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The instance that marked the shift in Arabic literature towards modern Arabic literature can be attributed to the contact between Arab world and the West during the 19th and early 20th century. This contact resulted in the gradual replacement of Classical Arabic forms with Western ones.
Arabic literature (Arabic: الأدب العربي / ALA-LC: al-Adab al-‘Arabī) is the writing, both as prose and poetry, produced by writers in the Arabic language.The Arabic word used for literature is Adab, which comes from a meaning of etiquette, and which implies politeness, culture and enrichment.
The Nights also had an influence on modern Japanese literature. George Fyler Townsend's revised edition of the Arabian Nights was the first "European" literary work to be translated into the Japanese language during the Meiji era, by Nagamine Hideki in 1875.
Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) is the literary standard across the Middle East, North Africa and Horn of Africa, and is one of the six official languages of the United Nations. Most printed material in the Arab League—including most books, newspapers, magazines, official documents, and reading primers for small children—is written in MSA.
Mejcher-Atassi's research focuses on modern Arabic literature in a global perspective and closely intersects with cultural and intellectual history. Interdisciplinary in scope, it engages with memory studies, life writing/(auto)biography, literature archives and writers’ libraries, gender studies, global modernism, interrelations of word and image, book culture/art, and aesthetics and politics.
Al-Madrasa al-Ḥadītha (Arabic: المدرسة الحديثة, lit. 'The Modern School' or 'The New School') was a modernist movement in Arabic literature that began in 1917 in Egypt. [1] The movement is associated with the development of the short story in the earlier periods of modern Arabic literature. [2]
A groundbreaking work of decolonial theory within modern Arabic literature and thought, Sheehi proposes that the concept of cultural "failure" is inherent to the ways modern Arab intellectuals critically reorganized and redefined Arab subjectivity during modernity. Examining a host of varying sources including Arab fiction and commentary from ...
Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature. Vol. 2. London; New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-18572-6. Moreh, S. (1976). Modern Arabic Poetry 1800–1970: The Development of its Forms and Themes under the Influence of Western Literature. Studies in Arabic Literature, 5. Leiden: E. J. Brill. ISBN 90-04-04795-6