Book Series
Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures
New & Published Titles:
Islamic Culture Through Jewish Eyes
Al-Andalus from the tenth to twelfth century
Islamic Culture Through Jewish Eyes analyzes the attitude towards Muslims, Islam, and Islamic culture as presented in sources written by Jewish authors in the Iberian…
read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-43732-5 (Routledge)
Literary Modernity Between the Middle East and Europe
Textual Transactions in 19th Century Arabic, English and Persian Literatures
Providing a broad ranging and unique comparative study of the development of English, Persian and Arabic literature, this book looks at their interrelations with specific…
read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-42565-0 (Routledge)
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Popular Culture and Nationalism in Lebanon
The Fairouz and Rahbani Nation
Based on an award-winning thesis, this volume is a pioneering study of musical theatre and popular culture and its relation to the production of identity…
read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-77273-0 (Routledge)
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Contemporary Arab Fiction
Innovation from Rama to Yalu
This book introduces Western readers to some of the most significant novels written in Arabic since 1979. Despite their contribution to the development of contemporary…
read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-41456-2 (Routledge)
Arab Culture and the Novel
Genre, Identity and Agency in Egyptian Fiction
This book explores the complex relationship between the novel and identity in modern Arab culture against a backdrop of contemporary Egypt. It uses the example…
read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-77260-0 (Routledge)
Medieval Andalusian Courtly Culture in the Mediterranean
Hadîth Bayâd wa Riyâd
Medieval Andalusian Courtly Culture discusses the unicum manuscript of the Hadîth Bayâd wa Riyâd, the only illustrated manuscript known to have survived for more than…
read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-32244-7 (Routledge)
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The Thousand and One Nights
Space, Travel and Transformation
This volume discusses The Thousand and One Nights' themes of space and travel showing how they are used not only as a setting in which…
read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-40039-8 (Routledge)
Literature, Journalism and the Avant-Garde
Intersection in Egypt
The author explores the role of journalism in Egypt in effecting and promoting the development of modern Arabic literature from its inception in the mid-nineteenth…
read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-38561-9 (Routledge)
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The Oral and the Written in Early Islam
Made up of a number of seminal articles that are translated for the first time in English, this prestigious book from Gregor Schoeler gives a…
read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-39495-6 (Routledge)
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Nationalism, Islam and World Literature
Sites of Confluence in the Writings of Mahmud Al-Mas’adi
The writer and politician Mahmud al-Mis’adi is a figure of prime importance in the development of North African literature and cultural politics since the last…
read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-39644-8 (Routledge)
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Series Details:
Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures is a monograph series devoted to aspects of the literatures of the Near and Middle East and North Africa both modern and pre-modern. It is hoped that the provision of such a forum will lead to a greater emphasis on the comparative study of the literatures of this area, although studies devoted to one literary or linguistic region are warmly encouraged. It is the editors' objective to foster the comparative and multi-disciplinary investigation of the written and oral literary products of this area.
Forthcoming Titles:
Remembering Cosmopolitan Egypt: Literature, Culture, and Empire
By Deborah Starr
To be published March 26th 2009
