List Books » Anthology of Arabic Literature, Culture, and Thought from Pre-Islamic Times to the Present
Authors: Bassam K. Frangieh
ISBN-13: 9780300104936, ISBN-10: 0300104936
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: August 2004
Edition: 1st Edition
This book--the first comprehensive reader of Arabic literature from pre-Islamic times to the present--is an essential work for advanced students of the Arabic language. Presenting seventy works by seventy authors, it includes pre-Islamic poetry and prose; selections from the Qur'an; the Prophet Muhammad's last sermon; writings from the "Golden Age of the Arabs" in philosophy, mysticism, prose, and poetry; works from the neoclassical, modernist, and metaphorical schools; literature of the Arabs in Andalus, Spain; and discussions of cultural, literary, critical, and political movements of the present day. Each selection is followed by a vocabulary list, a list of idioms and notes, and a set of questions about the text.The book not only introduces students to the entire sweep of Arabic intellectual, political, and cultural thought but also gives examples of how this thought is expressed, offering important insights into the Arab mind.
1 | Arabian love poems | 2 |
2 | To my mother and other poems | 10 |
3 | Sadness in the moonlight | 16 |
4 | Song of rain | 23 |
5 | The gypsy symphony | 32 |
6 | Men in the sun | 38 |
7 | The epidemics | 44 |
8 | Sun on a cloudy day | 50 |
9 | The guard of the lost city | 56 |
10 | Alive in the dead sea | 64 |
11 | Children of our quarter | 70 |
12 | An evening party for June the 5[superscript th] | 80 |
13 | The grave digger | 90 |
14 | Moments of death | 96 |
15 | On Brooklyn Bridge | 103 |
16 | Directions of modern Arabic poetry | 109 |
17 | The Arabic novel | 115 |
18 | Contemporary Arab poetry | 123 |
19 | Three faces of Ghalib Halasah | 128 |
20 | On pre-Islamic literature | 135 |
21 | Human rights in Arab thought | 141 |
22 | A woman at point zero | 147 |
23 | Who hit 'A'isha? | 154 |
24 | Formless world | 163 |
25 | From local award to nobel prize | 168 |
26 | Ghassan Kanafani to Ghada Samman | 177 |
27 | Mahmoud Darwish to Samih al-Qasim | 182 |
28 | Samih al-Qasim to Mahmoud Darwish | 190 |
29 | Critique of religious thought | 197 |
30 | Cultural critique of Arab society | 202 |
31 | The shock of modernity | 209 |
32 | Our need for renewal | 219 |
33 | The nature of despotism | 226 |
34 | Americanized Islam | 231 |
35 | Nationalization of the Suez Canal | 238 |
36 | Resistance, victory, and liberation | 245 |
37 | Al-Muqaddimah | 255 |
38 | The satanic routes | 263 |
39 | May the rain be bountiful to you | 270 |
40 | Dove's necklace | 275 |
41 | The Arabian nights : Alf Laylah wa Laylah | 284 |
42 | Tribal and national heroes : biography of 'Antarah Ibn Shaddad | 293 |
43 | Gems of wisdom | 303 |
44 | Mystic paths | 310 |
45 | Al-Tawasin | 315 |
46 | Incoherence of the incoherence | 323 |
47 | The human soul | 332 |
48 | Maqama of Sana'a | 340 |
49 | Maqama on composing poetry | 345 |
50 | Evidence of inimitability in the Qur'an | 352 |
51 | Criticism of poetry | 359 |
52 | Oh, what burning of the heart | 368 |
53 | Conquest of Amorium | 373 |
54 | Tavern of the city | 377 |
55 | The epistle of forgiveness | 380 |
56 | On inclination | 388 |
57 | Kitab al-'Ayn | 394 |
58 | The unique necklace | 401 |
59 | The book of songs | 408 |
60 | Elucidation and exposition | 418 |
61 | Kalila wa Dimna | 423 |
62 | Al-Kitab | 430 |
63 | Layla's mad lover | 437 |
64 | Biography of the Prophet Muhammad | 442 |
65 | Nahj al-Balaghah | 449 |
66 | Hadith of the Prophet Muhammad | 456 |
67 | Prophet Muhammad's last sermon in 632 A.D. | 465 |
68 | Surat Maryam | 471 |
69 | Pre-Islamic Prose : selected texts | 476 |
70 | Al-Mu'allaqa | 482 |