Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures

formerly Studies in Arabic Literature

Edited by Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych, Ross Brann and Franklin Lewis

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1571-5183
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€96.00$124.00
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BSME
Volume:
34
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Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004166806
Looking Back at al-Andalus
Alexander E. Elinson, City University of New York
Through an examination of a variety of literary genres composed in Arabic and Hebrew, this book examines the literary definition of al-Andalus by taking into account the role of memory, language, and literary convention in analyses of texts composed following cultural and political challenges to ...
€135.00$175.00
Series:
BSME
Volume:
33
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Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004168404
Like Joseph in Beauty
Mark S. Wagner, Louisiana State University
This book traces the evolution of an Arabic poetic form called “Humayni poetry.” The book addresses the connections between the Humayni poetry of Yemen and the sacred poetry of Jews from Yemen, a hitherto-neglected chapter in the history of Arabic and Jewish literatures.
€136.00$176.00
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BSME
Volume:
32
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Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004152595
Pens, Swords, and the Springs of Art
Nadia G. Yaqub
Offering an analysis of oral poetry dueling performed at traditional Palestinian weddings this book addresses poetry dueling as a performative and compositional device, and explores the complex linkages between this tradition and other genres of Arabic poetry.
€118.00$153.00
Series:
BSME
Volume:
31
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Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004138094
Essays on Nima Yushij
Edited by Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak and Kamran Talattof
Situating Nima's life firmly within the context of 20th century Iranian history this book contributes to an emerging trend in literary scholarship on Persian literature that views Persian poetry as a living and constantly evolving tradition rather than an icon of some fading glory.
€106.00$137.00
Series:
BSME
Volume:
30
Version: 
Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004132603
The Virgin and her Lover
Tomas Hägg and Bo Utas
This publication and discussion of the fragments of the Greek novel of Mētiokhos and Parthenopē and the Persian epic poem based on it, ʿUnṣurī’s Vāmiq and ʿAdhrā, adds a new work to the corpus of ancient novels and sheds new light on Persian epic poetry.
€116.00$150.00
Series:
BSME
Volume:
29
Version: 
Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004130302
The Poetics of Anti-Colonialism in the Arabic Qaṣīdah
Hussein N. Kadhim
This volume deals with the Arab literary response to European colonialism as articulated in the works of four leading twentieth-century poets: Aḥmad Shawqī, Maʿrūf al-Ruṣāfī, Badr Shākir al-Sayyāb and ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Bayātī.
€215.00$279.00
Series:
BSME
Volume:
28
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Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004130104
The Case of Rhyme versus Reason
Robert C. McKinney
This book examines the life and times and poetry of the extremely prolific and versatile ‘Abbāsid poet Ibn al-Rūmī (d. 283/896). Particular attention is devoted to tracing the influences in his distinctive poetic style and themes.
€158.00$205.00
Series:
BSME
Volume:
27
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Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004129429
Laylī and Majnūn
Ali Asghar Seyed-Gohrab
€89.00$115.00
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BSME
Volume:
26
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Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004125872
The Oral Background of Persian Epics
Kumiko Yamamoto
This book proposes a set of criteria for determining the extent to which oral tradition influences written Persian epics. The criteria are applied to Persian epics, the Shâh-nâme (c. 1000) and the Garshâsp-nâme (c. 1064-66).
€99.00$128.00
Series:
BSME
Volume:
25
Version: 
Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004129221
Description in Classical Arabic Poetry
Akiko Motoyoshi Sumi
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