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Anthology of Arabic Literature, Culture, and Thought from Pre-Islamic Times to the Present - Frangieh, Bassam K. - Yale University Press
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Sep 20, 2004
600 p., 8 x 10
ISBN: 9780300104936
ISBN-10: 0300104936
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Hardcover with Audio CD: $68.00 tx
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Anthology of Arabic Literature, Culture, and Thought from Pre-Islamic Times to the Present
Read the Table of Contents in PDF (5 pages)
Read the Preface and Introduction in PDF (6 pages)
Read Lesson One in PDF (36 pages)
Listen to poems from Lesson One in MP3 format:
Nizar Qabbani: Arabian Love Poems (with introduction)
Mahmoud Darwish: To My Mother and Other Poems
Muhammed al-Maghut: Sadness in the Moonlight
Badr Shakir al-Sayyab: Song of Rain
'Abdul Wahab al-Bayati: The Gypsy Symphony
This book—the first comprehensive reader of Arabic literature from pre-Islamic times to the present—is an essential work for advanced students of the Arabic language. Presenting seventy works by seventy authors, it includes:
• pre-Islamic poetry and prose;
• selections from the Qur’an;
• the Prophet Muhammad’s last sermon;
• the powerful writing of Ali Ibn Abi Talib, the fourth Islamic Caliph;
• writings from the “Golden Age of the Arabs” (750-1258 A.D.) in philosophy, mysticism, prose, and poetry;
• works from the neoclassical, modernist, and metaphorical schools;
• literature of the Arabs in Andalus, Spain;
• discussions of cultural, literary, critical, and political movements of the present day;
• vocabulary lists, a list of idioms and notes, a set of questions about the text, and two glossaries.
This book not only introduces students to the entire sweep of Arabic intellectual, political, and cultural thought but also gives examples of how this thought is expressed, offering important insight into the Arab mind.
BASSAM K. FRANGIEH is senior lecturer in the department of Near East languages and civilizations at Yale University.
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