Fedwa Malti-Douglas

Roger Allen

Studies in the Arabic Literary Tradition

Critical Pilgrimages

Terri DeYoung

Mona Radwan

Jonathan Smolin

Essays by Tawfiq Al-Hakim

Revolt of the Young

Aḥmad Tawfīq

Ahmed Toufiq

Set in the High Atlas in pre-modern Morocco, Moon and Henna Tree chronicles the rise and fall of a local potentate, Hmmu. Not content with the territory left to him upon his father’s death, Hmmu, under the influence of his scheming advisor, Ibn al-Zara, begins a campaign to acquire those lands that adjoin his, either through marriage or physical force. Ahmed Toufiq’s subtle investigation of the abuse of power and its effects on those who suffer under its tyranny also provides a unique look at Amazigh (Berber) culture. While most of Toufiq’s contemporaries focus on modern urban Morocco, he provides a fascinating, and accurate, account of the customs and traditions of a large, yet often ignored, segment of the population. Moon and Henna Tree (in the original Arabic) won the Moroccan Book Prize in 1989.

Moon and Henna Tree

Roger M. A. Allen

An accessible introduction to the cultural tradition of literary texts in Arabic from the fifth century AD to the present day.

The Development of Its Genres and Criticism

The Arabic Literary Heritage

This book is devoted to the life and academic legacy of Mustafa Badawi who transformed the study of Modern Arabic Literature in the second half of the 20th century.

Mustafa Badawi, Scholar and Critic

Studying Modern Arabic Literature

An accessible introduction to Arabic literature from the fifth century to the present.

An Introduction to Arabic Literature

D. S. Richards

The final volume of The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature explores the Arabic literary heritage of the little-known period from the twelfth to the beginning of the nineteenth century. Even though it was during this time that the famous Thousand and One Nights was composed, very little has been written on the literature of the period generally. In this volume Roger Allen and Donald Richards bring together some of the most distinguished scholars in the field to rectify the situation. The volume is divided into parts with the traditions of poetry and prose covered separately within both their 'elite' and 'popular' contexts. The last two sections are devoted to drama and the indigenous tradition of literary criticism. As the only work of its kind in English covering the post-classical period, this book promises to be a unique resource for students and scholars of Arabic literature for many years to come.

Arabic Literature in the Post-Classical Period

An Historical and Critical Introduction

The Arabic Novel

This edition includes new material on the Arabic novel up to 1993. It is a survey of the Arabic novel and its development from its beginnings in the 19th century until today. It traces the origin, early cultivation and the mature period after World War II of the Arabic novel.

An Historical and Critical Introduction, Second Edition

Joseph Edmund Lowry

Mary S. St. Germain

Devin J. Stewart

The essays, which discuss authors in a variety of literary genres and across the spectrum of the region concerned-from Iraq in the East to Tunisia in the West-provide clear evidence of the gradually changing roles of the indigenous and the imported which are an intrinsic feature of the movement known in Arabic as al-bahada (cultural revival) and the way in which Arab litterateurs chose to respond to the inspiration that such changes inevitably engendered. --

Essays in Arabic Literary Biography: 1850-1950

Salma Khadra Jayyusi

Translations of 12 Arabic plays written and produced during the past thirty years.

An Anthology

Modern Arabic Drama

Francine Ringold

Arabic Literature, Then and Now

Tzvetan Todorov

Wayne State University Press

Muhsin Mahdi

Michael Cooperson

Muhsin Jassim Ali

Heinz Grotzfeld

Nabia Abbott

Gustave E. von Grunebaum

Solomon D. Goitein

Peter Heath

Jamel-Eddine Bencheikh

Andras Hamori

Peter D. Molan

An authoritative guide to research inspired by the Arabian Nights, containing sixteen influential essays.

The Arabian Nights Reader

Roger Allen

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