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| Document Type: | Book |
| Title: | Humanism, culture, and language in the Near East : studies in honor of Georg Krotkoff / edited by Asma Afsaruddin and A.H. Mathias Zahniser. |
| Author: | Afsaruddin, Asma, 1958((edt)) |
| Added Author: | Zahniser, A.H. Mathias, 1938- (edt) |
| Publisher: | Winina Lake, IN. : Eisenbrauns, 1997. |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | (c) 1997 Eisenbrauns |
| Contents: | Inquiry into the origins of humanism / George Makdisi -- Humanism and the language sciences in medieval Islam / Michael G. Carter -- Cosmic numbers: the symbolic design of Nizami's Haft Paykar / Julie Scott Meisami -- Playing with the sacred: religious intertext in Adab discourse / Fedwa Malti-Douglas -- From revolt to resignation: the life of Shaykh Muhsin Sharara -- Sura as guidance and exhortation: the composition of Surat al-Nisa' / A.H. Mathias Zahniser -- The Hijab: how a curtain became an institution and a cultural symbol / Barbara Freyer Stowasser -- The development of fictional genres: the novel and short story in Arabic / Roger Allen -- An Arabic poem in an Israeli controversy: Mahmud Darwish's "Passing words" / Issa J. Boullata -- Bi-l'Arabi al-fasih: an Egyptian play looks at contemporary Arab society / Asma Afsaruddin -- Learning Arabic: a lifetime commitment / Carolyn Killean -- The alchemy of sound: medieval Arabic phonosymbolism / Karin C. Ryding -- Al-Khalil's legacy / Karl Stowasser -- The e |
| Descriptors: | Belles-lettres Novel Short story |
| Location: | Oriental Inst., Oxford. OIL PJ6024 KRO |
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