Middle Eastern category: 410 books
Rethinking Khayyaamism
His Controversial Poems and Vision
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
This book contains poetry attributed to Omar Khayyaam (1048-1131), a popular Iranian poet whose philosophies provoke strong reactions from those who agree or disagree with his ideas. Khayyaamism is a particular worldview that challenges established religious beliefs and practices that are contrary...
Our Syria
Recipes from Home
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Syria is where food, memory, and resilience collide: recreate the flavors of this beautiful country in Our Syria, for delicious meals anywhere in the world.
Syria has always been the meeting point for the most delicious flavors from East and West, where spices and sweetness collide. Even now,...
Under the Shade of Olive Trees
Recipes from Jerusalem to Marrakech and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Dutch writers and cooks Nadia Zerouali and Merijn Tol are in love with the culture and foods of the Mediterranean-Arabian world. They set out on a journey that took them across Morocco and Tunisia, Syria and Lebanon, Sicily and Spain, to experience the rich, exotic flavors of the Middle East. Here,...
Graying of The Raven
Cultural and Sociopolitical Significance of Algerian Folk Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2001
From East to West The raven has turned gray O Reader of the unknown Help us in our ordeal! With a fine touch, Aida Bamia has explored the work of Muhammad bin al-Tayyib 'Alili (c.1894 c.1954), a hitherto virtually unknown oral poet of Algeria, bringing to her analysis new understanding of folk poetry...
Prophet Muhammad in French and English Literature
1650 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
"Gunny, a pioneer in the study of French and European literary and theological representations of Islam in the modern period, offers a survey of over 350 years, which is both a cross cultural history and a discussion of the intellectual changes in the representation of the Prophet's life based on...
Rose Water and Orange Blossoms
Fresh & Classic Recipes from my Lebanese Kitchen
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Cookbooks for Spring 2015
Pomegranates and pistachios. Floral waters and cinnamon. Bulgur wheat, lentils, and succulent lamb. These were the lush ingredients of Maureen Abood's childhood, growing up as a Lebanese-American in Northern Michigan. As an adult, Maureen...
Fictitious Capital
Silk, Cotton, and the Rise of the Arabic Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
The ups and downs of silk, cotton, and stocks syncopated with serialized novels in the late nineteenth-century Arabic press: Time itself was changing. Khalīl al-Khūrī, Salīm al-Bustānī, Yūsuf al-Shalfūn, Jurjī Zaydān and Yaʿqūb Ṣarrūf wrote novels of debt, dissimulation, and risk—increasingly...
Diwan 'Antarah ibn Shaddad
A Literary-Historical Study
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
The pre-Islamic warrior-poet 'Antarah ibn Shaddad, a composer of one of the Mu'allaqat, attracted the attention of the philologists who were active in Iraq at the nascence of the scholarly study of Arabic. These philologists collected and studied the diwan of 'Antarah as part of their recovery and...
Feast
Food of the Islamic World
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
WINNER OF THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL COOKBOOK AWARD
NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED COOKBOOK OF SPRING 2018 BY BON APPETIT, FOOD & WINE, EPICURIOUS, TASTING TABLE, ESQUIRE, GLOBE & MAIL, and PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
"[Helou's] range of knowledge and unparalleled authority make her just...
by Maria Nasir
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
“What to cook for Iftar and dinner?” An important question in many Muslim households during the holy month of Ramadan when every long-awaited meal is special.
This book of hand-picked family Ramadan recipes gives you an answer to this question for the whole week. For each day, there is...
The Qur'an and Modern Arabic Literary Criticism
From Taha to Nasr
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
In The Qur'an and Modern Arabic Literary Criticism, Mohammad Salama navigates the labyrinthine semantics that underlie this sacred text and inform contemporary scholarship. The book presents reflections on Quranic exegesis by explaining - and distinguishing between - interpretation and explication....
Saffron in the Souks
Vibrant recipes from the heart of Lebanon
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
From the vibrant souks of Tripoli and Beirut to the quiet calm of the Chouf Mountains and Qadisha Valley, Lebanon is a land of bold colours, exquisite flavours and hidden beauty. For this gorgeous book, John Gregory-Smith travelled the length and breadth of the country to bring back the very best...
Palestinian Culture and the Nakba
Bearing Witness
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
The Nakba not only resulted in the loss of the homeland, but also caused the dispersal and ruin of entire Palestinian communities. Even though the term Nakba refers to a singular historic event, the consequence of 1948 has symptomatically become part of Palestinian identity, and the element that demarcates...
by Malcolm D. Allen
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 1991
M. D. Allen's study deals with T. E. Lawrence's lifelong interest in the medieval world, especially medieval literature, and its considerable influence on his view of himself and of the Arabs with whom he fought in an archaic theater of war, and hence his own literary production.
The Medievalism...