Author : Tahera Qutbuddin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 659 pages
File Size : 30,8 MB
Release : 2019-06-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004395806
In Arabic Oration: Art and Function, Tahera Qutbuddin presents a comprehensive theory of this foundational prose genre, analysing its oral aesthetics and its political, military, and religious functions in early Islamic civilization, tracing its echoes in Muslim public address today.
Author : Tahera Qutbuddin
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,62 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Arabic language
ISBN : 9789004394407
In Arabic Oration: Art and Function, Tahera Qutbuddin presents a comprehensive theory of this foundational prose genre, analysing its oral aesthetics and its political, military, and religious functions in early Islamic civilization, tracing its echoes in Muslim public address today.
Author : Beatrice Gruendler
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 32,47 MB
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0674250265
The little-known story of the sophisticated and vibrant Arabic book culture that flourished during the Middle Ages. During the thirteenth century, Europe’s largest library owned fewer than 2,000 volumes. Libraries in the Arab world at the time had exponentially larger collections. Five libraries in Baghdad alone held between 200,000 and 1,000,000 books each, including multiple copies of standard works so that their many patrons could enjoy simultaneous access. How did the Arabic codex become so popular during the Middle Ages, even as the well-established form languished in Europe? Beatrice Gruendler’s The Rise of the Arabic Book answers this question through in-depth stories of bookmakers and book collectors, stationers and librarians, scholars and poets of the ninth century. The history of the book has been written with an outsize focus on Europe. The role books played in shaping the great literary cultures of the world beyond the West has been less known—until now. An internationally renowned expert in classical Arabic literature, Gruendler corrects this oversight and takes us into the rich literary milieu of early Arabic letters.
Author : Al-Qadi al-Quda
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 41,21 MB
Release : 2013-02-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0814729142
A Treasury of Virtues is a collection by the Fatimid Shafi‘i judge al-Quda‘i (d. 454 H/1062 AD) of sayings, sermons, and teachings attributed to ‘Ali ibn Abi Talib (d. 40 H/661 AD). ‘Ali was the cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad, the first Shia Imam and the fourth Sunni Caliph. An acknowledged master of Arabic eloquence and a sage of Islamic wisdom, Ali was renowned for his words, which were collected, quoted, and studied over the centuries, and extensively anthologized, excerpted, and interpreted. Of the many compilations of ‘Ali’s words, A Treasury of Virtues arguably possesses the broadest compass of genres, and the largest variety of themes. Included are aphorisms, proverbs, sermons, speeches, homilies, prayers, letters, dialogues and verse, all of which provide instruction on how to be a morally upstanding human being. The shorter compilation included here, One Hundred Proverbs, is attributed to the eminent writer al-Jahiz (d. 255 H/869 AD). This volume presents a new critical edition of the Arabic based on several original manuscripts, the first English translation of both these important collections, and an extended introduction.
Author : Hussein Abdul-Raof
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 32,8 MB
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1134170351
Arabic Rhetoric explores the history, disciplines, order and pragmatic functions of Arabic speech acts. It offers a new understanding of Arabic rhetoric and employs examples from modern standard Arabic as well as providing a glossary of over 448 rhetorical expressions listed in English with their translations, which make the book more accessible to the modern day reader. Hussein’s study of Arabic rhetoric bridges the gap between learning and research, whilst also meeting the academic needs of our present time. This up-to-date text provides a valuable source for undergraduate students learning Arabic as a foreign language, and is also an essential text for researchers in Arabic, Islamic studies, and students of linguistics and academics.
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 18,61 MB
Release : 2021-12-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9004500642
Late Antique Responses to the Arab Conquests is a showcase of new discoveries in an exciting and rapidly developing field: the study of the transition from Late Antiquity to Early Islam. The Arab conquests are shown to have changed both the Arabian conquerors and the conquered.
Author : Piamenta
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 34,48 MB
Release : 2023-11-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9004661662
Author : Marieke J.E. van den Doel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 12,31 MB
Release : 2021-12-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9004459685
Did the Florentine philosopher Marsilio Ficino (1433-99) influence the art of his time? This book starts with an exploration of Ficino’s views on the imagination and discusses whether, how and why these ideas may have been received in Italian Renaissance works of art.
Author : Adūnīs
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 16,18 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0300153066
"Frontispiece: Poem and calligraphy by Adonis, XXXX. Translated by Bassam Frangieh" --T.p. verso.
Author : Jonathan Owens
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 41,22 MB
Release : 2006-05-11
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0191537462
A Linguistic History of Arabic presents a reconstruction of proto-Arabic by the methods of historical-comparative linguistics. It challenges the traditional conceptualization of an old, Classical language evolving into the contemporary Neo-Arabic dialects. Professor Owens combines established comparative linguistic methodology with a careful reading of the classical Arabic sources, such as the grammatical and exegetical traditions. He arrives at a richer and more complex picture of early Arabic language history than is current today and in doing so establishes the basis for a comprehensive, linguistically-based understanding of the history of Arabic. The arguments are set out in a concise, case by case basis, making it accessible to students and scholars of Arabic and Islamic culture, as well as to those studying Arabic and historical linguists.
