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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Arabic Literature"”.
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A Study of Factors Influencing Readers' Comprehension of Cultural Content Embedded in Arabic Literature
… specific factors (variables) on the reading of literature as a means of communicating cultural insights in the context of foreign language programs of instruction.
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The Impact of The Absurd on Modern Arabic Literature: A Study of the Influence of Camus, Ionesco and Beckett (Theater, Ikhlasi, Hakim, Idris, Mahfuz)
One of the most problematic issues in Arabic literature has been the opposition between tajd(')id or innovation, and the two principles which have traditionally governed Arabic literature: turath, or heritage, and asala, roots. Tajd(')id has gradually asserted its own as Arabic literature has …
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The Literary Boom of the Jamā‘at al Fayḍa Tijaniyya in 20th Century Northern Nigeria, and additions to John O. Hunwick's The Arabic Literature of Africa, Vol. 2
… analyse the impact of the fayḍa Tijaniyya on the Arabic literature of Africa, and to extract trends in the scholarly Tijaniyya community of the twentieth century. The research has further led to the discovery of works that have not been recorded in John Hunwick's Arabic Literature of Africa, …
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Two Plays by the Islamic Dramatist, Ali Ahmad Bakathir Translated Into English With Critical Commentary
… Bakathir contributed influentially to modern Arabic literature in several literary genres; drama, poetry, and the novel. In addition to his great sum of poetry, he wrote more than sixty plays, six novels, many one-act plays and short stories. Bakathir's study of English literature, and of …
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Women's Voices in Arabic, French, and English Salons: Literary Impacts
… study presents the voices of women in classical Arabic literature and the literature of eighteenth century France and England. It compares women as writers and sponsors of salons during two different periods of world history.
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Abd al-Rahman Al-Kawakibi's Tabai` al-Istibdad wa Masari` al-Isti`bad (The Characteristics of Despotism and The Demises of Enslavement): A Translation and Introduction
<p>Modern Arabic literature was molded by the various literary and philosophical schools that emerged in the Arab Nahda (Renaissance). Arab Nahda was led by intellectuals educated in both Arab and European traditions. Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi is one of the gigantic pioneers of Arab Nahda. He has …
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Factors in the spiritual preparation and motivation of Muslim armies
… seven central chapters, and a conclusion (an Arabic-English glossary is placed at the end of the study). The first chapter includes a general introduction which incorporates an explanation of the method to be followed in the study. It provides a review of the study's primary and secondary …
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The variations and the changes in the school librarians' perspectives of information literacy
… designed by the researcher who consulted a broad literature and methods in attempts to integrate different ideas from different territories. For example, she employed business methods such as Eat the Elephant strategy and SWOT analysis, training methods such as icebreaking and team working, Soft …
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The Edge of Glory: The ʿAbbāsid Turkic Guard in Third/Ninth-Century Praise Writing
This thesis assesses praise writing on the ʿAbbāsid Turkic guard across the third/ninth century, from the foundation of the guard to the semi-independent Ṭūlūnid dynasty. Chronicles and geographic writing from the third/ninth and fourth/tenth centuries are quick to cast the Turks as the ‘Other’, …
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Modern Arabic literary biography : a study of character portrayal in the works of Egyptian biographers of the first half of the twentieth century, with special reference to literary biography
… in Europe, it hardly progressed in Modem Arabic Literature. The only exception was seen in the writings by the pioneers of enlightenment in Egypt at the beginning of the twentieth century. This change of direction relied on borrowing European methodology in biographical writing. In chapter …
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Sudanese literature in English translation: an analytical study of the translation with a historical introduction to the literature
… to record, analyze, and assess modern Sudanese literature within its historical, cultural, and political context. It highlights the diversity and distinctiveness of that literature, the wide range of its themes, and the resilience and complex background of its major practitioners. A principal …
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Comparative Analysis of <i>Al-Ard</i> by ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Sharqawi and the Film by Youssef Chahine: Prison Literature and Collective Memory
… the beginning of the twentieth century, works of literature began to center the Egyptian <em>fallah- </em>or peasant- <em> </em>as a political subject, as well as the most authentic representation of national identity. Prior to that, the <em>fallah </em>was negatively depicted, constantly …
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A conversation analytic study of practices of affiliation and disaffiliation in Arabic in Aljazeera’s “The Opposite Direction”
… news interview program that broadcasts live in Arabic on Aljazeera. The show has been on the air since Aljazeera’s inception, in the late 1990s. The show hosts two guests with opposing political views, who are pitted against each other in a heated discussion as they represent and defend their …
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Umma and Identity in Early Islamic Persia
… Empire. These texts are written in Persian or Arabic or both. Some sources were originally in Arabic and later translated into Persian. The main Persian language local histories that I will address in this dissertation include the Tarikh-i Sistan, Tarikh-i Tabaristan, Tarikh-i Bukhara, Tarikh-i …
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Ghazal Poetry and the Marwanids: A study of Kuthayyir Azza
This dissertation offers a comprehensive study of the life and work of Kuthayyir ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, a love poet and panegyrist who died in AH 106 / 725 in his hometown of Medina, in the Hijaz. The dissertation reexamines the rise of monothematic love poetry in the pre- and early Islamic period, …