Author: Ibrahim Abu-LughodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Arab Rediscovery of the World. A Study in Cultural Encounters....
Author: Ibrahim Abu-LughodArab Rediscovery of Europe
Author: Joseph Bailey EdmondArab rediscovery of europe
Author: Ibrahim Abu-LughodCultural Encounters in the Arab World
Author: Tarik SabryPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857732161
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
In this groundbreaking book, Tarik Sabry is seeking out the terrain for best understanding the experience of being modern in transitional societies. He adopts a dynamic, ethnographically based approach to the meanings of 'modernness' in the Arab context and, within a relational framework, focuses on structures of thought, everydayness and self-referentiality to explore the process of building a bridge that rejoins the 'modern' in Arab thought with the 'modern' in Arab lived experience. In bringing together modernity as a philosophical category with the bridging spaces of Arab everyday life, Sabry is offering fresh methods of comprehending the question of what it means to be modern in the Arab world today.
The Book in the Islamic World
Author: George Nicholas AtiyehPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791424735
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
This book explores Muslims' conception of themselves as "the people of the book" and explains the multifaceted meanings of this concept. Published jointly with the Library of Congress, it is an illustrated history of the book and the written word in the Islamic world.
Arab Modernism as World Cinema
Author: Peter LimbrickPublisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520330560
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Arab Modernism as World Cinema explores the radically beautiful films of Moroccan filmmaker Moumen Smihi, demonstrating the importance of Moroccan and Arab film cultures in histories of world cinema. Addressing the legacy of the Nahda or “Arab Renaissance” of the nineteenth and early twentieth century—when Arab writers and artists reenergized Arab culture by engaging with other languages and societies—Peter Limbrick argues that Smihi’s films take up the spirit of the Nahda for a new age. Examining Smihi’s oeuvre, which enacts an exchange of images and ideas between Arab and non-Arab cultures, Limbrick rethinks the relation of Arab cinema to modernism and further engages debates about the use of modernist forms by filmmakers in the Global South. This original study offers new routes for thinking about world cinema and modernism in the Middle East and North Africa, and about Arab cinema in the world.
Arab Cinema Travels
Author: Kay DickinsonPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1838714448
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Exploring the impact of travel on Arab cinema, Kay Dickinson reveals how the cinemas of Syria, Palestine and Dubai have been shaped by the history and politics of international circulation. This compelling book offers fresh insights into film, mobility and the Middle East.
Beyond Modernity
Author: Mohammed MoussaPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538150956
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
A contest is afoot in Muslim discourses around the world in the twenty-first century. Prevalent norms and acts are subject to competing motivations, trends and forces. The image of a monolithic Islam is thus wholly inadequate to identify and interpret the different expressions of Muslim thought and practice in their specific yet connected contexts. This book proposes competing and persuasive perspectives for interpreting what Muslims say, do and think in collective settings or in the light of common frames of reference. The chapters contained in this book reflect a diversity of disciplines and interests. Nonetheless, a common thread of the preoccupation with meanings in context unites the contributors and the approaches to their chosen examples. Islam is not a discrete category that is taken for granted. Instead, the cacophony of voices in the Muslim world situated in specific contexts, variously national, regional or global, is allowed to inform each chapter. Here one encounters contemporary Muslims participating in discourses with a contested character that create opportunities to augment or question orthodox dictates or transmit or alter existing beliefs and practices. What emerges are nuanced portraits of contemporary Muslim thought and practice that reveal a far from monolithic Islam to which all things Islamic can be reduced.
Literary Modernity Between the Middle East and Europe
Author: Kamran RastegarPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134094264
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
This book is a comparative study of the development of English, Persian and Arabic literature and their interrelations with specific reference to modernity, nationalism and social value.
A Bibliography for After Jews and Arabs
Author: Ammiel AlcalayPublisher: punctum books
ISBN: 1953035353
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
"A Bibliography for After Jews and Arabs presents the original bibliography, as completed in 1992, without changes, as a glimpse into the historical record of a unique scholarly, political, poetic, and cultural journey. The bibliography itself had roots in research begun in the late 1970s and demonstrates a very wide arc. In addition to the bibliography, we include three accompanying texts here. In "Behind the Scenes: Before After Jews and Arabs," Alcalay takes us behind the closed doors of the academic process, reprinting the original reader reports and his detailed rebuttals, and in "A Bibliography for After Jews and Arabs: A Brief Introduction," Alcalay contextualizes his own path to the work he undertook, in methodological, historical, and political terms. Also included is "A Poetics of Bibliography""--Publisher's description