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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616404772Author Edward W LaneFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 903g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616404741Author Edward W LaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357926324Author Georg EbersFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Alpha EditionPublisher Alpha EditionWeight(grams) 82g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789979724797Author Hoda ThabetFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Hoda ThabetPublisher Hoda ThabetWeight(grams) 145g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783895004797Author Reuven SnirFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Dr Ludwig ReichertPublisher Dr Ludwig ReichertWeight(grams) 599g

Istanbul 1940 and Global Modernity: The World According to Auerbach, Tanpinar, and Edib engages Erich Auerbach's Istanbul career and his pioneering works of comparative literature in a new light. It interprets Auerbach's works against the background of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616404826Author Edward W LaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 450Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 1034g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357927918Author Georg EbersFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Alpha EditionPublisher Alpha EditionWeight(grams) 91g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616404864Author Edward W LaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 939g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357926454Author Georg EbersFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Alpha EditionPublisher Alpha EditionWeight(grams) 82g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616404789Author Edward W LaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 510Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 1170gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

Islam on the Street deals with the popular side of Islam, as described not only in tracts and manuals written by Sufi shaykhs and Islamist thinkers from among the more militant groups in Islam, but also in writings by other, more secular thinkers who...

This unique work takes a method of textual analysis commonly used in studies of ancient Western and Eastern manuscripts and applies it to twenty-one early Qur'an manuscripts. Keith Small analyzes a defined portion of text from the Qur'an with two aims in...

Through a close-reading of a corpus of novels featuring young protagonists in their path toward adulthood, the book shows how Bildungsroman impacted the formation of the Egyptian narrative. On a larger scale, the book helps the reader to understand the...

This history of literary Arabic describes the evolution of Arabic poetry and prose in the context of music, ritual performance, the arts and architecture. The thousands-of-years-old language is perhaps more highly developed and refined than any other...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616101343Author Stephen Paul SheehiFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Orange Grove BooksPublisher Orange Grove Books

In Literary Optics, Maha AbdelMegeed offers a compelling and far-reaching alternative to the traditional mode of analyzing Arabic literature through an encounter between Arabic narrative forms and European ones. Drawing upon close engagements with the...

A woman not only needs a room of her own, as Virginia Woolf wrote, but also the freedom to leave it and return to it at will; for a room without that right becomes a prison cell. The privilege of self-directed movement, the power to pick up and go as one...

In 'The Oriental Caravan we are transported along the Golden Road to Samarkand, and far beyond, to discover the finest poetry and prose-extracts of Eastern and Middle-Eastern philosophical, metaphysical and religious writing. Included are selected...

Mirrors for princes form a substantial and important genre in many pre-modern literatures. Their ostensible purpose is to advise the king; at the same time they assert that the king, if he is truly virtuous, will appreciate being reminded of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984843541Author George C ZaidanFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint Zaidan Foundation IncorporatedPublisher Zaidan Foundation IncorporatedWeight(grams)...

In Arabs and the Art of Storytelling, the eminent Moroccan literary historian and critic Kilito revisits and reassesses, in a modern critical light, many traditional narratives of the Arab world. He brings to such celebrated texts as A Thousand and One...

An overview of Arab-American fiction as it has developed over the past twenty yearsBook InformationISBN 9780815632535Author Steven SalaitaFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Syracuse University PressPublisher Syracuse University Press

The twelve chapters collected in the volume criticise, analyse, and discuss the issue of peace in Arab literature, philosophical and theological thought, and both institutional and grassroots practices of intercultural and interreligious mediation. The...

The twelve chapters collected in the volume criticise, analyse, and discuss the issue of peace in Arab literature, philosophical and theological thought, and both institutional and grassroots practices of intercultural and interreligious mediation. The...

Writers and Nations:The Case of American and Saudi Literatures examines how the concept of the nation in nineteenth century American literature and twentieth century and contemporary Saudi Arabian literature is represented in an array of relevant works...

Cultural Identity in Arabic Novels of Immigration: A Poetics of Return offers a new perspective of migration studies that views the concept of migration in Arabic as inherently embracing the notion of return. Starting the study with the significance of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781793627339Author Jennifer GrayFormat HardbackPage Count 146Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington BooksWeight(grams) 152g

The Hexaemeron by St Basil of Caesarea was a fundamental source for Christian writers describing the nature of the physical cosmos, not least in Armenia, where scholars attempted to reconcile theories derived from Greek antiquity with the Bible. The...

The present collection of articles deals with the relation between the Arabic popular epic and 'official' historiography. The Arabic popular epic can be considered as popular history since it represents a way in which a large, but mainly illiterate...

English translation. The present publication ideally continues the CSCO 589-590, in which 17th-century religious poems in Vernacular Syriac (i.e., Neo-Aramaic or Sureth) were published. It offers the reader a rich anthology and the most complete...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783954900404Author Friederike PannewickFormat HardbackPage Count 356Imprint Dr Ludwig ReichertPublisher Dr Ludwig ReichertWeight(grams) 794gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783895008061Author Stephan MilichFormat HardbackPage Count 268Imprint Dr Ludwig ReichertPublisher Dr Ludwig ReichertWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 244mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783895005688Author Frode SaugestadFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Dr Ludwig ReichertPublisher Dr Ludwig ReichertWeight(grams) 703gDimensions(mm) 244mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783895003783Author Stephan PoppFormat HardbackPage Count 284Imprint Dr Ludwig ReichertPublisher Dr Ludwig ReichertWeight(grams) 671g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783895003769Author Beatrice GruendlerFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint Dr Ludwig ReichertPublisher Dr Ludwig ReichertWeight(grams) 640g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783895003721Author Randa Abou-BakrFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Dr Ludwig ReichertPublisher Dr Ludwig ReichertWeight(grams) 562g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783895002984Author Michelle HartmanFormat HardbackPage Count 188Imprint Dr Ludwig ReichertPublisher Dr Ludwig ReichertWeight(grams) 485g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447066006Author Stephan GuthFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 376g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447065986Author Terri DeYoungFormat HardbackPage Count 371Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 839g