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Aspects of modern Arabic literature
Modern Arabic Literature
Author: Roger Allen
Publisher: New York : Ungar Publishing Company
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Modern Arabic Literature
Author: Muḥammad Muṣṭafá Badawī
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 586
ISBN-13: 9780521331975
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume provides an authoritative survey of creative writing in Arabic from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day.
Modern Arabic Literature
Author: Paul Starkey
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2014-03-11
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0748696539
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An introduction to Modern Arabic Literature, from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present
Islam on the Street
Author: Muḥsin Jāsim Mūsawī
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780742562066
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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 have also influenced public opinion. A scholar of Arabic literature, Muhsin al-Musawi explains the growing rift that has occurred between the secular intellectual--the forerunner of Arab and Islamic modernity since the late nineteenth century--and the upsurge of Islamic fervor in the street, at the grassroots level, and what these secular intellectuals can do to reconnect with the masses. Using some of the most important Arabic and Islamic poetry, prose, and fiction to come out of the twentieth century, Al-Musawi provides context for the complex images of Arab and Islamic culture given by the various social, religious, and political groups, providing the motivations. Readers interested in the influence of religion and secularism within modern Islamic Arabic literature will find that the author addresses the presence of Islam and Sufism in ways that secular commentators have been incapable of doing.
A Short History of Modern Arabic Literature
Author: Muḥammad Muṣṭafá Badawī
Publisher: Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780198265429
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Badawi gives a concise and authoritative survey, in English, of the whole whole of modern Arabic literature since the mid-19th century. He charts the efforts of Arab authors to meet the modern world in the imported forms of the novel, short story, and drama, aswell as in their indigenous poetic and prose tradition.
An Introduction to the History of Modern Arabic Literature in Egypt
Author: J. Brugman
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-10-16
Total Pages: 455
ISBN-13: 9004663037
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Brief Introduction to Modern Arabic Literature
Author: David Tresilian
Publisher: Saqi
Published: 2012-02-13
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 0863568025
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Modern Arabic literature remains little known and poorly understood despite growing curiosity among European readers. This brief introduction offers a unique overview, focusing on developments over the last fifty years. It provides a guide to the literary landscape, indicating the major landmarks in the shape of authors, ideas and debates. The picture that emerges shows that the literature of the modern Arab world, Europe's closest neighbour, is not so far from us as we are sometimes encouraged to think. A timely contribution to the dialogue between East and West, bringing modern Arabic literature into the mainstream for English-speaking readers. 'Tresilian's book is not only informative about its subject but also provides thought-provoking messages to the general reader.' -- Denys Johnson Davies Banipal
Modern Arabic Fiction
Author: Salma Khadra Jayyusi
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 1096
ISBN-13: 9780231132541
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Beginning with the late-nineteenth-century cultural resurgence and continuing through the present day, short stories and novels have given voice to the personal and historical experiences of modern Arabs. This anthology offers a rich and diverse selection of works from more than one hundred and forty prominent Arab writers of fiction. The collection reflects Arab writers' formal inventiveness as well as their intense exploration of various dimensions of modern Arab life, including the impact of modernity, the rise of the oil economy, political authoritarianism, corruption, religion, poverty, and the Palestinian experience in modern times. Salma Khadra Jayyusi, a renowned scholar of Arabic literature, has included short stories and excerpts from novels from authors in every Arab country. Modern Arabic Fiction contains writings stretching from the pioneering work of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century authors to the novels of Naguib Mahfouz and the stories of contemporary Arab writers. In addition to familiar names such as Mahfouz, the anthology presents excerpts from writers well known in the Arab world but just beginning to find an audience in the West, including early twentieth century Christian Lebanese writer Jurji Zaydan, whose historical epics were eye-openers for generations of Arab readers to the achievements of medieval Islamic civilization; Yusuf Idris's complex and brilliant portrait of Egypt's poor; 'Abd al-Rahman Muneef's searing exploration of the ecological and social impact of oil production; Palestinian writer Jabra Ibrahim Jabra's sophisticated description of the dilemma's of modern Arab intellectuals; and Jamal al-Ghitani's impressive employment of mythical time and the continuity of the past in the present. Jayyusi provides biographical information on the writers as well as a substantial and illuminating introduction to the development of modern Arabic fictional genres that considers the central thematic and aesthetic concerns of Arab short story writers and novelists.
