Isbn: 9781474455824 - the city in arabic literature: classical and modern perspectives (5 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The theme and motif of the city has had an enduring presence in the Arabic-Islamic tradition, from the classical and post-classical literary corpus to modern and post-colonial Arabic poetry and prose. Cities such as Mecca, Baghdad, Cairo, Damascus, Beirut, Qayrawan, Marrakesh and Cordoba have served as virtual (battle)grounds for some of the Arab world's most complex intellectual, sociocultural, and political issues. The Arab city has been transformed from a mere physical structure and textual space into an (auto)biographical, novelistic, and poetic arena-often troubled and contested-for debating the encounter, competition and conflict between the rural and the urban, the traditional and the modern, the meditative and the satiric, the individual and the communal, and the Self and Other(s). …

Zustand: New. This edited volume addresses the ways in which the city has been explored in works of literature by classical and modern Arab authors from different theosophical and ideological backgrounds.&Uumlber den AutorNizar F. Hermes is .