The City in Arabic Literature

Classical and Modern Perspectives

360 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The theme and motif of the city has had an enduring presence in the Arabic-Islamic tradition, from the classical and post-classical literary corpus to modern and post-colonial Arabic poetry and prose. Cities such as Mecca, Baghdad, Cairo, Damascus, Beirut, Qayrawan, Marrakesh and Cordoba have served as virtual (battle)grounds for some of the Arab world's most complex intellectual, sociocultural, and political issues. The Arab city has been transformed from a mere physical structure and textual space into an (auto)biographical, novelistic, and poetic arena-often troubled and contested-for debating the encounter, competition and conflict between the rural and the urban, the traditional and the modern, the meditative and the satiric, the individual and the communal, and the Self and Other(s).

• Themen: Philosophie und Religion Religion und Glaube Islam
• ISBN: 9781474455824
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 27.11.2019
• Größe: 231 x 155 mm
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Herausgegeben von: Nizar F Hermes, Gretchen Head