Modern Persian Literature in Afghanistan

Anomalous Visions of History and Form

By Wali Ahmadi

With the unleashing of the "War on Terror" in the aftermath of 9/11, Afghanistan has become prominent in the news. However, we need to appreciate...

Published March 10th 2008 by Routledge.

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Sadeq Hedayat

His Work and his Wondrous World

Edited by Homa Katouzian

Featuring contributions from leading scholars of Iranian studies and / or comparative literature, this edited comprehensive and critical edited collection provides detailed scholarly analysis of Hedayat's life...

Published September 17th 2007 by Routledge.

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Literary Modernity Between the Middle East and Europe

Textual Transactions in 19th Century Arabic, English and Persian Literatures

By Kamran Rastegar

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...

Published September 11th 2007 by Routledge.

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Contemporary Arab Fiction

Innovation from Rama to Yalu

By Fabio Caiani

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...

Published August 22nd 2007 by Routledge.

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Arab Culture and the Novel

Genre, Identity and Agency in Egyptian Fiction

By Muhammad Siddiq

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 of...

Published June 7th 2007 by Routledge.

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Mediaeval Islamic Historiography and Political Legitimacy

Bal'ami's Tarikhnamah

By A.C.S. Peacock

The Tarikhnamah is a history of the world and the oldest surviving work of Persian prose. This book examines it as a political and cultural...

Published February 26th 2007 by Routledge.

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The Thousand and One Nights

Space, Travel and Transformation

By Richard van Leeuwen

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 the...

Published December 4th 2006 by Routledge.

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Intellectuals in the Modern Islamic World

Transmission, Transformation and Communication

Edited by Stephane A. Dudoignon, Komatsu Hisao, Kosugi Yasushi

Incorporating a rich series of case-studies covering a range of geographical areas, this collection of essays examines the history of modern intellectuals in the Islamic...

Published July 4th 2006 by Routledge.

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The Oral and the Written in Early Islam

By James E. Montgomery, Gregor Schoeler

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...

Published June 7th 2006 by Routledge.

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Nationalism, Islam and World Literature

Sites of Confluence in the Writings of Mahmud Al-Mas’adi

By Mohamed-Salah Omri

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...

Published May 4th 2006 by Routledge.

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