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Other Arab post-war poetesses include Zubayda Bashīr (Tunis, b. 1938); Ghada al-Samman (Syria, b. 1942), known not only for poetry, but also for short stories and novels, Su'ad al-Sabah (Kuwait, b.1942) and Hamda Khamis (Bahrain, b. 1946), who is regarded as Bahrain's first female free-verse poet. More recent Arabic literature has seen a ...
The other great character from Arabic literature, Sinbad, is from the Tales. The Thousand and One Nights is usually placed in the genre of Arabic epic literature along with several other works. They are usually, like the Tales, collections of short stories or episodes strung together into a long tale. The extant versions were mostly written ...
Despite the structural flaws of the novel (its unrestricted romanticism, its poor division of the focus on Zaynab and Hamid, and a letter by Hamid which is unashamedly Haykal's own recapitulation of all the events that have transpired thus far), the novel is hugely important as the beginning point of the era of the modern Egyptian novel, infused with vernacular language, local characters, and ...
In the mid-20th century, the scholar Nabia Abbott found a document with a few lines of an Arabic work with the title The Book of the Tale of a Thousand Nights, dating from the ninth century. This is the earliest known surviving fragment of the Nights . [ 35 ]
Al-Akhtal al-Taghlibî was one of the great panegyrists of the Umayyad period. He became famous for his satires and panegyrics in a period when poetry was an important political instrument. Al-Akhtal was introduced to Yazid I by Ka'b ibn Ju'ayl and became a close friend of the heir apparent to Caliph Mu'awiya I (r. 661–680). Yazid, when he ...
The series is heavily influenced by the 1984 book The Crusades Through Arab Eyes, by Amin Maalouf. The series starts with the Catholic church council in Clermont in France in 1095, under Pope Urban II, and continues to the fall of Acre , the last Crusader foothold in the east, in 1291, covering two centuries of bloody battles, massacres, and ...
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The Library of Arabic Literature's award-winning edition-translations include Leg Over Leg by Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, edited and translated by Humphrey Davies, which was shortlisted for the American Literary Translators Association's 2016 National Translation Award [4] and longlisted for the 2014 Best Translated Book Award, organized by Open Letter; [5] Virtues of the Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal by ...