Middle Eastern

The subject of this book is a new "Islam." This Islam began to take shape in 1988 around the Rushdie affair, the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and the first Gulf War of 1991. It was consolidated in the period following September 11, 2001. It is a...

The novel, the literary adage has it, reflects a world abandoned by God. Yet the possibilities of novelistic form and literary exegesis exceed the secularizing tendencies of contemporary literary criticism. Showing how the Qur'an itself invites and...

The ups and downs of silk, cotton, and stocks syncopated with serialized novels in the late-nineteenth-century Arabic press: Time itself was changing. Novels of debt, dissimulation, and risk begin to appear in Arabic at a moment when France and Britain...

Since the mid-1970s, Lebanon has been at the center of the worldwide rise in sectarian extremism. Its cultural output has both mediated and resisted this rise. Standing by the Ruins reviews the role of culture in supporting sectarianism, yet argues for...

Since the mid-1970s, Lebanon has been at the center of the worldwide rise in sectarian extremism. Its cultural output has both mediated and resisted this rise. Standing by the Ruins reviews the role of culture in supporting sectarianism, yet argues for...

How digital media are transforming Arab culture, literature, and politicsIn recent years, Arab activists have confronted authoritarian regimes both on the street and online, leaking videos and exposing atrocities, and demanding political rights. Tarek...

Short fiction was an immensely innovative art in the medieval Arab world, providing the perfect vehicle for transmitting dazzling images of life and experiences as early as pre-Islamic times. These works also speak to the urbanization of the Arab domain...

Who Is a Muslim? argues that modern Urdu literature, from its inception in colonial institutions such as Fort William College, Calcutta, to its dominant iterations in contemporary Pakistan—popular novels, short stories, television serials—is formed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783895003653Author Christian SzyskaFormat HardbackPage Count 228Imprint Dr Ludwig ReichertPublisher Dr Ludwig ReichertWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 249mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447104944Author Mahmud GhanayimFormat HardbackPage Count 182Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 358g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780936347356Author Mehdi MarashiFormat HardbackPage Count 576Imprint IBEX Publishers,U.S.Publisher IBEX Publishers,U.S.Weight(grams) 926g

Women Write Iran is the first full-length study on life narratives by Iranian women in the diaspora. Nima Naghibi investigates auto/biographical narratives across genres-including memoirs, documentary films, prison testimonials, and graphic novels-and...

Poet and Hero in the Persian Book of Kings presents a far-reaching reassessment of the classical Persian epic known as the Shahnama or "Book of Kings," composed by the poet Ferdowsi in the early eleventh century ce. Combining comparative perspectives...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588140166Author Iraj ParsinejadFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint IBEX Publishers,U.S.Publisher IBEX Publishers,U.S.Weight(grams) 619g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783895001628Author Beatrice GruendlerFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Dr Ludwig ReichertPublisher Dr Ludwig ReichertWeight(grams) 703g

This volume gathers together the proceedings of the conference which took place at the University of Liège from 13 to 15 January 2011. The conference was part of the project Tropics of Travel: Travel in Arabic Writings that took the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447107563Author Gail RamsayFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 3120g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447106931Author Jeries KhouryFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 499g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447059022Author Ali A HusseinFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 640gDimensions(mm) 241mm * 168mm * 23mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447066457Author Kerstin EksellFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 170mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447066013Author Stephan GuthFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 4800g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447061124Author Nefeli PapoutsakisFormat PaperbackPage Count 169Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 168mm...

Text edition. 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 historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783895006661Author Ibrahim TahaFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Dr Ludwig ReichertPublisher Dr Ludwig ReichertWeight(grams) 517gDimensions(mm) 244mm *...

Shahrokh Meskoob was one of Iran's leading intellectuals and a preeminent scholar of Persian literary traditions, language, and cultural identity. In The Ant's Gift, Meskoob applies his insight and considerable analytical skills to the Shahnameh, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357764605Author Shashi DeshpandeFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint ContextPublisher Westland Publications Limited

Arabic Disclosures presents readers with a comparative analysis of Arabic postcolonial autobiographical writing. In Arabic Disclosures Muhsin J. al-Musawi investigates the genre of autobiography within the modern tradition of Arabic literary writing...

Critical approaches to the study of topics related to Persian literature and Iranian culture have evolved in recent decades. The essays included in this volume collectively demonstrate the most recent creative approaches to the study of the Persian...

The True Dream is a Persian satirical drama set in Isfahan in the lead up to Iran's Constitutional Revolution of 1905-11. Although its three authors hail from the clerical class, they criticize the arrogance, corruption and secularity of the Iranian...

In From Schlemiel to Sabra Philip Hollander examines how masculine ideals and images of the New Hebrew man shaped the Israeli state. In this innovative book, Hollander uncovers the complex relationship that Jews had with masculinity, interrogating...

Six years before the Egyptian revolution of January 2011, many young Egyptians had resorted to blogging as a means of self-expression and literary creativity. This resulted in the emergence of a new literary genre: the autofictional blog. Such blogs are...

This edited volume addresses the ways in which the city has been explored in works of literature by classical and modern 'Arab' authors from different theosophical and ideological backgrounds.Book InformationISBN 9781474455824Author Nizar F. HermesFormat...

The study of Arabic literature is blossoming. This book provides a comprehensive theoretical framework to help research this highly prolific and diverse production of contemporary literary texts.Book InformationISBN 9781474441254Author Reuven SnirFormat...

Fiction by writers of Muslim background forms one of the most diverse, vibrant and high-profile corpora of work being produced today - from the trail-blazing writing of Salman Rushdie and Hanif Kureishi, which challenged political and racial orthodoxies...

First published in 1959, this reprint of the first edition of Edward FitzGerald's translation of the Rubaiyat is accompanied by an introduction and notes by A J Arberry, one of Britain's most distinguished Orientalist scholars. The Rubaiyat is a...

Dissident Writings of Arab Women: Voices Against Violence analyzes the links between creative dissidence and inscriptions of violence in the writings of a selected group of postcolonial Arab women. The female authors destabilize essentialist framings of...

This study highlights the connections between power, cultural products, resistance, and the artistic strategies through which that resistance is voiced in the Middle East. Exploring cultural displays of dissent in the form of literary works, films, and...

This book reconsiders the notion of liminality in postcolonial critical discourse today. By visiting Mashriqi writers of memoir, Bugeja offers a unique intervention in the understanding of 'in-between' and 'threshold' states in present-day...

Palestinian Literature and Film in Postcolonial Feminist Perspective is the first sustained study of gender-consciousness in the Palestinian creative imagination. Drawing on concepts from postcolonial feminist theory, Ball analyses a range of literary...

Can a writer help to bring about a more just society? This question was at the heart of the movement of al-adab al-multazim, or committed literature, which claimed to dominate Arab writing in the mid-twentieth century. By the 1960s, however, leading...