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The Complete Works of Kahlil Gibran

All poems and short stories

by Kahlil Gibran ...

Series series Global Classics
Kahlil Gibran is one of the most popular poets of all time. His words have the power to move emotions, inspire creativity, and transform lives. He produced some of the world’s most remarkable poems and philosophical essays throughout his almost thirty-year career. This enriching collection of his works includes more than 150 of his stories, prose poems, verse, parables, and autobiographical essays ... Read more

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Kahlil Gibran is one of the most popular poets of all time. His words have the power to move emotions, inspire creativity, and transform lives. He produced some of the world’s most remarkable poems and philosophical essays throughout his almost thirty-year career. This enriching collection of his works includes more than 150 of his stories, prose poems, verse, parables, and autobiographical essays
... Read more
Gilgamesh

A New Translation of the Ancient Epic

by Sophus Helle ...

A poem for the ages, freshly and accessibly translated by an international rising star, bringing together scholarly precision and poetic graceGilgamesh is a Babylonian epic from three thousand years ago, which tells of King Gilgamesh’s deep love for the wild man Enkidu and his pursuit of immortality when Enkidu dies. It is a story about love between men, loss and grief, the confrontation with ... Read more

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A poem for the ages, freshly and accessibly translated by an international rising star, bringing together scholarly precision and poetic graceGilgamesh is a Babylonian epic from three thousand years ago, which tells of King Gilgamesh’s deep love for the wild man Enkidu and his pursuit of immortality when Enkidu dies. It is a story about love between men, loss and grief, the confrontation with
... Read more
The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights

Volume 2

Series Book 2 - The Arabian Nights
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 ... Read more

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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
... Read more
Stranger Magic

Charmed States and the Arabian Nights

by Marina Warner ...

Our foremost theorist of myth, fairytales, and folktales explores the magical realm of the imagination where carpets fly, objects speak, dreams reveal hidden truths, and genies grant prophetic wishes. Stranger Magic examines the wondrous tales of the Arabian Nights, their profound impact on the West, and the progressive exoticization of magic since the eighteenth century, when the first European ... Read more

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Our foremost theorist of myth, fairytales, and folktales explores the magical realm of the imagination where carpets fly, objects speak, dreams reveal hidden truths, and genies grant prophetic wishes. Stranger Magic examines the wondrous tales of the Arabian Nights, their profound impact on the West, and the progressive exoticization of magic since the eighteenth century, when the first European
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Istanbul (Deluxe Edition)

Memories and the City

by Orhan Pamuk ...

Translated by Maureen Freely ...

From the Nobel Prize-winning author of My Name Is Red and Snow, a large-format, deluxe, collectible edition of his beloved memoir about life in Istanbul, with more than 200 added illustrations and a new introduction.Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul and still lives in the family apartment building where his mother first held him in her arms. His portrait of his city is thus also a self-portrait, ... Read more

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From the Nobel Prize-winning author of My Name Is Red and Snow, a large-format, deluxe, collectible edition of his beloved memoir about life in Istanbul, with more than 200 added illustrations and a new introduction.Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul and still lives in the family apartment building where his mother first held him in her arms. His portrait of his city is thus also a self-portrait,
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Brown Album

Essays on Exile and Identity

by Porochista Khakpour ...

From the much-acclaimed novelist and essayist, a beautifully rendered, poignant collection of personal essays, chronicling immigrant and Iranian-American life in our contemporary moment.Novelist Porochista Khakpour's family moved to Los Angeles after fleeing the Iranian Revolution, giving up their successes only to be greeted by an alienating culture. Growing up as an immigrant in America means ... Read more

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From the much-acclaimed novelist and essayist, a beautifully rendered, poignant collection of personal essays, chronicling immigrant and Iranian-American life in our contemporary moment.Novelist Porochista Khakpour's family moved to Los Angeles after fleeing the Iranian Revolution, giving up their successes only to be greeted by an alienating culture. Growing up as an immigrant in America means
... Read more
Ancient Egypt: Pyramids and Pharaohs

Egyptian Books for Kids

by Baby Professor ...

Series series Children's Ancient History Books
Bring ancient Egypt back to life with this fun educational book! What makes this book unique is that it tackles the subject of pharaohs and pyramids in a highly interactive way. There are only a handful of texts included so there’s more space for pictures, and the imagination. Go ahead and secure a copy of this learning resource today! ... Read more

$4.49 USD

Bring ancient Egypt back to life with this fun educational book! What makes this book unique is that it tackles the subject of pharaohs and pyramids in a highly interactive way. There are only a handful of texts included so there’s more space for pictures, and the imagination. Go ahead and secure a copy of this learning resource today!
... Read more
City of Beginnings

Poetic Modernism in Beirut

by Robyn Creswell ...

Series series Translation/Transnation
How poetic modernism shaped Arabic intellectual debates in the twentieth century and beyondCity of Beginnings is an exploration of modernism in Arabic poetry, a movement that emerged in Beirut during the 1950s and became the most influential and controversial Arabic literary development of the twentieth century. Robyn Creswell introduces English-language readers to a poetic movement that will be ... Read more

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How poetic modernism shaped Arabic intellectual debates in the twentieth century and beyondCity of Beginnings is an exploration of modernism in Arabic poetry, a movement that emerged in Beirut during the 1950s and became the most influential and controversial Arabic literary development of the twentieth century. Robyn Creswell introduces English-language readers to a poetic movement that will be
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Fārs-nāma of Ibnu l-Balkhī

by Reynold A. Nicholson, Guy Le Strange ...

Series series Gibb Memorial Trust Persian Studies
This description of the province of Fars, was written around the beginning of the 12th century A.D. The author cites his qualifications for it "I was well acquainted with the present condition of the people of Fars ... being well versed also in the events of their history and exactly acquainted with the story of their kings and rulers." This is a reprint of the edition of 1952. ... Read more

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This description of the province of Fars, was written around the beginning of the 12th century A.D. The author cites his qualifications for it "I was well acquainted with the present condition of the people of Fars ... being well versed also in the events of their history and exactly acquainted with the story of their kings and rulers." This is a reprint of the edition of 1952.
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Sadi's Scroll of Wisdom

by Sadi, Arthur N. Wollaston ...

Sadi's Scroll of Wisdomby Sadi And Tr. by Arthur N. WollastonThe Persian poet Sadi, best known for his poetic collections the Bustan and Gulistan, also wrote this work, the Pand Namah, or Scroll of Wisdom. This is a small collection of poems on moral themes. Translated by Arthur N. Wollaston, this entry in the Wisdom of the East series is one of the best.SHAIKH MUSLIH-UD-DIN SADI, the celebrated ... Read more

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Sadi's Scroll of Wisdomby Sadi And Tr. by Arthur N. WollastonThe Persian poet Sadi, best known for his poetic collections the Bustan and Gulistan, also wrote this work, the Pand Namah, or Scroll of Wisdom. This is a small collection of poems on moral themes. Translated by Arthur N. Wollaston, this entry in the Wisdom of the East series is one of the best.SHAIKH MUSLIH-UD-DIN SADI, the celebrated
... Read more
Prophet Muhammad in French and English Literature

1650 to the Present

by Ahmad Gunny ...

"Gunny, a pioneer in the study of French and European literary and theological representations of Islam in the modern period, offers a survey of over 350 years, which is both a cross cultural history and a discussion of the intellectual changes in the representation of the Prophet's life based on the examination of original published and unpublished manuscripts." -Islamic Horizons"Ahmad Gunny has ... Read more

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"Gunny, a pioneer in the study of French and European literary and theological representations of Islam in the modern period, offers a survey of over 350 years, which is both a cross cultural history and a discussion of the intellectual changes in the representation of the Prophet's life based on the examination of original published and unpublished manuscripts." -Islamic Horizons"Ahmad Gunny has
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Bialik

by David Aberbach ...

Series Book 1 - Jewish Thinkers
During his lifetime, Chaim Nachman Bialik was hailed and the poet larueate of Jewish nationalism and was regarded as one of the major Jewish cultural influences of his age. He was seen as the poet of hope and revival in an age which witnessed the Russian Pale of Settlement, pogroms, the Russian Revoltuion, the rise of Zionim and of Hebrew as a living language. David Aberbach explores the ... Read more

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During his lifetime, Chaim Nachman Bialik was hailed and the poet larueate of Jewish nationalism and was regarded as one of the major Jewish cultural influences of his age. He was seen as the poet of hope and revival in an age which witnessed the Russian Pale of Settlement, pogroms, the Russian Revoltuion, the rise of Zionim and of Hebrew as a living language. David Aberbach explores the
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Contemporary Art, World Cinema, and Visual Culture

Essays by Hamid Dabashi

Edited by Hamid Keshmirshekan ...

"Contemporary Art, World Cinema, and Visual Culture: Essays by Hamid Dabashi" is a collection of writings by the acclaimed cultural critic and scholar. A thorough Introduction rigorously frames chapters and identifies in Dabashi’s writings a comprehensive approach, which forms the criteria for selecting the essays for the volume. The Introduction also teases out of these essays the overarching ... Read more

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"Contemporary Art, World Cinema, and Visual Culture: Essays by Hamid Dabashi" is a collection of writings by the acclaimed cultural critic and scholar. A thorough Introduction rigorously frames chapters and identifies in Dabashi’s writings a comprehensive approach, which forms the criteria for selecting the essays for the volume. The Introduction also teases out of these essays the overarching
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Bestsellers and masterpieces

The changing medieval canon

Edited by Heather Blurton, Dwight F. Reynolds ...

Series series Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
Bestsellers and masterpieces: The changing medieval canon addresses the strange fact that, in both European and Middle Eastern medieval studies, those texts that we now study and teach as the most canonical representations of their era were in fact not popular or even widely read in their day. On the other hand, those texts that were popular, as evidenced by the extant manuscript record, are ... Read more

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Bestsellers and masterpieces: The changing medieval canon addresses the strange fact that, in both European and Middle Eastern medieval studies, those texts that we now study and teach as the most canonical representations of their era were in fact not popular or even widely read in their day. On the other hand, those texts that were popular, as evidenced by the extant manuscript record, are
... Read more
امرؤ القيس

by Imdad, محمد سليم الجندي ...

[Arabic] يعد هذا الكتاب مرجعاً أدبياً هاماً يغوص في أعماق حياة وإبداع امرؤ القيس، أشهر شعراء العصر الجاهلي. يقدم المؤلف محمد سليم الجندي دراسة تحليلية دقيقة تشمل:سيرة الشاعر: بحث مفصل في اسمه، ونسبه، وحياته التي جمعت بين الملك واللهو وطلب الثأر.مكانته الأدبية: لماذا اعتبره النقاد "إمام الشعراء" وكيف أثر فيمن جاء بعده.تحليل شعري: دراسة لأغراض شعره، وصوره البلاغية، ومفرداته اللغوية.<li... ... Read more

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[Arabic] يعد هذا الكتاب مرجعاً أدبياً هاماً يغوص في أعماق حياة وإبداع امرؤ القيس، أشهر شعراء العصر الجاهلي. يقدم المؤلف محمد سليم الجندي دراسة تحليلية دقيقة تشمل:سيرة الشاعر: بحث مفصل في اسمه، ونسبه، وحياته التي جمعت بين الملك واللهو وطلب الثأر.مكانته الأدبية: لماذا اعتبره النقاد "إمام الشعراء" وكيف أثر فيمن جاء بعده.تحليل شعري: دراسة لأغراض شعره، وصوره البلاغية، ومفرداته اللغوية.<li...
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America in An Arab Mirror

Images of America in Arabic Travel Literature: An Anthology

by K. Abdel-Malek ...

Series series Social Sciences (R0)
This distinguished anthology presents for the first time in English travel essays by Arabic writers who have visited America in the second half of the century. The view of America which emerges from these accounts is at once fascinating and illuminating, but never monolithic. The writers hail from a variety of viewpoints, regions, and backgrounds, so their descriptions of America differently ... Read more

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This distinguished anthology presents for the first time in English travel essays by Arabic writers who have visited America in the second half of the century. The view of America which emerges from these accounts is at once fascinating and illuminating, but never monolithic. The writers hail from a variety of viewpoints, regions, and backgrounds, so their descriptions of America differently
... Read more
Between Reason and Revelation

Twin Wisdoms Reconciled

Edited by Eric Ormsby ...

Series series Ismaili Texts and Translations
I.B.Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili StudiesThis is the first English translation of the final philosophical work of the great eleventh-century Ismaili thinker, poet, and Fatimid emissary, N?sir-i Khusraw. Appointed from Cairo by command of the Fatimid Imam-caliph al-Mustansir to serve first as a d?'?, and then as the hujjat, for the entire region of Khur?s?n, he maintained his ... Read more

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I.B.Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili StudiesThis is the first English translation of the final philosophical work of the great eleventh-century Ismaili thinker, poet, and Fatimid emissary, N?sir-i Khusraw. Appointed from Cairo by command of the Fatimid Imam-caliph al-Mustansir to serve first as a d?'?, and then as the hujjat, for the entire region of Khur?s?n, he maintained his
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Raquel Dice (qualcosa di interamente inaspettato)

by Mois Benarroch ...

"Mois Benarroch è il più importante scrittore sefardita del Mediterraneo in Israele".Prof. Habiba Pdaya, supplemento letterario di Haaretz, sett. 2020.C'é qualcuno dietro di noi che ci dice che da qualche parte esiste un'altra persona nel mondo che vive una vita parallela alla nostra, che sente le stesse cose, che forse sta facendo le stesse cose in questo momento. Cosa accade, però, quando due ... Read more

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"Mois Benarroch è il più importante scrittore sefardita del Mediterraneo in Israele".Prof. Habiba Pdaya, supplemento letterario di Haaretz, sett. 2020.C'é qualcuno dietro di noi che ci dice che da qualche parte esiste un'altra persona nel mondo che vive una vita parallela alla nostra, che sente le stesse cose, che forse sta facendo le stesse cose in questo momento. Cosa accade, però, quando due
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Gender, Sex, and the City

Urdu Rekhti Poetry in India, 1780-1870

by R. Vanita ...

Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Explores the urban, cosmopolitan sensibilities of Urdu poetry written in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Lucknow. Ruth Vanita analyzes Rekhti, a type of Urdu poetry distinguished by a female speaker and a focus on women's lives, and shows how it becamea catalyst for the transformation of the ghazal. ... Read more

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Explores the urban, cosmopolitan sensibilities of Urdu poetry written in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Lucknow. Ruth Vanita analyzes Rekhti, a type of Urdu poetry distinguished by a female speaker and a focus on women's lives, and shows how it becamea catalyst for the transformation of the ghazal.
... Read more
La voz de la conseja, t.2 (Spanish Edition)

by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Concha Espina, Serafín Álvarez Quintero, Joaquín Álvarez Quintero, Antonio de Hoyos y Vinent, Bernardo Morales San Martín, Diego San José, Wenceslao Fernández-Flórez, J. Ortega Munilla, José Echegaray, Alvaro Retana, Gutiérrez Gamero, and Felipe Trigo ...

Sumérgete en la riqueza literaria de "La voz de la conseja, t.2", una antología que reúne a algunos de los escritores más destacados de la literatura española del siglo XX."La voz de la conseja, t.2" es una fascinante colección que presenta una variedad de relatos y escritos de autores emblemáticos como Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Concha Espina, y los hermanos Álvarez Quintero, entre otros. Este tomo ... Read more

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Sumérgete en la riqueza literaria de "La voz de la conseja, t.2", una antología que reúne a algunos de los escritores más destacados de la literatura española del siglo XX."La voz de la conseja, t.2" es una fascinante colección que presenta una variedad de relatos y escritos de autores emblemáticos como Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Concha Espina, y los hermanos Álvarez Quintero, entre otros. Este tomo
... Read more
Brothers Apart

Palestinian Citizens of Israel and the Arab World

by Maha Nassar ...

"Nassar brings to life the artistic prowess, rallying cries, and dashed dreams of the leading Palestinian litterateurs in Israel." —Shira Robinson, author of Citizen StrangersWhen the state of Israel was established in 1948, not all Palestinians became refugees: some stayed behind and were soon granted citizenship. Those who remained, however, were relegated to second-class status in this new ... Read more

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"Nassar brings to life the artistic prowess, rallying cries, and dashed dreams of the leading Palestinian litterateurs in Israel." —Shira Robinson, author of Citizen StrangersWhen the state of Israel was established in 1948, not all Palestinians became refugees: some stayed behind and were soon granted citizenship. Those who remained, however, were relegated to second-class status in this new
... Read more
Boys Abducted

The Homoerotics of Empire and Race in Early Modernity

by Abdulhamit Arvas ...

Series series Theory Q
In Boys Abducted, Abdulhamit Arvas explores the history of abducted boys in English and Ottoman literary and visual culture to examine the relationships between homoeroticism, race, and empire in the early modern period. The popular literary trope of the abducted beautiful boy—often eroticized as an exotic object of desire—intersects with the historical phenomenon of vulnerable youths who were ... Read more

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In Boys Abducted, Abdulhamit Arvas explores the history of abducted boys in English and Ottoman literary and visual culture to examine the relationships between homoeroticism, race, and empire in the early modern period. The popular literary trope of the abducted beautiful boy—often eroticized as an exotic object of desire—intersects with the historical phenomenon of vulnerable youths who were
... Read more
Aenmerkinge op de Missive van Parnas

by Anonymous ...

Ontdek de verborgen geheimen van de literaire wereld!Duik in de fascinerende wereld van 'Aenmerkinge op de Missive van Parnas', een meesterwerk dat de grenzen van de verbeelding tart. Dit anonieme werk neemt je mee op een reis door de tijd, waar de lijnen tussen fictie en werkelijkheid vervagen.Unieke thema’s zoals de zoektocht naar waarheid en de kracht van woorden worden op een ongeëvenaarde ... Read more

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Ontdek de verborgen geheimen van de literaire wereld!Duik in de fascinerende wereld van 'Aenmerkinge op de Missive van Parnas', een meesterwerk dat de grenzen van de verbeelding tart. Dit anonieme werk neemt je mee op een reis door de tijd, waar de lijnen tussen fictie en werkelijkheid vervagen.Unieke thema’s zoals de zoektocht naar waarheid en de kracht van woorden worden op een ongeëvenaarde
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Die dreizehn Bücher der deutschen Seele

by Wilhelm Schafer ...

Entdecken Sie die verborgenen Facetten der deutschen Seele in einem literarischen Meisterwerk!„Die dreizehn Bücher der deutschen Seele“ von Wilhelm Schafer ist eine faszinierende Reise durch die kulturellen und emotionalen Tiefen Deutschlands. Dieses Werk entfaltet sich wie ein Mosaik, das die Essenz der deutschen Identität in all ihren Facetten beleuchtet, ohne dabei zu viel zu verraten ... Read more

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Entdecken Sie die verborgenen Facetten der deutschen Seele in einem literarischen Meisterwerk!„Die dreizehn Bücher der deutschen Seele“ von Wilhelm Schafer ist eine faszinierende Reise durch die kulturellen und emotionalen Tiefen Deutschlands. Dieses Werk entfaltet sich wie ein Mosaik, das die Essenz der deutschen Identität in all ihren Facetten beleuchtet, ohne dabei zu viel zu verraten
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