Roger M. A. Allen

Roger 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

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

An Introduction to Arabic Literature

Terri DeYoung

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

Denys Johnson-Davies

Collects twenty-four short stories by Arabic authors such as Bahaa Taher, Alifa Rifaat, and Edward El-Kharrat, which explore such themes as prostitution, adultery, and arranged marriage.

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