The Adventures Of Sayf Ben Dhi Yazan
DOWNLOAD
Download The Adventures Of Sayf Ben Dhi Yazan PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get The Adventures Of Sayf Ben Dhi Yazan book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
The Adventures Of Sayf Ben Dhi Yazan
DOWNLOAD
Author : Lena Jayyusi
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2020-06-08
The Adventures Of Sayf Ben Dhi Yazan written by Lena Jayyusi and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
"A charming and agreeable surprise . . . A welcome gift to Western readers." —Kirkus Reviews "Editor Jayyusi offers a major example of the Arabic folk epics or romances called siras . . . The siras are full of heroic adventures, exotic landscapes, love affairs, friendships, supernatural dangers, magical spells, and great Arab heroes. . . . " —Library Journal "This text should find its place alongside the translations of other epic traditions of the world as a text well suited for use in university courses on the Middle East, world literature, epic, and folklore." —Journal of Arabic Literature This colorful panorama recounts the fantastic tales of a sixth-century Arab king and offers unusual perspectives on gender, religion, race, and ethnicity. Composed between the 13th and 16th centuries and presented here in English for the first time.
Medieval Marvels And Fictions In The Latin West And Islamic World
DOWNLOAD
Author : Michelle Karnes
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2022-07-12
Medieval Marvels And Fictions In The Latin West And Islamic World written by Michelle Karnes and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
"It is a commonplace that marvels like enchanted rings and sorcerers' stones were topics of fascination in the Middle Ages, not only in romance and travel literature, but also in the period's philosophic writing: magical objects with hard-to-explain powers abound. This is the first book to analyze these different bodies of writing alongside one another, comparing texts from both the Latin West (including writings in English, French, Italian, and Spanish) and in Arabic on the topic, attempting a unifying theory of marvels across different disciplines and cultures. Michelle Karnes tells an untold story of the parallels between Arabic and Latin thought, reminding us that the strange and the unfamiliar travel unusually well across a range of genres, spanning geographical and conceptual space, and offers an ideal vantage point from which to understand Arabic and Latin intercultural exchange. Employing the notion of the near-impossibility, Karnes traverses this diverse archive, marking the outer boundaries of both nature's capabilities and human creativity. Imagination, she shows, invests marvels with their character and, ultimately, their power. Skirting the distinction between the real and unreal, the true and the false, imagination, for Karnes, endows marvels with indeterminacy and import, imbuing them with inherently interdisciplinary, boundary-resistant, perplexing properties. These near-impossibilities cannot be conclusively discounted; rather, they challenge readers to discover the highest capabilities of both nature and the human intellect. Karnes offers here a rare, comparative perspective and a new methodology to study a topic long recognized to be central to medieval culture"--
Prophets Gods And Kings In S Rat Sayf Ibn Dh Yazan
DOWNLOAD
Author : Helen Blatherwick
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2016-05-09
Prophets Gods And Kings In S Rat Sayf Ibn Dh Yazan written by Helen Blatherwick and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book is an exploration of the part played by Islamic prophetic legends, Ancient Egyptian myths and stories, and the Middle Eastern Alexander Romance in an Egyptian popular epic.
Philosophy And Arts In The Islamic World
DOWNLOAD
Author : Union européenne des arabisants et islamisants. Congress
language : en
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
Release Date : 1998
Philosophy And Arts In The Islamic World written by Union européenne des arabisants et islamisants. Congress and has been published by Peeters Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Art categories.
The volume contains 26 contributions to literature, philosophy, linguistics and epigraphy in Islamic culture, ranging from pre-Islamic poetry to contemporary prose, from the Ihwan as-Safa to the theology of Mawdudi, from lexicography to epigraphy. These papers were read at the Eighteenth International Congress of the Union Europeenne des Arabisants et Islamisants, organized by the Catholic University of Leuven (KUL) from 3 to 10 September 1996. A second volume of proceedings, that appears along with this one (OLA 86), is more concerned with questions of actuality and political organisation, including Christian minorities in the Arab world, in their relation to the Muslim environment. As such the two volumes put together, will provide to the world of learning, we may say, an overall picture of the current scientific investigations about Islamic culture and society.
The Warrior Women Of Islam
DOWNLOAD
Author : Remke Kruk
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2013-11-19
The Warrior Women Of Islam written by Remke Kruk and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
Colloquial Arabic storytelling is most commonly associated with The Thousandvand One Nights. But few people are aware of a much larger corpus of narrative texts known as popular epic. These heroic romantic tales, originating in the Middle Ages, form vast cycles of adventure stories whose most remarkable feature is their portrayal of powerful and memorable women. Wildly appreciated by medieval audiences, and spread by professional storytellers throughout the cities of the Muslim world, these fictions were printed and reprinted over the centuries and comprise a vital part of Arab culture. Yet virtually none are available in translation, and so remain almost unknown to a non-Arab public. Remke Kruk at last makes these neglected romances available to a Western audience. She recounts the story of Princess Dhat al-Himma, brave and undefeated leader of the Muslim army in its wars against the Byzantines; of Ghamra, brought up as a boy to become a fearless leader of men; and of cool-headed Qannasa, raiding from her mountain fortress to capture and seduce her enemies before putting them pitilessly to the sword. The Warrior Women of Islam puts a bold new complexion on gender roles and the wider perception of women in the Middle East.
Classical Arabic Stories
DOWNLOAD
Author : Salma Khadra Jayyusi
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2012
Classical Arabic Stories written by Salma Khadra Jayyusi and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Education categories.
Short fiction was an immensely innovative art in the medieval Arab world and speaks to the urbanization of the Arab domain after Islam. It reflects the bustling life of Muslim Arabs and Islamized Persians and the sure stamp of an urbanity that had settled very staunchly after big conquests. Reading these texts today illuminates the wide spectrum of early Arab life and the influences and innovations that flourished so vibrantly in medieval Arab society. Classical Arabic Stories selects from an impressive corpus, including excerpts from seven seminal works: Ibn Tufail's novel, Hayy ibn Yaqzan; Kalila wa Dimna by Ibn al-Muqaffa; The Misers by al-Jahiz; The Brethren of Purity's The Protest of Animals Against Man; Al-Maqamat (The Assemblies) by al-Hamadhani and al-Hariri; Epistle of Forgiveness by al-Ma'arri; and the epic romance, Sayf Bin Dhi Yazan. Organized thematically, the volume begins with pre-Islamic tales, stories of rulers and other notables, and thrilling narratives of danger and warfare. It follows with tales of love, religion, comedy, and the strange and the supernatural.
Doing Justice To A Wronged Literature Essays On Arabic Literature And Rhetoric Of The 12th 18th Centuries In Honour Of Thomas Bauer
DOWNLOAD
Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2022-08-22
Doing Justice To A Wronged Literature Essays On Arabic Literature And Rhetoric Of The 12th 18th Centuries In Honour Of Thomas Bauer written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-22 with Religion categories.
Doing Justice to a Wronged Literature, a Festschrift for the Arabist and Islamicist Thomas Bauer, includes 17 essays by established academics on various themes and aspects of Arabic literature and rhetoric of the Ayyubid, Mamluk and Ottoman periods (12th-18th centuries).
The Novel An Alternative History
DOWNLOAD
Author : Steven Moore
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2013-09-17
The Novel An Alternative History written by Steven Moore and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
Encyclopedic in scope and heroically audacious, The Novel: An Alternative History is the first attempt in over a century to tell the complete story of our most popular literary form. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the novel did not originate in 18th-century England, nor even with Don Quixote, but is coeval with civilization itself. After a pugnacious introduction, in which Moore defends innovative, demanding novelists against their conservative critics, the book relaxes into a world tour of the pre-modern novel, beginning in ancient Egypt and ending in 16th-century China, with many exotic ports-of-call: Greek romances; Roman satires; medieval Sanskrit novels narrated by parrots; Byzantine erotic thrillers; 5000-page Arabian adventure novels; Icelandic sagas; delicate Persian novels in verse; Japanese war stories; even Mayan graphic novels. Throughout, Moore celebrates the innovators in fiction, tracing a continuum between these pre-modern experimentalists and their postmodern progeny. Irreverent, iconoclastic, informative, entertaining-The Novel: An Alternative History is a landmark in literary criticism that will encourage readers to rethink the novel.
Religion Gender And Culture In The Pre Modern World
DOWNLOAD
Author : B. Britt
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2007-04-16
Religion Gender And Culture In The Pre Modern World written by B. Britt and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-04-16 with Social Science categories.
This book compares shifting formulations of gender, interfaith, and ethnic relations across continents from antiquity to the Nineteenth century. Contributors address three areas: depictions of homosexual and transgendered behaviours, conceptualizations of femininity and masculinity, and the marriageability of ethnic and religious minorities.
The Oxford History Of Historical Writing
DOWNLOAD
Author : Daniel R. Woolf
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2011
The Oxford History Of Historical Writing written by Daniel R. Woolf and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with History categories.
A collection of essays from leading historians which explores the ways in which history was written in Europe and Asian between 400 and 1400.