Bensalem Himmich is a novelist, philosopher, and poet. He received the 2002 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature for The Polymath. Roger Allen is the Sascha Jane Patterson Harvie Professor of Social Thought and Comparative Ethics in the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania.
39 Ebooks von Roger Allen
Bensalem Himmich: A Muslim Suicide
Award-winning novelist Bensalem Himmich’s third novel to be translated into English is a vertiginous exploration of one of Islam’s most radical thinkers, the Sufi philosopher Ibn Sab’in. Born in Spai …
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Ibrahim al-Koni: A Sleepless Eye
The Libyan landscape is one of the most diverse and breathtaking, replete with barren deserts, vast ocean coasts, and a stunning display of earth’s elements. Al-Koni, an award-winning and critically …
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Monarch of the Square
A master of the short story form, Muhammad Zafzaf is one of Morocco’s greatest narrative writers. This anthology, the first collection of his work translated into English, is a tribute to the remarka …
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Bensalem Himmich: My Torturess
In this harrowing novel, a young Moroccan bookseller is falsely accused of being involved in jihadist activities. Drugged and carried off the street, Hamuda is ‚extraordinarily rendered‘ to a prison …
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Nayra Atiya: Shahaama
Between the late 1970s and the early 1980s, Nayra Atiya gathered the oral histories of five Egyptian men: a fisherman, an attorney, a scholar, a business- man, and a production manager. Through …
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Muhammad Zafzaf: The Elusive Fox
Considered one of Morocco’s most important contemporary writers, Muhammad Zafzaf created stories of alterity, compassionate tales inhabited by prostitutes, thieves, and addicts living in the margins …
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Jilali Koudia: Moroccan Folktales
Drawing on stories he heard as a boy from female relatives, Jilali El Koudia presents a cross section of utterly bewitching narratives. Filled with ghouls and fools, kind magic and wicked, eternal bo …
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Valerie J. Hoffman: Making the New Middle East
Demands for freedom, justice, and dignity have animated protests and revolutions across the Middle East in recent years, from the Iranian Green Movement and the Arab Spring uprisings to Turkey’s …
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Naguib Mahfouz: The Quarter
Meet the people of Cairo’s Gamaliya quarter. There is Nabqa, son of Adam the waterseller who can only speak truths; the beautiful and talented Tawhida who does not age with time; Ali Zaidan, the …
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Muḥammad al-Muwayliḥī: What ʿĪsā ibn Hishām Told Us
With What ʿĪsā ibn Hishām Told Us, the Library of Arabic Literature brings readers an acknowledged masterpiece of early twentieth-century Arabic prose. Penned by the Egyptian journalist Muḥammad al-M …
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Muḥammad al-Muwayliḥī: What ʿĪsā ibn Hishām Told Us
Trenchant and witty critiques of life in Cairo under British rule What ʿĪsā ibn Hishām Told Us is a masterpiece of early twentieth-century Arabic prose. Penned by the Egyptian journalist Muḥammad al- …
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Muḥammad al-Muwayliḥī: What ʿĪsā ibn Hishām Told Us
With What ʿĪsā ibn Hishām Told Us, the Library of Arabic Literature brings readers an acknowledged masterpiece of early twentieth-century Arabic prose. Penned by the Egyptian journalist Muḥammad al-M …
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Bensalem Himmich: The Polymath
This award-winning historical novel deals with the stormy life of the outstanding Arab philosopher Ibn Khaldun, using historical sources, and particularly material from the writer’s works, to …
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Bensalem Himmich: The Theocrat
The Theocrat takes as its subject one of Arab and Islamic history’s most perplexing figures, al-Hakim bi-Amr Illah (‚the ruler by order of God‘), the Fatimid caliph who ruled Egypt during the tenth …
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Naguib Mahfouz: The Final Hour
Hamid Burhan, a retired government employee, and his loyal wife Saniya have built themselves a home in the quiet southern suburb of Helwan, where they raise their son and two daughters, expecting …
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Hassan Najmi: Gertrude
As Hassan Najmi’s acclaimed novel begins, our unnamed narrator befriends an elderly man, Muhammad, who, as a young man, worked as a tour guide in the city of Tangier. Muhammad tells the narrator …
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Roger Allen: Richard Wagner’s Beethoven (1870)
Indispensable reading for historians and musicologists as well as those interested in Wagner’s philosophy and the aesthetics of music.
Despite the enormous and accelerating worldwide interest in …
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Roger Allen: The Darkroom Boy
Roger Allen is one of the dying breed of Fleet Street photographers who has travelled the world taking pictures of royalty, prime ministers, celebrities, war zones, tragedies, bank robberies … the …
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Roger Allen: Wilhelm Furtwängler
Wilhelm Furtwängler (1886-1954) has entered the historical memory as a renowned interpreter of the canon of Austro-German musical masterworks. His extensive legacy of recorded performances of …
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Roger Allen: Wilhelm Furtwängler
A pathbreaking, new intellectual biography of the composer and conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler.
Wilhelm Furtwängler (1886-1954) has entered the historical memory as a renowned interpreter of the ca …
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Roger Allen: Selected Studies in Modern Arabic Narrative
No Western scholar has contributed as much to the study of modern Arabic narrative as has Roger Allen. His doctoral dissertation was the very first Oxford D.Phil. in modern Arabic literature, …
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Roger Allen & D. S. Richards: Arabic Literature in the Post-Classical Period
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Roger Allen & D. S. Richards: Arabic Literature in the Post-Classical Period
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Roger Allen & Robin Ostle: Studying Modern Arabic Literature
Shows how the study of modern Arabic literature was transformed by Mustafa Badawi Prior to the 1960s the study of Arabic literature, both Classical and Modern, had barely been emancipated from the …
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Ghallab Abdelkrim Ghallab: We Have Buried the Past
Abdelkrim Ghallab’s postcolonial We Buried the Past, originally published in 1966, was the first breakthrough Moroccan novel written in Arabic instead of French. Newly translated into English, this …
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€21.23
Jurji Zaydan: Tree of Pearls, Queen of Egypt
Shajar al-Durr, known as Tree of Pearls, was one of the most famous Arab queens and the only woman in the medieval Arab world to rule in her own name. Her narrative is one element of a much larger st …
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Ameen Rihani: The Heart of Lebanon
When celebrated mahjar writer Ameen Rihani returned to his native Lebanon from his long stay in New York, he set out on nine journeys through the Lebanese countryside, from the rising mountains to th …
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Reem Bassiouney: Sons of the People
This monumental family saga offers a vivid portrait of Egypt’s Mamluk period, one that is at both sweeping in scope and intimate in detail. Set in medieval Cairo, the novel centers on three generatio …
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William Kinderman & Katherine R. Syer: A Companion to Wagner’s Parsifal
New essays demonstrating and exploring the abiding fascination of Wagner’s controversial work.
Richard Wagner’s
Parsifal remains an inexhaustible yet highly controversial work. This ’stage conse …
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Roger Allen & Shawkat M. Toorawa: Islam
In this straightforward and authoritative collection of fifteen essays — each by a different, specialized expert in the field — readers will encounter all the major elements of Islam, including its …
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Karin C. Ryding: Teaching and Learning Arabic as a Foreign Language
This guide clearly and succinctly presents the basic tenets of teaching foreign languages specifically for Arabic teachers. Consolidating findings from second language acquisition (SLA) research and …
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€43.15
Clive Holes: Modern Arabic
The revised and updated edition of Modern Arabic takes this authoritative, concise linguistic description of the structure and use of modern Arabic to an invaluable new level. Clive Holes traces the …
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Mohammad T. Alhawary: Al-‚Arabiyya
This volume has six essays and one book review. One essay is in …
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Jonas Elbousty: Aswat Mu?asira
An engaging collection of contemporary short stories from various Arabic countries develops students‘ mastery of literary analysis and cultural awareness Aswat Mu’asira introduces advanced level …
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€56.36
Reem Bassiouney: Al-Qata’i
An award-winning novelist’s vibrant portrayal of the struggle to create a more unified society in medieval Egypt and how this has shaped Egypt today.Brimming with intrigue, adventure, and romance, …
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Naguib Mahfuz: O sussurro das estrelas
Quinze anos depois da morte de Naguib Mahfuz, coletânea reúne contos inéditos do escritor egípcio, o único autor árabe agraciado com o Nobel da Literatura. Os manuscritos, guardados em uma pasta, …
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Mohammad T. Alhawary: Al-‚Arabiyya
Al-‚Arabiyya is the annual journal of the American Society for Teachers of Arabic. It includes scholarly articles that advance the study, research, and teaching of Arabic language, linguistics, …
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