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Publisher : august house
Release Date : 1996
ISBN : 9780874834505
Pages : 180 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (874 Download)
Download PDF Trickster Tales Book by Full eBook and published by august house. This book was released on 1996 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories from cultures including ancient Babylonia, China, India, Eastern Europe, Morocco.
Author : Joan Russell
Publisher : BRILL
Release Date : 1981
ISBN : 9789004064867
Pages : 290 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (4 Download)
Download PDF Communicative Competence in a Minority Group Book by Joan Russell Full eBook and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1981 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samar Habib
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Release Date : 2010
ISBN : 0313379033
Pages : 285 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (379 Download)
Download PDF Islam and Homosexuality Book by Samar Habib Full eBook and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2010 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extensive collection of essays that examines the place of homosexuality in the contemporary and classical Muslim world.
Author : Patricia Ann Lynch
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2004-01-01
ISBN : 1438119887
Pages : 137 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (119 Download)
Download PDF African Mythology A to Z Book by Patricia Ann Lynch Full eBook and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed specifically for young readers, the Mythology A to Z series explores the world's most important myths and legends in an accessible and entertaining manner. Each volume includes vividly written entries on the major figures, places, stories, objects, and themes of a given mythology. A vast continent, Africa is the home of the first humans and the birthplace of many cultures, ranging from nomadic bands to farmers to sophisticated civilizations. With four major language families and myriad peoples, Africa is also the source of a diverse and engaging body of myth. African Mythology A to Z is a clearly written reference guide to this lore. Containing 42 illustrations, two maps, a time line, a bibliography, an index, and extensive cross-references, African Mythology A to Z is a comprehensive and accessible reference guide for anyone interested in learning more about various African myths, traditions, and beliefs.
Author : Joseph A. Massad
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2008-09-15
ISBN : 0226509605
Pages : 472 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (59 Download)
Download PDF Desiring Arabs Book by Joseph A. Massad Full eBook and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sexual desire has long played a key role in Western judgments about the value of Arab civilization. In the past, Westerners viewed the Arab world as licentious, and Western intolerance of sex led them to brand Arabs as decadent; but as Western society became more sexually open, the supposedly prudish Arabs soon became viewed as backward. Rather than focusing exclusively on how these views developed in the West, in Desiring Arabs Joseph A. Massad reveals the history of how Arabs represented their own sexual desires. To this aim, he assembles a massive and diverse compendium of Arabic writing from the nineteenth century to the present in order to chart the changes in Arab sexual attitudes and their links to Arab notions of cultural heritage and civilization. A work of impressive scope and erudition, Massad’s chronicle of both the history and modern permutations of the debate over representations of sexual desires and practices in the Arab world is a crucial addition to our understanding of a frequently oversimplified and vilified culture. “A pioneering work on a very timely yet frustratingly neglected topic. . . . I know of no other study that can even begin to compare with the detail and scope of [this] work.”—Khaled El-Rouayheb, Middle East Report “In Desiring Arabs, [Edward] Said’s disciple Joseph A. Massad corroborates his mentor’s thesis that orientalist writing was racist and dehumanizing. . . . [Massad] brilliantly goes on to trace the legacy of this racist, internalized, orientalist discourse up to the present.”—Financial Times
Author : Josef W. Meri
Publisher : Psychology Press
Release Date : 2006
ISBN : 0415966906
Pages : 980 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (966 Download)
Download PDF Medieval Islamic Civilization Book by Josef W. Meri Full eBook and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the socio-cultural history of the regions where Islam took hold between the 7th and 16th century. This two-volume work contains 700 alphabetically arranged entries, and provides a portrait of Islamic civilization. It is of use in understanding the roots of Islamic society as well to explore the culture of medieval civilization.
Author : Ulrich Marzolph
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 2007
ISBN : 9780814332870
Pages : 388 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (814 Download)
Download PDF The Arabian Nights in Transnational Perspective Book by Ulrich Marzolph Full eBook and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The follow-up to The Arabian Nights Reader, this volume investigates the transnational features of the Arabian Nights.
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Publisher : Penguin UK
Release Date : 2010-02-04
ISBN : 0141943521
Pages : 896 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (943 Download)
Download PDF The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights Book by Full eBook and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2010-02-04 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier's daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king tales of adventure, love, riches and wonder - tales of mystical lands peopled with princes and hunchbacks, the Angel of Death and magical spirits, tales of the voyages of Sindbad, of Ali Baba's outwitting a band of forty thieves and of jinnis trapped in rings and in lamps. The sequence of stories will last 1,001 nights.
Author : Philip F. Kennedy
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2012-12-01
ISBN : 178074188X
Pages : 160 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (741 Download)
Download PDF Abu Nuwas Book by Philip F. Kennedy Full eBook and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to present the life, times and poetry of one of the greatest poets in the Arab tradition, Abu Nuwas. Author Philip Kennedy provides the narrative of Abu Nuwas's fascinating life, which was full of intrigue and debauched adventure, in parallel with the presentation of his greatest poems, across all genres, in easy and accessible translations, giving commentary where needed.
Author : Buckland,
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2013-09-05
ISBN : 1136756566
Pages : 258 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (756 Download)
Download PDF Tales Arab Tribes Book by Buckland, Full eBook and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Marva Dasef
Publisher : CreateSpace
Release Date : 2014-09-26
ISBN : 9781502521811
Pages : 190 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (52 Download)
Download PDF The Tales of Abu Nuwas Book by Marva Dasef Full eBook and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-09-26 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abu Nuwas sits in the bazaar on his threadbare rug; a cup and sign proclaim him a teller of tales. For one small coin, he bids passers by to listen. A poor girl, Najda, sells spices from a tray. Would he, she asks, trade a tale for a packet of spice? Abu Nuwas agrees and begins the epic adventures of a girl and her genie. As did Scheherazade before him, Abu leaves Najda hanging in the middle of each yarn to keep her coming back. Between stories, he questions the girl about her life. He discovers that she has been promised in marriage to an old man whom she hates, but she must wed him to save her sick mother. The rich bridegroom will pay for the doctors the mother needs. Meanwhile, Najda sells spices in the market to earn enough money to keep her mother alive. While relating the fantastical accounts, the old man grows to admire the spice girl, and vows to find a way to help her. Listening to the stories of evil genies, demons, flying horses, dragons, viziers, princes, pirates, and nomadic raiders, young Najda finds her salvation with the help of Abu Nuwas, the TELLER OF TALES.
Author : Nur Sutan Iskandar
Publisher :
Release Date : 1997
ISBN :
Pages : 127 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( Download)
Download PDF Abu Nawas Book by Nur Sutan Iskandar Full eBook and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Graham Seal
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Release Date : 2016-03-14
ISBN : 1440838615
Pages : 411 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (838 Download)
Download PDF Folk Heroes and Heroines around the World, 2nd Edition Book by Graham Seal Full eBook and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2016-03-14 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive collection of folk hero tales builds on the success of the first edition by providing readers with expanded contextual information on story characters from the Americas to Zanzibar. • Supplies entries on folk tale characters worldwide that identify related heroes and heroines and provide additional contextual information • Features a geographical organization that enables readers to research a specific region's folk characters • Provides an alphabetical index as well as an index of heroic character types to facilitate cross-cultural and historical comparisons • Includes sidebars with passages from the folk tales, popular culture, and other items of interest
Author : Jalal Uddin Khan
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2015-02-05
ISBN : 1443875163
Pages : 495 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (875 Download)
Download PDF Readings in Oriental Literature Book by Jalal Uddin Khan Full eBook and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-05 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readings in Oriental Literature: Arabian, Indian, and Islamic is an up-to-date elucidation of some diverse and discrete, yet common and classic, subjects and authors, and the distinctive oriental elements present in them. The book, composed of fourteen essays, includes ancient Arabian poetry; the Arabian Nights; the Arabian desert; the Arabian influence on Melville; Shelley’s Orientalia; Coleridge’s Kubla Khan; the influence of English Romantics on the Bengali Tagore; Bangladesh’s national anthem, and her exiled daughter Taslima Nasreen; the Victorian reaction to British India; religious diversity and Islam in the West; the Muslim East in English literature; and reading literature from an Islamic point of view. Marked by an originality of approach and a freshness and simplicity, the book takes note of contemporary theoretical, interdisciplinary and cultural discourse drawn from literature, history, politics and religion as necessary. However, it is far from being unnecessarily weighed down by the loaded clichés, oft-repeated jargon and overused euphemisms of modern literary or critical theory. The result is, regardless of its specialized treatment of otherwise commonplace or well-known texts or topics, that the overall discussion is as lucid, introductory and expository as it is deep and scholarly, making the book accessible and understandable to non-specialist readers, in addition to specialist researchers and academics.
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Release Date : 1881
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Download PDF Appletons' Journal Book by Full eBook and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Brill Archive
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Pages : 522 pages
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Download PDF The Art of Story - Tellingh Book by Full eBook and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hasan M. El-Shamy
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2010-03-15
ISBN : 0226206238
Pages : 406 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (26 Download)
Download PDF Folktales of Egypt Book by Hasan M. El-Shamy Full eBook and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Hasan M. El-Shamy has gathered the first authentic new collection of modern Egyptian folk narratives to appear in nearly a century. El-Shamy's English translations of these orally presented stories not only preserve their spirit, but give Middle Eastern lore the scholarly attention it has long deserved. "This collection of seventy recently collected Egyptian tales is a major contribution to African studies and to international distribution studies of folktales. In the face of the recent anthropological trend to use folkloric materials for extra-folkloric purposes, the preeminence of the text must be asserted once more, and these are obviously authentic, straightforwardly translated, fully documented as to date of collection and social category of informant, and for all that . . . readable."—Daniel J. Crowley, Research in African Literatures "Western knowledge of virtually all facets of contemporary Egyptian culture, much less the roots of that culture, is woefully inadequate. By providing an interesting, varied, and readable collection of Egyptian folktales and offering clear and sensible accounts of their background and meaning, this book renders a valuable service indeed."—Kenneth J. Perkins, International Journal of Oral History
