Classical Arabic Stories - An Anthology

Zusammenfassung Short fiction was an immensely innovative art in the medieval Arab world and speaks to the urbanization of the Arab domain after Islam. It reflects the bustling life of Muslim Arabs and Islamized Persians and the sure stamp of an urbanity that had settled very staunchly after big conquests. Reading these texts today illuminates the wide spectrum of early Arab life and the influences and innovations that flourished so vibrantly in medieval Arab society. Classical Arabic Stories selects from an impressive corpus! including excerpts from seven seminal works: Ibn Tufail's novel! Hayy ibn Yaqzan; Kalila wa Dimna by Ibn al-Muqaffa; The Misers by al-Jahiz; The Brethren of Purity's The Protest of Animals Against Man; Al-Maqamat (The Assemblies) by al-Hamadhani and al-Hariri; Epistle of Forgiveness by al-Ma'arri; and the epic romance! Sayf Bin Dhi Yazan. Organized thematically! the volume begins with pre-Islamic tales! stories of rulers and other notables! and thrilling narratives of danger and warfare. It follows with tales of love! religion! comedy! and the strange and the supernatural.

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• Authors: Salma Khadra Jayyusi, Salma Khadra (EDT) Jayyusi
• Assisted by: Salma Khadra Jayyusi (Editor), Jayyusi Salma Khadra (Editor)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.11.2010
• EAN: 9780231149228
• ISBN: 978-0-231-14922-8
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Columbia University Press
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Education, FICTION / Short Stories (single author), Short Stories, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Fiction in translation, LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Middle Eastern, Anthologies: general, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Classic fiction: general and literary, Middle Eastern literary collections