Realms of Strangers: Readers, Language, and Trickery in Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrī

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The Maqāmāt of Ḥarīrī features an intellectual pursuing a trickster to collect his rare words, sophisticated compositions, and curious accounts. Writing against the grain of modernist and Orientalist readings, Essakouti argues that strangeness in both language and space is the …

Writing as Re-enchantment: The Arabic and Turkish Novel’s Neo-Sufi Response to Secular Modernity

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This study examines the revival of Sufism in the Arabic and Turkish novel during the second half of the 20th century. A picture is drawn where Sufism forms a main source of literary inspiration and becomes a mode to establish …

The Maqāmāt of Badīʿ al-Zamān al-Hamadhānī

Authorship, Texts, and Contexts

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Through investigations of manuscripts, this book explores important aspects of the life of Badîʿ al-Zamân al-Hamadhânî’s Maqâmât. The broad concerns of the book are divided into three sections: authorship, texts, and contexts. Each chapter in this volume investigates hitherto unstudied …

Oscillating Bodies

Understanding Tunisian Society through its Novels (1956-2011)

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Oscillating Bodies liest die Körperdarstellungen in arabisch- und französischsprachigen Romanen aus Tunesien zusammen. So entsteht ein Einblick in die tunesische Gesellschaft von der Unabhängigkeit des Landes 1956 bis zu den revolutionären Umwälzungen von 2010/2011. Sie erscheint als eine zwischen verschiedenen …

Decoding DA’ISH

An Analysis of Poetic Exemplars and Discursive Strategies of Domination in the Jihadist Milieu

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Warum verfassen Dschihadisten Gedichte und welche Rolle spielen diese Gedichte bei der Übertragung von dschihadistischen Ideologien? Decoding DĀʿISH betrachtet die Schnittstellen der literarischen, religiösen und politischen Aspekte im dschihadistischen Diskurs. Im Zentrum steht dabei die Frage, wie der selbsternannte „Islamische …

Die Entblößung der Wörter

aš-Šidyāqs literarische Listen als Kultur- und Gesellschaftskritik im 19. Jahrhundert

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Welche Bedeutung haben Wortlisten für die arabische Literatur? In der literatur- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Monographie werden zum ersten Mal die literarischen Wortlisten von Aḥmad Fāris aš-Šidyāq (1805/1806–1887), einem der bedeutendsten arabischen Intellektuellen des 19. Jahrhunderts, umfassend untersucht und als fundamentale Kultur- …

Reading Across Modern Arabic Literature and Art

Three Case Studies: Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Abd al-Rahman Munif, Etel Adnan

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Interrelations of literature and art, word and image, are manifold. However, they have remained largely unexplored when it comes to literature and art in the Arab world. This book aims at introducing interarts studies to Middle Eastern studies and, at …

The Arabic language across the ages

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“The Arabic language across the ages” provides a collection of linguistic and philological studies that investigate diachronically and chronologically different aspects of the Arabic language and its dialects. It presents studies on Arabic dialectology (e.g., Arabic North-African dialects), morphology (e.g., …

Manuscript, Text and Literature

Collected Essays on Middle and New Persian Texts

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This book is a selected collection of the scholarly production on Middle and New Persian literature by professor emeritus Bo Utas, Uppsala University, presented to him on his 70th birthday. Out of 19 articles, 15 are in English and four …

Catalogue des manuscrits de la fondation Georges et Mathilde Salem (Alep, Syrie)

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The library of the George & Mathilde Salem Foundation (Aleppo, Syria) is one of the most important private collections of manuscripts in the Syrian Arab Republic. It contains 547 copies in Arabic, Syriac and other languages about Christian and Islamic …

Palestinian Theatre

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The book outlines the development of Palestinian theatre from the first theatrical attempts before 1948, to the heavy blow, which these attempts suffered as a result of the Nakba, to regeneration of the professional theatre out of the ashes of …

The Conflict of Voices in the Poetry of Dennis Brutus and Mahmud Darwish

A Comparative Study

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This book undertakes a comparative analysis of the conflict of voices in the poetry of the South African poet Dennis Brutus (b. 1924), and the Palestinian poet Mahmūd Darwīsh (b. 1942), with the purpose of demonstrating that the conflict of …

Writers and Rulers

Perspectives on Their Relationship from Abbasid to Safavid Times

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Neun Essays über individuelle arabische und persische Autoren innerhalb des 9. bis 17. Jahrhunderts (Abbasidische bis Safavidische Dynastie) an Herrscher oder führende Persönlichkeiten gerichtet untersuchen, wie eben diese Autoren Literaturtradition instrumentalisierten oder rekreierten um sich selbst Autorität zu verschaffen, eigene …