The Shipwrecked Sailor in Arabic and Western Literature - Ibn Tufayl and His Influence on European Writers

Informationen zum Autor Mahmoud Baroud is Assistant Professor in the English Department at The Islamic University of Gaza, Palestine. He holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter. Klappentext Mahmoud Baroud here conducts a detailed comparative textual analysis of 'Hayy Bin Yaqzan' and 'Robinson Crusoe'! and concludes that Daniel Defoe was likely to have been deeply influenced by Ibn Tufayl's Arabic text. Zusammenfassung Mahmoud Baroud here conducts a detailed comparative textual analysis of 'Hayy Bin Yaqzan' and 'Robinson Crusoe', and concludes that Daniel Defoe was likely to have been deeply influenced by Ibn Tufayl's Arabic text. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Chapter 1: Reception of Ibn Tufayl’s Hayy Bin Yaqzan in eighteenth-century England Chapter 2: The Sources of Robinson Crusoe and Hayy Bin Yaqzan Chapter 3: Desert Islands and their Purpose Chapter 4: The Heroes’ Spiritual Journeys and Evolution Chapter 5: The Heroes’ Encounter with the Other Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Mahmoud Baroud, Mahmud Baroud
• Publisher: Tauris, I.B.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.08.2012
• EAN: 9781848855526
• ISBN: 978-1-84885-552-6
• No. of pages: 296
• Dimensions: 144 mm x 218 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Library of Modern Middle East Studies; Library of Modern Middle East; Library of Modern Middle East; Library of Modern Middle East Studies; Bloomsbury 3PL
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies