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Arabic Literature - الأدب العربي: Arabic Literature: History & Criticism

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Selected Histories & Studies

Allen, Roger et al. (eds.)
Love and sexuality in modern Arabic literature.
London: Saqi Books, 1995.
Perkins/Bostock Library PJ7519.L6 L68 1995 Check availability @ Duke
Allen, Roger and D.S. Richards (eds.)
Arabic literature in the post-classical period.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
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Amer, Sahar.
Crossing borders: love between women in medieval French and Arabic literatures.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.
Perkins/Bostock Library PQ155.L47 A44 2008 Check availability @ Duke
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Ashtiany, Julia (ed.)
Abbasid belles-lettres.
Cambridge [England] ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Perkins/Bostock Library Reference PJ7530 .A18 1990 Check availability @ Duke
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Badawī, Muḥammad Muṣṭafá.
Modern Arabic literature.
Cambridge [England] ; New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Perkins/Bostock Library PJ7538 .M58 1992 Check availability @ Duke
Badawī, Muḥammad Muṣṭafá.
A short history of modern Arabic literature.
Oxford; New York: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press, 1993.
Perkins/Bostock Library PJ7538 .B265 1993 Check availability @ Duke
Beeston, A. F. L.
Arabic literature to the end of the Umayyad period.
Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
Perkins/Bostock Library PJ7510 .A8 1983 Check availability @ Duke
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Blachère, Régis.
Histoire de la littérature arabe des origines à la fin du XVe siècle de J.-C.
Paris: A. Maisonneuve, 1952-66.
Library Service Center 892.709 B627H t.1-3 Check availability @ Duke
Bourget, Carine.
The star, the cross, and the crescent : religions and conflicts in Francophone literature from the Arab world.
Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2010.
Perkins/Bostock Library PQ3980.5 .B68 2010 Check availability @ Duke
Table of Contents: Introduction: religion, politics, and literature in the Francophone Arab world. The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Amin Maalouf's Les Croisades vues par les Arabes and Les échelles du Levant, Myriam Antaki's Les versets du pardon -- The Arab-Israeli Conflict beyond the Middle East: Albert Memmi, Edmond Amran El Maleh, Farid Boudjellal, and Karin Albou -- The Lebanese Civil War: Andrée Chédid's La maison sans racines and Evelyne Accad's L'excisée -- The Algerian Civil War: Rachid Boudjedra's Le FIS de la haine, Rachid Mimouni's De la barbarie en général et de l'intégrisme en particulier, and Une enfance algérienne -- Islam and the French Republic: the affair of the Muslim headscarf in works by Tahar Ben Jelloun, Abdelwahab Meddeb, Amin Maalouf, Albert Memmi, Leïla Sebbar, and Yamina Benguigui -- Portrait of a terrorist: Slimane Benaïssa and Salim Bachi's 9/11 novels -- Conclusion: the politics of translation: Francophone literature from the Arab World in the U.S.
Cheikho, Louis.
History of Arabic literature in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries = الاداب العربية في القرن التاسع عشر والربع الاول من القرن العشرين = La littérature arabe au xixe siècle et dans le premier quart du xxe siècle.
Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2008.
Perkins/Bostock Library PJ7538 .C54 2008 Check availability @ Duke
cooke, miriam.
Women claim Islam : creating Islamic feminism through literature.
New York ; London: Routledge, 2000.
Perkins/Bostock Library HQ1170 .C665 2000 Check availability @ Duke
El-Ariss, Tarek.
Trials of Arab modernity : literary affects and the new political.
New York: Fordham University Press, 2013.
Library Service CenterPJ7538 .E43 2013 Check availability @ Duke
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Gemie, Sharif.
Women's writing and Muslim societies : the search for dialogue, 1920-present.
Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2012.
Perkins/Bostock Library PJ7519.W66 G465 2012 Check availability @ Duke
Ḥāfiẓ, Ṣabrī.
The genesis of Arabic narrative discourse : a study in the sociology of modern Arabic literature.
London: Saqi Books, 1993.
Perkins/Bostock Library PJ7538 .H25 1993 Check availability @ Duke
Ḥāfiẓ, Ṣabrī.
The quest for identities : the development of the modern Arabic short story.
London ; San Francisco: Saqi, 2007.
Perkins/Bostock Library PJ7577 .H26 2007 Check availability @ Duke
Hallaq, Boutros et Heidi Toelle.
Histoire de la littérature arabe moderne.
Arles: Sindbad : Actes sud, 2007-
Library Service Center PJ7538 .H588 2007 t.1- Check availability @ Duke
Liu, Benjamin M. and James T. Monroe.
Ten Hispano-Arabic strophic songs in the modern oral tradition : music and texts.
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1989.
Perkins/Bostock Library 405 C153P, v. 124/, 125 Check availability @ Duke
Menocal, Maria Rosa et al.
The literature of Al-Andalus.
Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Perkins/Bostock Library PJ8417.A5 A65 2000 Check availability @ Duke
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Meyer, Stefan G.
The experimental Arabic novel : postcolonial literary modernism in the Levant.
Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001.
Perkins/Bostock Library PJ7577 .M49 2001 Check availability @ Duke
Muhawi, Ibrahim and Yasir Suleiman (eds.)
Literature and nation in the Middle East.
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006.
Perkins/Bostock Library PJ7519.N3 L58 2006 Check availability @ Duke
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Mūsawī, Muḥsin Jāsim.
Islam on the street : religion in modern Arabic literature.
Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2009.
Perkins/Bostock Library PJ7519.I84 M87 2009 Check availability @ Duke
Mūsawī, Muḥsin Jāsim.
The Islamic context of the Thousand and one nights.
New York: Columbia University Press, 2009.
Perkins/Bostock Library PJ7737 .M75 2009 Check availability @ Duke
Table of Contents: Introduction: is there an Islamic context for the Thousand and one nights? -- The Islamic factor in global times -- The unifying Islamic factor -- The age of Muslim empire and the burgeoning of a text -- The changing order: the role of the public in the Thousand and one nights -- Nonreligious displacements in popular tradition -- The public role in Islamic narrative theorizations -- Scheherazade's nonverbal narratives in religious contexts -- Conclusions.
Nallino, Carlo Alfonso.
La littérature arabe des origines à l'époque de la dynastie umayyade; leçons professées en arabe à l'Université du Caire.
Paris: G. P. Maisonneuve, 1950.
Library Service Center 953 I82, v. 6 Check availability @ Duke
Neuwirth, Angelika.
Scripture, poetry, and the making of a community : reading the Qurʼan as a literary text.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2014.
Divinity School Library BP130 .N48 2014 Check availability @ Duke
Library Service Center BP130 .N48 2014 Check availability @ Duke
Patel, Abdulrazzak.
The Arab nahdah : the making of the intellectual and humanist movement.
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013.
TRLN Shared Print Collection Library Service Center DS36.88 .P38 2013 Check availability @ Duke
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Reynolds, Dwight Fletcher (ed.)
Interpreting the self : autobiography in the Arabic literary tradition.
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001.
Perkins/Bostock Library PJ7519.A9 I58 2001Check availability @ Duke
Starkey, Paul.
Modern Arabic literature.
Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2006.
Perkins/Bostock Library PJ7538 .S73 2006 Check availability @ Duke
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Table of Contents: The background -- The revival -- Neo-classical poetry -- Romanticism in Arabic poetry -- Poetry: the modernists -- Prose literature: early developments -- Prose literature: the period of maturity -- The sixties generation and beyond -- Drama: early experiments -- Drama: the period of maturity.
Stetkevych, Jaroslav.
The zephyrs of Najd : the poetics of nostalgia in the classical Arabic nasīb.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
Perkins/Bostock Library PJ7542.Q3 S74 1993Check availability @ Duke
Stetkevych, Suzanne Pinckney.
The mantle odes : Arabic praise poems to the Prophet Muhammad.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010.
Perkins/Bostock Library PJ7642.M75 S74 2010 Check availability @ Duke
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Stetkevych, Suzanne Pinckney.
The poetics of Islamic legitimacy: myth, gender, and ceremony in the classical Arabic ode.
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2002.
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Szombathy, Zoltán.
Mūjun : libertinism in mediaeval Muslim society and literature.
Warminster: Gibb Memorial Trust, 2013.
Perkins/Bostock Library PJ7528 .S96 2013 Check availability @ Duke