Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures
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Remembering Cosmopolitan Egypt
Literature, culture, and empire
Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures
Remembering Cosmopolitan Egypt examines the link between cosmopolitanism in Egypt, from the nineteenth century through to the mid-twentieth century, and colonialism. While it has been widely noted that such a relationship exists, the nature and impact of this dynamic is often overlooked. Taking a...
Published October 7th 2009 by Routledge
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Islamic Culture Through Jewish Eyes
Al-Andalus from the Tenth to Twelfth Century
Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures
Islamic Culture Through Jewish Eyes analyzes the attitude towards Muslims, Islam, and Islamic culture as presented in sources written by Jewish authors in the Iberian Peninsula between the tenth and the twelfth centuries. By bringing the Jewish attitude towards the "other" into sharper...
Published November 5th 2007 by Routledge
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Literary Modernity Between the Middle East and Europe
Textual Transactions in 19th Century Arabic, English and Persian Literatures
Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures
Providing a broad ranging and unique comparative study of the development of English, Persian and Arabic literature, this book looks at their interrelations with specific reference to modernity, nationalism and social value. It gives a strong theoretical underpinning to the development of Middle...
Published September 10th 2007 by Routledge
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Popular Culture and Nationalism in Lebanon
The Fairouz and Rahbani Nation
Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures
Based on an award-winning thesis, this volume is a pioneering study of musical theatre and popular culture and its relation to the production of identity in Lebanon in the second half of the twentieth century. In the aftermath of the departure of the French from Lebanon and the civil...
Published September 10th 2007 by Routledge
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Contemporary Arab Fiction
Innovation from Rama to Yalu
Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures
This book introduces Western readers to some of the most significant novels written in Arabic since 1979. Despite their contribution to the development of contemporary Arabic fiction, these authors remain largely unknown to non-Arab readers. Fabio Caiani examines the work of the Moroccan Muhammad...
Published August 21st 2007 by Routledge
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Arab Culture and the Novel
Genre, Identity and Agency in Egyptian Fiction
Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures
This book explores the complex relationship between the novel and identity in modern Arab culture against a backdrop of contemporary Egypt. It uses the example of the Egyptian novel to interrogate the root causes – religious, social, political, and psychological – of the lingering...
Published June 6th 2007 by Routledge
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Medieval Andalusian Courtly Culture in the Mediterranean
Hadîth Bayâd wa Riyâd
Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures
Medieval Andalusian Courtly Culture discusses the unicum manuscript of the Hadîth Bayâd wa Riyâd, the only illustrated manuscript known to have survived for more than eight centuries of Muslim and Arabic-speaking presence in present-day Spain. The manuscript is of paramount importance as it...
Published December 5th 2006 by Routledge
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The Thousand and One Nights
Space, Travel and Transformation
Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures
This volume discusses The Thousand and One Nights' themes of space and travel showing how they are used not only as a setting in which the story unfolds, but also as the dynamic force which propels the heroes and the story to the final dénouement. These events often symbolize a process of...
Published December 3rd 2006 by Routledge
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Literature, Journalism and the Avant-Garde
Intersection in Egypt
Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures
The author explores the role of journalism in Egypt in effecting and promoting the development of modern Arabic literature from its inception in the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Remapping the literary scene in Egypt over recent decades, Kendall focuses on the...
Published June 21st 2006 by Routledge
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The Oral and the Written in Early Islam
Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures
Made up of a number of seminal articles that are translated for the first time in English, this prestigious book from Gregor Schoeler gives a reasoned, informed and comprehensive overflow of how the written and the spoken interacted, diverged and received cultural articulation among the Muslim...
Published June 6th 2006 by Routledge
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Nationalism, Islam and World Literature
Sites of Confluence in the Writings of Mahmud Al-Mas’adi
Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures
The writer and politician Mahmud al-Mis’adi is a figure of prime importance in the development of North African literature and cultural politics since the last war. This fascinating book covers both his essays and fiction, written between the 1930s and 1990s, which challenge the boundaries between...
Published May 3rd 2006 by Routledge
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Writing and Representation in Medieval Islam
Muslim Horizons
Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures
With contributions from specialists in different areas of classical Islamic thought, this accessible volume explores the ways in which medieval Muslims saw, interpreted and represented the world around them in their writings. Focusing mainly on the eighth to tenth centuries AD, known as the ‘...
Published March 8th 2006 by Routledge
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Arabic Poetry
Trajectories of Modernity and Tradition
Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures
Since the late 1940s, Arabic poetry has spoken for an Arab conscience, as much as it has debated positions and ideologies, nationally and worldwide. This book tackles issues of modernity and tradition in Arabic poetry as manifested in poetic texts and criticism by poets as participants in...
Published January 10th 2006 by Routledge
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Religious Perspectives in Modern Muslim and Jewish Literatures
Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures
This collection brings together discussions of the way in which Muslim and Jewish beliefs and practices are represented in modern literary texts of poetry, fiction and drama. The chapters collected here consider elements of the expression of Judaism and Islam in modern literature. Key topics...
Published November 6th 2005 by Routledge
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Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur and Arabic Writerly Culture
A Ninth Century Bookman in Baghdad
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...
Published May 15th 2005 by Routledge