Literary Modernity Between the Middle East and Europe
Literary Modernity Between the Middle East and Europe

Author: Kamran Rastegar

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2007-09-12

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 1134094256

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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 Eastern literature in the modern period.

Medieval Arabic Praise Poetry
Medieval Arabic Praise Poetry

Author: Beatrice Gruendler

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780700714902

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Gruendler gives an insight into panegyrics (madih), a genre central to understanding medieval Near Eastern Society. It has until now largely escaped scholarly attention.

Middle Eastern Literatures and Their Times
Middle Eastern Literatures and Their Times

Author: Joyce Moss

Publisher: G. K. Hall

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 646

ISBN-13:

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Examines the relationship between the political/social climate during which books were written and the works themselves. This volume focuses on major fiction, poetry and nonfiction from the Middle East.

Medieval Arabic Praise Poetry
Medieval Arabic Praise Poetry

Author: Beatrice Gruendler

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-12-19

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 131783237X

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This book gives an insight into panegyrics, a genre central to understanding medieval Near Eastern Society. Poets in this multi-ethnic society would address the majority of their verse to rulers, generals, officials, and the urban upper classes, its tone ranging from celebration to reprimand and even to threat.

Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur and Arabic Writerly Culture
Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur and Arabic Writerly Culture

Author: Shawkat M. Toorawa

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-08-02

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 1134430531

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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 the production of learned and literary culture; modes of transmission of learning; nature and types of literary production; nature of scholarly and professional occupations and alliances; and ranges of meanings of certain key concepts, such as plagiarism. In order to better understand these, attention is focused on a central but understudied figure, Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur (d. 280 to 893), a writer, schoolmaster, scholar and copyist, member of important literary circles, and a significant anthologist and chronicler. This book will appeal to anyone interested in Arabic literary culture and history, and those with an interest in books, writing, authorship and patronage.