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subject:"Literary Criticism / Middle Eastern" from books.google.com
Millennia after its composition, Gilgamesh continues to speak to us in myriad ways.
subject:"Literary Criticism / Middle Eastern" from books.google.com
This book examines the stories' sexual and homoerotic language and suggests that its ambiguity provides fresh ways of understanding ideas of gender and sexuality in the ancient Near East.
subject:"Literary Criticism / Middle Eastern" from books.google.com
In 1253, the Franciscan friar William of Rubruck encountered Muslims where he may well not have expected, and certainly did not wish, to find any.
subject:"Literary Criticism / Middle Eastern" from books.google.com
This book traces the history of the idea that the king and later the messiah is Son of God, from its origins in ancient Near Eastern royal ideology to its Christian appropriation in the New Testament.
subject:"Literary Criticism / Middle Eastern" from books.google.com
This volume of The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature covers artistic prose and poetry produced in the heartland and provinces of the 'Abbasid empire during the second great period of Arabic literature, from the mid-eighth to the ...
subject:"Literary Criticism / Middle Eastern" from books.google.com
A comprehensive work on the autobiographical tradition in Arabic letters, which includes a detailed introduction to the genre and a selection of autobiographical texts ranging from the 9th to the 19th centuries.
subject:"Literary Criticism / Middle Eastern" from books.google.com
The book includes the entire set of 87 sixteenth-century woodcuts, which some scholars have attributed to Albrecht D Ürer.
subject:"Literary Criticism / Middle Eastern" from books.google.com
Told with hum our, irony and pathos, his travelogue is filled with marvels which blend idealism with reality. L. P. Harvey reviews Ibn Battuta's journeys and discusses the major themes of the Travels.
subject:"Literary Criticism / Middle Eastern" from books.google.com
Reference librarian and archivist Paula (Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education, Virginia) and Rebecca, a scholar of Arabic studies, present a critically annotated bibliography of central works on Islam ...