth-century Arabic literature for taking the countryside as its central theme, Yūsuf al-Shirbīnī’s Brains Confounded combines a mordant satire on seventeenth-century Egyptian rural society with a hilarious parody of the verse-and-commentary genre so beloved by scholars of his day.In Volume One, al-Shirbīnī describes the three rural “types”—peasant cultivator, village man-of ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Babylonian Empire | Children's Middle Eastern History Books

    The Babylonian Empire was known to be the most powerful state in the ancient world during the 612 BCE. It was a beautiful kingdom with many famous buildings. Because of that, it went down in history as an important culture center. Visit the ancient city of Babylon by using your imagination as you read this book. Grab a copy today! ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Violence and Gender in the "New" Europe

    Islam in German Culture

    by B. Weber ...
    Series series Studies in European Culture and History
    Weber contributes to the ongoing scholarly discussion about Islam in the West, demonstrating how current thinking about gender violence prohibits the intellectual inquiry necessary to act against such violence, and analyzes ways in which Muslim women participate in the public sphere by thematizing violence in literature, art, and media. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Popular Culture in the Middle East and North Africa

    A Postcolonial Outlook

    Series series Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
    This book explores the body and the production process of popular culture in, and on, the Middle East and North Africa, Turkey, and Iran in the first decade of the 21st century, and up to the current historical moment. Essays consider gender, racial, political, and cultural issues in film, cartoons, music, dance, photo-tattoos, graphic novels, fiction, and advertisements. Contributors to the ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Summary and Analysis of The Kite Runner

    Based on the Book by Khaled Hosseini

    by Worth Books ...
    Series series Smart Summaries
    So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Kite Runner tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Khaled Hosseini’s book.Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.This short summary and analysis of The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini includes:Historical contextChapter-by-chapter ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Islamic Context of The Thousand and One Nights

    In this fascinating study, Muhsin J. al-Musawi shows how deeply Islamic heritage and culture is embedded in the tales of The Thousand and One Nights (known to many as the Arabian Nights) and how this integration invites readers to make an Islamic milieu. Conservative Islam dismisses The Thousand and One Nights as facile popular literature, and liberal views disregard the rich Islamic context of ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Altri ORIENTI - Trentaquattro scrittori arabi in trasferta

    Un movimento di andata: che è quello degli scrittori arabi in trasferta, non solo linguistica, nel nostro Paese. E un movimento di ritorno: per una ricezione, la nostra (di occidentali con qualche senso di colpa), dentro cui conta il livello di autorappresentazione e di autoconsapevolezza antropologico-culturale di quegli stessi scrittori nel momento in cui, aprendosi a un mondo “altro” -e secondo ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Le Livre persan

    Series series Conférences et Études
    De 1739 à 2002, la BNF s'est enrichie d'une collection de plus de deux mille volumes manuscrits en persan, dont beaucoup sont enluminés, anciens ou contiennent des copies uniques de textes rares. La longue histoire de la constitution du fonds persan de la BNF met en scène savants, voyageurs, interprètes et collectionneurs les plus divers, militaires ou médecins, qui déposent ou vendent les ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Littérature arabe

    Les Grands Articles d'Universalis

    La littérature arabe a vécu jusqu'au XIXe siècle sur ses propres concepts, en définissant ses propres catégories. C'est dire qu'en ce domaine toute manipulation imprudente conduit à l'incompréhension, tout rapprochement hasardeux altère la réalité des faits. Si l'on s'entête ici à partir du concept de littérature, tardivement... ... Read more

    $4.49 USD

  • The Rise of the Arabic Book

    The little-known story of the sophisticated and vibrant Arabic book culture that flourished during the Middle Ages.During the thirteenth century, Europe’s largest library owned fewer than 2,000 volumes. Libraries in the Arab world at the time had exponentially larger collections. Five libraries in Baghdad alone held between 200,000 and 1,000,000 books each, including multiple copies of standard ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Writing Queer Identities in Morocco

    Abdellah Taïa and Moroccan Committed Literature

    Series series Written Culture and Identity
    This book explores queer identity in Morocco through the work of author and LGBT activist Abdellah Taïa, who defied the country's anti-homosexuality laws by publicly coming out in 2006. Engaging postcolonial, queer and literary theory, Tina Dransfeldt Christensen examines Taïa's art and activism in the context of the wider debates around sexuality in Morocco.Placing key novels such as Salvation ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Orhan Pamuk, Secularism and Blasphemy

    The Politics of the Turkish Novel

    by Erdag Göknar ...
    Orhan Pamuk, Secularism and Blasphemy is the first critical study of all of Pamuk’s novels, including the early untranslated work.In 2005 Orhan Pamuk was charged with "insulting Turkishness" under Article 301 of the Turkish penal code. Eighteen months later he was awarded the Nobel Prize. After decades of criticism for wielding a depoliticized pen, Pamuk was cast as a dissident through his trial, ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • The Story of the Banned Book

    Naguib Mahfouz's Children of the Alley

    Translated by Humphrey Davies ...
    An award-winning account of Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz’s most controversial novel and the fierce debates that it provokedNaguib Mahfouz’s novel Children of the Alley has been in the spotlight since it was first published in Egypt in 1959. It has been at times banned and at others allowed, sold sometimes under the counter and sometimes openly on the street, often pirated and only recently ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • 3rd Grade History: The Egyptian Civilization

    Egyptian Books for Kids

    Series series Children's Ancient History Books
    Learn about the Egyptian civilization like you're actually there! That's the magic of carefully selected images that appropriately depict life way back then. Pictures tell a thousand stories therefore making learning a fun and visual experience. This book is the perfect companion of those text-heavy books used at school. Grab a copy of this interactive book today! ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Constructions of Masculinity in the Middle East and North Africa

    Literature, Film, and National Discourse

    Edited by Mohja Kahf, Nadine Sinno ...
    A multi-disciplinary exploration of how masculinity in the MENA region is constructed in film, literature, and nationalist discourseConstructions of masculinity are constantly evolving and being resisted in the Middle East and North Africa. There is no "before" that was a stable gendered environment. This edited collection examines constructions of both hegemonic and marginalized masculinities in ... Read more

    $42.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Prophet

    The Prophet is a book of 26 poetic essays written in English in 1923 by the Lebanese-American artist, philosopher and writer Khalil Gibran. In the book, the prophet Almustafa who has lived in the foreign city of Orphalese for 12 years is about to board a ship which will carry him home. He is stopped by a group of people, with whom he discusses many issues of life and the human condition. The book ... Read more

    $1.99 USD $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Black–Arab Encounters in Literature and Film

    Series series Routledge African Studies
    This book investigates how representations of Black Africans have been negotiated over time in Arabic literature and film.The book offers direct readings of a representative selection of primary texts, shedding light on the divergent ways these authors understood race across different genres, including pre-Islamic classical poetry, polemical essays, travel narratives, novels, and films. Starting ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Neighborhood and Boulevard

    Reading through the Modern Arab City

    by K. Ziadeh ...
    Translated by Kenneth A. Loparo ...
    Series series Theory in the World
    Combines the styles of memoir, history, anthropology, and theory to develop an innovative reflection on the materiality of culture. Through its style and content, the text challenges the Orientalist bifurcation between tradition and modernity in the Arab world, revealing instead tradition's own dynamism and its coexistence alongside modernity. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • شعر حافظ

    يتقدم هذا الكتاب بمجموعة قيمة من المقالات النقدية التي خصصها الكاتب لاستعراض شعر الأديب حافظ إبراهيم, ويتألق كوثيقة ثمينة في ساحة النقد الأدبي, حيث يمثل مرحلة متقدمة في تطور ممارسات النقد الأدبي الحديث. يقدم الكاتب تحليلاً دقيقًا وتقديرًا للشعرية لحافظ, يتناول جوانب الأغراض التي اعتمدها ويسلط الضوء على السرقات الشعرية والمآخذ اللغوية والأسلوبية. بالإضافة إلى ذلك, يستعرض قضايا هامة مثل المذهب ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Glimpse at the Travelogues of Baghdad

    by Iman Al-Attar ...
    Series series Routledge Focus on Literature
    The history of Baghdad in the 18th and 19th centuries had predominantly been written by two groups. The first group is Baghdadi scholars, and the second group is travellers. These two resources complement each other; while the literature of Baghdadi scholars provides insights from inside, travelogues provide observations from outside. By implementing this interlocking method of investigation, we ... Read more

    $24.99 USD