Tag: Arabic

Arabic Glitch Technoculture, Data Bodies, and Archives


Free Download Laila Shereen Sakr, "Arabic Glitch: Technoculture, Data Bodies, and Archives"
English | ISBN: 1503630994 | 2023 | 194 pages | PDF | 14 MB
Arabic Glitch explores an alternative origin story of twenty-first century technological innovation in digital politics―one centered on the Middle East and the 2011 Arab uprisings. Developed from an archive of social media data collected over the decades following the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, this book interrogates how the logic of programming technology influences and shapes social movements.

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On Fiction and Adab in Medieval Arabic Literature


Free Download Philip F Kennedy, "On Fiction and Adab in Medieval Arabic Literature"
English | 2005 | pages: 349 | ISBN: 3447051825 | PDF | 54,6 mb
The authors of this volume are some of the principal scholars of the field of Medieval Arabic literature and include Stefan Leder, Julia Bray, James Montgomery, Michael Cooperson, Daniel Beaumont and Dwight Reynolds. The book is a natural complement to Stefan Leder’s Story-Telling in the Framework of Non-Fictional Arabic Literature*, and furthers our understanding of some of the issues dealt with in the earlier tome. It deals chiefly, and variously, with the rhetoric, semantics, epistemology and humanistic mythology of narrative in the canon of Adab (medieval Arabic Belles Lettres) and related narrative literatures. What is fiction (or fictional)? and What is Adab? are essentially hanging questions that shape or affect the essays in various ways; literatures dealt with include: the Iqd al-Farid of the Andalusian humanistic writer Ibn Abd Rabbih; the Arabian Nights; the pre-Islamic Battles Days of the Arabs (Ayyam al-Arab); manuals of dream interpretation; historiography; stories of the signs of Muhammad’s prophetic vocation; early Islamic travel accounts; and hagiographical writing.

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Contemporary Arabic Literature Heritage and Innovation


Free Download Reuven Snir, "Contemporary Arabic Literature: Heritage and Innovation"
English | ISBN: 1399503251 | 2023 | 400 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Volume I examines the ways in which contemporary Arab authors communicate with two major sources of inspiration: the first, is the rich Arabic literary heritage whether it has been embodied in texts or concrete experiences, real or imaginary. The second are other cultures and literatures which have become sources for direct or indirect loans for Arabic literature. Both sources are essential for our understanding of the nature of contemporary Arabic literary works. The relationship between modern and medieval Arabic literature is indispensable; moreover, the literariness of any Arabic literary text cannot be isolated from the history of Arabic literature. Also, the role and function of Arabic literature, the nature of its literary criticism and scholarship, the relations between religious, political, and other activities within Arab culture and its literary production―all may be modelled in Arab culture in relation to other culture or cultures.

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