Tradition and modernity in Arabic language and literature
This work covers a range of literary and linguistic subjects from pre-Islamic times up to the 20th century. It discusses issues pertaining to the development of Arabic literature, and the Arabic language in all its registers from high literary, through Middle Arabic to modern colloquial.
Conference papers and proceedings
1 online resource (351 pages)
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Romanticism and modern Arabic literature / Jareer Abu-Haidar
Tradition as a factor of Arabic modernism : Darwīsh's application of a mask / Ali J. al-Allaq
Tradition and modernity in Arabic poetry : the constant challenge, the perennial assertion / Salma Jayyusi
Sundry observations on the fate of poetry in the early Islamic period / James E. Montgomery
Changing technique in modern Arabic poetry : a reflection of changing values? / Fatma Moussa-Mahmoud
Literacy, munificence and legitimation of power during the reign of the Party kings in Muslim Spain / Arie Schippers
The authenticity of the poems ascribed to Umayya Ibn Abī al-Ṣalt / Tilman Seidensticker
The hunt in the arabic Qaṣīdah : the antecedents of the Ṭardiyyah / Jaroslav Stetkevych
ʻAbbāsid panegyric : the politics and poetics of ceremony : Al-Mutanabbi's ʻĪd-poem to Sayf al-Dawlah / Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych
Najīb al-Ḥaddād's essay on the comparison of Arabic and European poetry / Geert Jan van Gelder
Arabic influences in the literature of nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain / E. Edmund Bosworth
Tradition and modernity in the work of the Tunisian writer al-Masʻadī / J.C. Bürgel
The organizational principles in Ibn Sallām's Ṭabaqāt fuḥūl al-shuʻarāʼ : a reconsideration / Adel S. Gamal
On rhyming endings and symmetric phrases in al-Hamadhānī's Maqāmāt / Tamás Iványi
The prose literature of pre-Islamic Arabia / Alan Jones
Modernity in a classical Arabic adab work, the Kitāb al-aghānī / Hilary Kilpatrick
An incomplete Egyptian ballad on the 1956 War / Pierre Cachia
Mysticism in Arabic writing / Kinga Dévényi
Rescuing Arabic rhetoric from neglect : a text-linguistic approach / Basil Hatim
The dispute of coffee and tea : a debate-poem from the Gulf / Clive Holes
Some sociolonguistic concepts of style and stylistic variation in spoken Arabic, with reference to Nagīb Maḥfūẓ talking about his life / Gunvor Mejdell
The language of Ibn al-Mujāwir's 7th/13th century guide to Arabia, Tārīkh al-mustabṣir / G. Rex Smith
"This volume is a collection of papers presented at the Second Shaban Memorial Conference, held at the University of Exeter in September 1994"--Preface
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