The Arab Renaissance
Subtitle: a bilingual anthology of the Nahda
By: edited by Tarek El-Ariss ; assistant editors, Anthony Edwards and Anna Ziajka Stantons
Series: MLA texts and translations, text and translation -- [30]; Texts and translations -- 30.; Texts and translations -- 30.; Texts and translations
Publisher: The Modern Language Association of America; Modern Language Association of America, an Imprint of Modern Language Association of America; Modern Language Association of America
Published: 2018
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 413
ISBN-13: 9781603293037
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Arabic literature; Translations into English; LITERARY COLLECTIONS; Middle Eastern; POETRY; Anthologies (multiple authors); FICTION; Arabisch; Literatur; Reformbewegung; Renaissance; Übersetzung
Description: "An anthology of Arabic texts and English translations of works from the Arab Renaissance (Nahda) on modernity, language, gender, transnationalism, literary criticism, politics, travel, social justice, technology, history, and commerce. The edition is designed for the classroom, with an introduction, translator's note, and textual notes for students and teachers"--
Notes: Series numbering from Cataloging-in-Publication data.

Includes bibliographical references.

In English and Arabic. English text translated from the Arabic.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction; title: Note on translation and transliteration; title: Part 1:; title: What Is the Renaissance? --; title: Butrus al-Bustani (1819-83), p.3 --; title: Fahmi al-Mudarris (1873-1944), p.20 --; title: Salama Musa (1887-1958), p.31 --; title: Khalil Gibran (1883-1931), p.50 -- -- Part 2:; title: Language and Civilization --; title: Jirmanus Farhat (1670-1732), p.71 --; title: Ya'qub Sannu' (1839-1912), p.83 --; title: 'Abdallah al-Nadim (1845-96), p.104 --; title: Hasan al-'Attar (c.1766-1835), p.117 --; title: 'Ali Mubarak (c.1823-93), p.128 -- -- Part 3:; title: Transnational Connections --; title: Esther Moyal (1873-1948), p.14 --; title: Thamarat al-Funun (1898), p.153 --; title: Muhammad 'Abduh (1849-1905), p.163 --; title: Mikhail Naimy (1889-1988), p.179 -- -- Part 4:; title: Theories of Literature --; title: Farah Antun (1874-1922), p.195 --; title: Khalil Baydas (1875-1949), p.206 --; title: Zin al-'Abdin al-Sanusi (1899-1965), p.217 -- -- Part 5:; title: Novels and Novellas --; title: al-Jinan and al-Zahra (1870), p.235 --; title: Adelaide al-Bustani (1849-1933), p.247 --; title: Zaynab Fawwaz (c. 1850-1914), p.261 --; title: Labiba Hashim (1882-1952), p.274 --; title: Mahmud Ahmad al-Sayyid (1904-37), p.287 -- -- Part 6:; title: Poetic Expressions --; title: Hafez Ibrahim (1872-1932), p.303 --; title: Mahmud Sami al-Barudi (1839-1904), p.316 --; title: 'Aisha Taymur (1840-1902), p.331 -- -- Part 7:; title: Political Modernity --; title: 'Abd al-Qadir al-Qabbani (1848-1935), p.339 --; title: Salim Sarkis (1867-1926), p.345 --; title: 'Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi (1855-1902), p.353 --; title: Nazira Zeineddine (1908-76), p.372 --; title: Mayy Ziyadah (1886-1941), p.393 -- Notes on contributors, p.409