Middle Eastern

Ferdowsi's Shahnama: Millennial Perspectives celebrates the ongoing reception, over the last thousand years, of a masterpiece of classical Persian poetry. The epic of the Shahnama or Book of Kings glorifies the spectacular achievements of Iranian...

Voices from the Desert is the fifth and concluding volume of Marcel Kurpershoek’s Corpus Oral Poetry & Narratives from Central Arabia. The first volume appeared in 1994. In the Preface the author looks back on his almost twenty years of involvement with...

A history of mystical Islamic poetry, not only in Arabic and Persian, but also in the popular folk traditions of regional vernacular languages, including a chapter on Rumi and Sufi poetryAbout the AuthorLuce Irigaray, a director of research at the Centre...

During what has become officially known as the genocide against the Tutsi, as many as one million Rwandan people were brutally massacred between April and July 1994. This book presents a critical study of fictional responses by authors inside and outside...

This book uses literary texts featuring themes and references related to Islam and the Muslim world to offer new perspectives on non-Western intellectual history and contemporary European literature. Shifting from abstraction to sublimation by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789388540797Author Carla PetievichFormat HardbackPage Count 225Imprint Manohar Publishers and DistributorsPublisher Manohar Publishers and Distributors

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783895005183Author Andreas PflitschFormat HardbackPage Count 306Imprint Dr Ludwig ReichertPublisher Dr Ludwig ReichertWeight(grams) 734g

This Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of Turkish literature within both a local and global context.Across eight thematic sections a collection of subject experts use close readings of literature materials to provide a critical survey of the...

The present volume addresses dynamic and collective authorship by examining how authors and scribes in the Persianate parts of the Islamic world produced, copied, and interpreted texts during the manuscript age within specific cultural contexts, out of...

This book explores queer identity in Morocco through the work of author and LGBT activist Abdellah Taia, who defied the country's anti-homosexuality laws by publicly coming out in 2006. Engaging postcolonial, queer and literary theory, Tina Dransfeldt...

Confronting nationalistic and nativist interpreting practices in Persianate literary scholarship, Persian Literature as World Literature makes a case for reading these literatures as world literature-as transnational, worldly texts that expand beyond...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765103579Author Dr. Farshad SonboldelFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783847114574Author Muhammad B Ahmad Al-ZamlakaniFormat HardbackImprint V&R UnipressPublisher V&R UnipressWeight(grams) 2808g

She has received numerous accolades including an Academy Award and two Golden Globes, and in 2004 became the first ever American woman to be nominated for a Best Director Oscar. From The Virgin Suicides to The Bling Ring, her work carves out new spaces...

Beirut is the cultural, commercial and economic hub of Lebanon. But to what extent has the city affected and shaped the formation and perceptions of Lebanese national identity? Ghenwa Hayek here explores how anxieties over the past, present and future of...

Confronting nationalistic and nativist interpreting practices in Persianate literary scholarship, Persian Literature as World Literature makes a case for reading these literatures as world literature—as transnational, worldly texts that expand beyond...

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...

The Egyptian judge and man of letters, Ibn Abi al-'Id al-Sakhawi al-Maliki, who lived in Cairo and Medina in the ninth/fifteenth century and who practised charity his whole life, compiled a work titled the Hilyat al-kurama', literally "The Ornament of...

This book offers new insights into the twelfth-century Persian poet Nezami Ganjavi. Challenging the dominant interpretation of Nezami's poetry as the product of mysticism or Islam, this book explores Nezami's literary techniques such as his pictorial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616404727Author Edward W LaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 748g

Mahmoud Darwish: Palestine's Poet and the Other as the Beloved focuses on Palestinian national poet Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008), whose poetry has helped to shape Palestinian identity and foster Palestinian culture through many decades of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783752000023Author Bilal OrfaliFormat HardbackImprint Dr Ludwig ReichertPublisher Dr Ludwig ReichertWeight(grams) 5207g

Routledge Handbook of Post Classical and Contemporary Persian Literature contains scholarly essays and sample texts related to Persian literature from the 17th century to the present day. It includes analyses of free verse poetry, short stories, novels,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783700193760Author Christine Nolle-KarimiFormat PaperbackPage Count 399Imprint Austrian Academy of Sciences PressPublisher Austrian Academy of Sciences...

This book looks at the first generation of Arab British and Arab-American writers to produce English writings in the earlier twentieth-century: Ameen Rihani, Khalil Jibran, George Antonius and Edward Atiyah. It theorises their work within the context of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474499774Author Daniel BeharFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

Since the end of the First World War, the legend of 'Lawrence of Arabia' has enjoyed much currency in the popular imagination of the West. Behind this legend, however, is a man, Thomas Edward Lawrence, tortured and brilliant, a man whose life and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789774167034Author Amy MotlaghFormat PaperbackPage Count 500Imprint The American University in Cairo PressPublisher The American University in Cairo...

Shaped by the experiences of the Iranian Revolution, Iranian-American autobiographers use this chaotic past to tell their current stories in the United States. Wagenknecht analyzes a wide range of such writing and draws new conclusions about migration,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438480480Author Nancy E BergFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Excelsior EditionsPublisher State University of New York Press

This book offers new insights into the twelfth-century Persian poet Nezami Ganjavi. Challenging the dominant interpretation of Nezami’s poetry as the product of mysticism or Islam, this book explores Nezami’s literary techniques such as his pictorial...

This book looks at eight post Arab Spring novels in the context of Gilles Deleuze’s and Félix Guattari’s theory of minor literature. Ahdaf Soueif, Hisham Matar, Karim Alrawi, Youssef Rakha, Yasmine El Rashidi, Omar Rober Hamilton, Saleem Haddad, and Nada...

Writing in response to war and national crisis, al-Samm?n, Khal?feh, Barak?t, and others introduced into the Arabic literary canon aesthetic forms capable of carrying Levantine women's experiences. By assessing their feminism in such a way, this book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783752007930Author Asmaa EssakoutiFormat HardbackPage Count 206Imprint Dr Ludwig ReichertPublisher Dr Ludwig ReichertWeight(grams) 1107g

Transnational Culture studies the ways that diasporic Iranian Armenian authors and artists negotiate their identities as minoritized population within a liminal space that includes religious, ethnic, national, racial, cultural, gender, and sexual factors...

The work of Nizami Ganjavi, a classical poet of the twelfth century, is fueling new cultural debate in Iran in recent years. The dominant discourse encourages the reading of the texts in light of biographical or theological conventions and religious...

Shaped by the experiences of the Iranian Revolution, Iranian-American autobiographers use this chaotic past to tell their current stories in the United States. Wagenknecht analyzes a wide range of such writing and draws new conclusions about migration,...

Despite the urgent need to develop understandings of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the light of the current situation in the Middle East, the role of violence and reconciliation in Palestinian and Israeli literature and film has received only brief...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447116633Author Barbara StrauliFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 544g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621963783Author Rouhollah ZareiFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Cambria PressPublisher Cambria PressWeight(grams) 213g