Six years before the Egyptian revolution of January 2011, many young Egyptians had resorted to blogging as a means of self-expression and literary creativity. This resulted in the emergence of a new literary genre: the autofictional blog. Such blogs are explored here as forms of digital literature, combining literary analysis and interviews with the authors. The blogs analysed give readers a glimpse into the daily lives, feelings and aspirations of the Egyptian youth who have pushed the country towards a cultural and political revolution. The narratives are also indicative of significant aesthetic and political developments taking place in Arabic literature and culture.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781474433990 20190401

In A History of Water Engineering and Management in Yemen, Ingrid Hehmeyer describes the three-way relationship between water, land, and humans from ancient to medieval and premodern times. As illustrated in case studies from four sites, individual ecosystems necessitated different engineering and management approaches in order to make good use of the scarce water resources for both irrigated agriculture and domestic consumption. Material remains and written sources provide the evidence for a comprehensive examination of continuity and change; technical and managerial struggles, failures, and successes; the question of technology transfer; the impact of the religion of Islam on water use and allocation; and people's reactions in times of severe crisis.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9789004387010 20190311

"Moses Maimonides' On Coitus was composed at the request of an unknown high-ranking official who asked for a regimen that would be easy to adhere to, and that would increase his sexual potency, as he had a large number of slave girls. It is safe to assume that it was popular in Jewish and non-Jewish circles, as it survives in several manuscripts, both in Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic. The present edition by Gerrit Bos contains the original Arabic text, three medieval Hebrew translations, two Latin versions from the same translation (edited by Charles Burnett), and a Slavonic translation (edited by Will Ryan and Moshe Taube)"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• Defining al-qawāʻid and al-qawāʻid al-fiqhiyyah
• The relation between al-qawāʻid al-fiqhiyyah and al-Ashbāh wa'l-naẓāʼir
• The origins of al-qawāʻid al-fiqhiyyah
• The development of al-qawāʻid al-fiqhiyyah
• The purpose of al-qawāʼid al-fiqhiyyah
• Ibn Nujaym and his al-Ashbāh wa'l-naẓāʼir
• Abū 'l-Suʻūd and his commentary
• The manuscripts
• The edited text of ʻUmdat al-nāẓir.

In the Nahda, or Arab Renaissance, from the early nineteenth to the early twentieth century, Arab culture and politics for the first time responded to European modernity and face the challenges to Arab power, tradition, and identity posed by the industrial, colonial nations of the West. In the process, Arab society both imitated and innovated, translating contemporary foreign texts, adopting new genres, developing journalism, creating a new publishing industry, and building new educational systems as it changed under conflicting forces: nationalism, secularism, Islamic revival, and language reforms. Collected in this anthology are texts by intellectuals, writers, clergy, and political figures that deal with authority, social norms, conventions and practices both secular and religious, gender roles, class, travel, and technology. Presented in the original Arabic and in English translation, they will be of interest of students of Arabic language and culture, history, cultural studies, gender studies, and other disciplines.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781603293037 20180903

Love poems from late 19th-century Arabia Arabian Romantic captures what it was like to live in central Arabia before the imposition of austere norms by the Wahhabi authorities in the early 20th century: tales of robbery and hot pursuit; perilous desert crossings; scenes of exhaustion and chaos when water is raised from deep wells under harsh conditions; the distress of wounded and worn-out animals on the brink of perdition; once proud warriors who are at the mercy of their enemy on the field of battle. Such images lend poignancy to the suffering of the poet's love-stricken heart, while also painting a vivid portrait of typical Bedouin life. Ibn Sbayyil (ca. 1853-1933), a town dweller from the Najd region of the Arabian Peninsula, was a key figure in the Nabati poetic tradition. His poetry, which is still recited today, broke with the artifice of the preceding generation by combining inherited idiom and original touches reflecting his environment. Translated into English for the first time by Marcel Kurpershoek, Arabian Romantic will delight readers with a poetry that is direct, fluent, and expressive, and that has entertained Arabic speakers for over a century.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781479837663 20181105

• Chapter 1: The Arabic Script, transliteration, alphabet
• Chapter 2: Pronunciation of consonants
• Chapter 3: Punctuation, handwriting
• Chapter 4: Vowels
• Chapter 5: Saddah, noun cases, nunation as the indefinite form
• Chapter 6: Long vowels
• Chapter 7: Hamzah, the Maddah sign
• Chapter 8: Definite articles
• Chapter 9: Sun and Moon letters
• Chapter 10: Gender Chapter 11:Conjunctions, prepositions, the particle
• Chapter 12: The Idafah construction
• Chapter 13: number, dual, plural
• Chapter 14: Perfect tense verbs, roots and radicals
• Chapter 15: Separate personal pronouns, suffix pronouns
• Chapter 16: Demonstrative pronouns
• Chapter 17: Imperfect tense verbs
• Chapter 18: Derived verb forms
• Chapter 19: Passive verbs
• Chapter 20: Rules for writing the Hamsah
• Chapter 21: Broken plurals, collective nouns
• Chapter 22: diptotes and triptotes
• Chapter 23: Participles, verbal nouns
• Chapter 24: Interrogative particles and pronouns, vocative particles
• Chapter 25: Adjectival patterns
• Chapter 26: Inna and its sisters, Kana and its sisters
• Chapter 27: Relative pronouns, relative clauses
• Chapter 28: Moods
• Chapter 29: Doubled verbs Chpater
• 30: Verbs with Hamzah
• Chapter 31: Verbs with the weak initial radical
• Chapter 32: Verbs with the weak middle radical
• Chapter 33: Verbs with the weak final radical
• Chapter 34: Cardinal numbers
• Chapter 35: Ordinal numbers
• Chapter 36: Exceptions
• Chapter 37: Verbs of wonder
• Chapter 38: Adverbs and adverbials
• Chapter 38: Adverbs and adverbials
• Chapter 39: Conditional sentences Appendices Paradigms.
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This new edition of Arabic: An Essential Grammar is an up-to-date and practical reference guide to the most important aspects of the language. Suitable for beginners, as well as intermediate students, the book offers a strong foundation for learning the fundamental grammar and structure of Arabic. The complexities of the language are set out in short, readable sections, while exercises and examples are provided throughout. Features of this new edition include: coverage of the Arabic script and alphabet a chapter on Arabic handwriting a guide to pronunciation full examples throughout. Ideal for independent learners and for classroom study, Arabic: An Essential Grammar is the complete reference guide to the most important aspects of modern literary Arabic.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781138659605 20180219