What ʿĪsā ibn Hishām Told Us
New York University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4798-1388-9 (ISBN)
Bridging classical genres and the emerging tradition of modern Arabic fiction, What ʿĪsā ibn Hishām Told Us is divided into two parts, the second of which was only added to the text with the fourth edition of 1927. Sarcastic in tone and critical in outlook, the book relates the excursions of its narrator ʿĪsā ibn Hishām
and his companion, the Pasha, through a rapidly Westernized Cairo at the height of British occupation, providing vivid commentary of a society negotiating—however imperfectly—the clash of imported cultural values and traditional norms of conduct, law, and education. The “Second Journey” takes the narrator to Paris to visit the Exposition Universelle of 1900, where al-Muwayliḥī casts the same relentlessly critical eye on European society, modernity, and the role of Western imperialism as it ripples across the globe.
Paving the way for the modern Arabic novel, What ʿĪsā ibn Hishām Told Us is invaluable both for its sociological insight into colonial Egypt and its pioneering role in Arabic literary history.
A bilingual Arabic-English edition.
Muhammad al-Muwaylihi (Author) Muḥammad al-Muwayliḥī (1274-1348/1858-1930) was an Egyptian writer and political journalist, a career that he shared with his prominent father, Ibrāhīm al-Muwayliḥī, with whom he also published the reputable and incisive newspaper Miṣbāḥ al-Sharq (Light of the East). Other notable works include Critique of Shawqī’s Collected Poems and Cure for the Soul. Roger Allen (Edited and Translated by) Roger Allen retired in 2011 from his position as the Sascha Jane Patterson Harvie Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he served for forty-three years as Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature. He is the author and translator of numerous publications on Arabic literature, modern fiction and drama, and language pedagogy.
Table of Contents Mi?ba? al-sharq21, September 8, 18982 Mi?ba? al-sharq23, September 22, 189810 Mi?ba? al-sharq24, September 29, 189820 Mi?ba? al-sharq30, November 10, 189826 Mi?ba? al-sharq31, November 17, 189834 Mi?ba? al-sharq32, November 24, 189844 Mi?ba? al-sharq34, December 8, 189858 Mi?ba? al-sharq35, December 15 189878 Mi?ba? al-sharq39, January 12, 189996 Mi?ba? al-sharq40, January 19, 1899118 Mi?ba? al-sharq41, January 26, 1899132 Mi?ba? al-sharq42, February 2, 1899142 Mi?ba? al-sharq43, February 9, 1899154 Mi?ba? al-sharq44, February 16, 1899170 Mi?ba? al-sharq48, March 23, 1899192 Mi?ba? al-sharq49, March 30, 1899208 Mi?ba? al-sharq50, April 6, 1899220 Mi?ba? al-sharq54, May 11, 1899234 Mi?ba? al-sharq55, May 18, 1899250 Mi?ba? al-sharq57, June 1, 1899268 Mi?ba? al-sharq58, June 8, 1899294
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 3.7.2015 |
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Reihe/Serie | Library of Arabic Literature |
Übersetzer | Roger Allen |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 839 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Anthologien |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4798-1388-5 / 1479813885 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4798-1388-9 / 9781479813889 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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