Muhsin J Al Musawi: 2 books
Medieval Islamic Republic of Letters, The
Arabic Knowledge Construction
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
In The Medieval Islamic Republic of Letters: Arabic Knowledge Construction, Muhsin J. al-Musawi offers a groundbreaking study of literary heritage in the medieval and premodern Islamic period. Al-Musawi challenges the paradigm that considers the period from the fall of Baghdad in 1258 to the collapse...
Arabic Poetry
Trajectories of Modernity and Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Since the late 1940s, Arabic poetry has spoken for an Arab conscience, as much as it has debated positions and ideologies, nationally and worldwide. This book tackles issues of modernity and tradition in Arabic poetry as manifested in poetic texts and criticism by poets as participants in transformation...