Culture and Civilization in the Middle East
About the Book Series
This series studies the Middle East through the twin foci of its diverse cultures and civilizations. Comprising original monographs as well as scholarly surveys, it covers topics in the fields of Middle Eastern literature, archaeology, law, history, philosophy, science, folklore, art, architecture and language. While there is a plurality of views, the series presents serious scholarship in a lucid and stimulating fashion.
Arab Representations of the Occident: East-West Encounters in Arabic Fiction
1st Edition
By Rasheed El-Enany
March 08, 2011
This is one of the first books in English to explore Arab responses to Western culture and values in modern Arab literature. Through in-depth research El-Enany examines the attitudes as expressed mainly through works of fiction written by Arab authors during the twentieth, and, to a lesser extent, ...
Arabic Rhetoric: A Pragmatic Analysis
1st Edition
By Hussein Abdul-Raof
March 08, 2011
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 ...
Folklore and Folklife in the United Arab Emirates
1st Edition
By Sayyid Hamid Hurriez
March 08, 2011
A unique description and analysis of the domains and genres of UAE folklore, including folk customs and beliefs, traditional arts and crafts, folk dances, folk narratives and proverbs. Challenging the established meaning of folklife, this volume also deals with folklore in public life, in the mass ...
Ibn ‘Arabî - Time and Cosmology
1st Edition
By Mohamed Haj Yousef
February 23, 2011
This book is the first comprehensive attempt to explain Ibn ‘Arabî’s distinctive view of time and its role in the process of creating the cosmos and its relation with the Creator. By comparing this original view with modern theories of physics and cosmology, Mohamed Haj Yousef constructs a new ...
Structure and Meaning in Medieval Arabic and Persian Lyric Poetry: Orient Pearls
1st Edition
By Julie Meisami
February 23, 2011
This is the first comprehensive and comparative study of compositional and stylistic techniques in medieval Arabic and Persian lyric poetry. Ranging over some seven countries, it deals with works by over thirty poets in the Islamic world from Spain to present-day Afghanistan, and examines how this ...
God and Humans in Islamic Thought: Abd al-Jabbar, Ibn Sina and Al-Ghazali
1st Edition
By Maha Elkaisy-Friemuth
January 26, 2011
Winner of The Iranian World Prize for the Book of the Year 2007 in the Philosophy and Mysticism category. This new and original text provides a timely re-examination of Islamic thought, presenting a stark contrast to the more usual conservative view. The explanation of the relationship between God...
Muslims and Christians in Norman Sicily: Arabic-Speakers and the End of Islam
1st Edition
By Alexander Metcalfe
January 13, 2011
The social and linguistic history of medieval Sicily is both intriguing and complex. Before the Muslim invasion of 827, the islanders spoke dialects of either Greek or Latin or both. On the arrival of the Normans around 1060 Arabic was the dominant language, but by 1250 Sicily was an almost ...
Qur'an Translation: Discourse, Texture and Exegesis
1st Edition
By Hussein Abdul-Raof
December 21, 2010
The Qur'an is read by millions of Muslims on a daily basis, yet there is no book available to the reader, Arab or non-Arab, which provides a linguistic and rhetorical insight into Qur'anic discourse. This book explains Qur'an translational problems and provides a thorough account of the unique ...
The Formative Period of Twelver Shi'ism: Hadith as Discourse Between Qum and Baghdad
1st Edition
By Andrew J. Newman
December 21, 2010
Shows how the frictions and disparities between the different pockets of believers scattered throughout the Eastern Islamic world in the late ninth and tenth centuries, the relations between each of these and the Abbasid political institution favoured the narration of different bodies of the Imams'...
Arabic Literature: An Overview
1st Edition
By Pierre Cachia
December 13, 2010
Assuming no previous knowledge of the subject, Arabic Literature - An Overview gives a rounded and balanced view of Arab literary creativity. 'High' literature is examined alongside popular folk literature, and the classical and modern periods, usually treated separately, are presented together. ...
The Epistemology of Ibn Khaldun
1st Edition
By Zaid Ahmad
December 13, 2010
This is an analytical examination of Ibn Khaldun's epistemology, centred on Chapter Six of the Muqaddima. In this chapter, entitled The Book of Knowledge (Kitab al'Ilm), Ibn Khaldun sketched his general ideas about knowledge and science and its relationship with human social organisation and the ...
The Philosophical Poetics of Alfarabi, Avicenna and Averroes: The Aristotelian Reception
1st Edition
By Salim Kemal
December 13, 2010
This book examines the studies of Aristotle's Poetics and its related texts in which three Medieval philosophers - Alfarabi, Avicenna and Averroes - proposed a conception of poetic validity (beauty), and a just relation between subjects in a community (goodness). The work considers the relation of ...