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A Brief Introduction to Arabic Erotic Literature
Nadia Al-Bagdadi
Paperback - $20.95
Arabic literature is traditionally unrestrained in its depiction of all forms of eroticism, from sensuality and mundane obscenities to frivolous fantasies of paradise.
This brief introduction portrays the world of Arabic erotic literature in all it ...
Naguib Mahfouz : A Western and Eastern Cage of Female Entrapment
Pamela Allegretto-Diiulio
Hardcover - $201.95
The Arabic Literary Heritage : The Development of Its Genres and Criticism
Roger Allen
Hardcover - $275.95
The Arabic Literary Heritage describes a cultural tradition of literary texts in Arabic from the fifth century A.D. to the present day. After two preliminary chapters on principles and contexts, there are chapters devoted to the Qu'ran as literature, ...
An Introduction to Arabic Literature
Roger M. A. Allen
Paperback - $80.95
Roger Allen provides a comprehensive introductory survey of literary texts in Arabic, from their unknown beginnings in the fifth century AD to the present day, and from Islam's sacred text, the Qur'an, to popular literature including The Arabian Nigh ...
A Short History of Modern Arabic Literature
Muhammad Mustafa Badawi
Hardcover - $474.95
This is the first book in English that gives a concise and authoritative survey of the whole of modern Arabic literature since the mid-nineteenth century. It is designed to help the general reader as well as the student to form a clear picture of the ...
I Saw Ramallah
Murid Barghuthi
Paperback - $21.95
Winner of the prestigious Naguib Mahfouz Medal, this fierce and moving work is an unparalleled rendering of the human aspects of the Palestinian predicament.
Barred from his homeland after 1967's Six-Day War, the poet Mourid Barghouti spent thirt ...
The History of Syriac Literature and Sciences (2nd Revised Edition)
A. I. Barsoum
Hardcover - $262.95
Patriarch Aphram Barsoum's al-Lu'lu' al-Manthur (The Scattered Pearls) is the most extensive survey of Syriac literature ever compiled by an eastern scholar. Unlike its European counterparts, it covers Syriac literature until the beginning of the twe ...
