JOURNAL OF ARABIC LITERATURE最新文献

{"title":"The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Translation, edited by Sameh Hanna, Hanem El-Farahaty, and Abdel-Wahab Khalifa The Routledge Handbook of Translation, Feminism, and Gender, edited by Luise von Flotow and Hala Kamal","authors":"M. Booth","doi":"10.1163/1570064x-12341479","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1570064x-12341479","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43529,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ARABIC LITERATURE","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42897677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Power, Narrative, and Magical Realism in Hudā Ḥamad’s Sindrīllāt Masqaṭ","authors":"Mervat Aljomaa","doi":"10.1163/1570064x-12341478","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1570064x-12341478","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This article examines the narrative and literary techniques employed in Hudā Ḥamad’s Sindrīllāt Masqaṭ to draw on Omani women’s experiences of writing and speaking as sources of empowerment and narrative identity. Marking a shift from the dominant realistic and historical fiction often associated with male writers, Ḥamad experiments with magical realism, the carnivalesque, intertextuality, and metafiction to reconfigure the novelistic genre beyond the national prescriptions of literary production. Through the voice of the narrator, alongside the voices of other ordinary women, the novel underscores the significance of women’s symbolic practices within the societal and cultural boundaries of Oman. In an allegory of writing—a major thread running throughout the novel—the narrator/writer seeks to combine the composite, multiple, and fictional fragments of various women’s stories into a single readable text that preserves oral and cultural memory. Thus, on the one hand, this article explores the writer’s experimentation with narrative and storytelling within the context of the Omani literary tradition. On the other hand, it examines modes of women’s empowerment that work through articulative and enunciative practices in the face of linguistic frustration.","PeriodicalId":43529,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ARABIC LITERATURE","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42922828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Arabic Prose Poem: Poetic Theory and Practice, written by Huda J. Fakhreddine","authors":"S. Sperl","doi":"10.1163/1570064x-12341481","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1570064x-12341481","url":null,"abstract":"some Iraqis feel about minority groups, and the contributions they have made, rapidly disappearing from Iraq in current times. This final chapter thus provides a succinct, detailed background to the politics of Jewish exile and the precarity of belonging in Iraq. What, then, is the politics of this book’s location? It is first and foremost an archive and homage to the writers with whom Zeidel has interacted with over the years. His interactions have taken place in many forms, the first of which is via his corpus of Iraqi literature. His corpus is the 330 novels he has read in Arabic. He also dedicates Pluralism in the Iraqi Novel After 2003 to the Iraqi writers he has been interacting with, many of whose opinions and contributions to his work have been kept anonymous by Zeidel for their own safety (xi). This is why many statements on Iraqi literature which Zeidel attributes to Iraqi writers themselves, are not referenced to individual Iraqi writers. What Zeidel does state, however, is that much of his opinions on developments on Iraqi literature are very much informed by his “interactions” (xi) with Iraqi “activists, writers, publishers, journalists, poets, exiles, students and others”, most of which were only possible post-2003 due to political changes in Iraq and what he terms as “the technical revolution” in Iraq. Zeidel makes it explicit that he sourced much of the primary materials for his research from the University of Haifa (xi), which is why it is not surprising that other books may not have come to his attention due this specific location. Zeidel puts forward, for example, al-Dil` (The Rib, 2006), by Hamid al-Iqabi, as the sole example of a non-Kurdish Iraqi writer showing what Zeidel terms as “real empathy” (112) towards the tragedy of Kurdish Iraqis in Iraq. Other examples by non-Kurdish Iraqi writers showing similar empathy with Kurdish Iraqis within post-2003 context do exist, such as Hadiya Husayn’s novel Mā Sayaʾtī (What Will Come, 2017) as one example. I refer to this point not as a critique of Zeidel’s analysis but to highlight how the ‘politics of location’ impacts on all scholars’ archival literary research. Zeidel holds a view of Iraq as a country needing to embrace societal plurality and diversity as part of its recovery from the Iraqi Baʿthist era and the prevalence of hegemonic discourses of national identity. He thus reads examples of how the nationalist novel has “become pluralistic” (1) by tracking how explicitly Iraqi writers have shown representations of Iraqi identities in their novels. He takes the community identity of each Iraqi writer as an equally explicit instrument of analysis. Zeidel also clarifies the literary perspectives from which he reads, noting that “as an historian, I consider the literary text primarily as a source and not a text...Indeed, the literary text should be analysed in depth by specialists” (15). Such an approach, as noted earlier, precludes exploring the aesthetics by which many Iraqi nove","PeriodicalId":43529,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ARABIC LITERATURE","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43200448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Narrative in Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ","authors":"Shatha Almutawa","doi":"10.1163/1570064x-12341474","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1570064x-12341474","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This article examines the narratives that appear in the encyclopedic Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ (Epistles of the Brethren of Purity). Written in the tenth century, this multi-layered Neoplatonic work contains over 40 narratives—parables, allegories, fables, animal tales, and dialogues. These narratives serve multiple purposes, including the elucidation and illustration of ethical, philosophical, religious, mathematical, and scientific concepts. Together they encapsulate the philosophy of the secret society that produced them. With the exception of the famous animal fable, The Case of the Animals vs. Man in the Court of the King of the Jinn, these narratives have received little scholarly attention. Those narratives that have been studied have been considered in isolation rather than with the other narratives of the corpus. This article identifies the narratives in each epistle that utilizes them, shows their distribution, examines their types, and provides examples of the shorter narratives.","PeriodicalId":43529,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ARABIC LITERATURE","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49274613","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ghassān Kanafānī’s Children: Agency and Contingency","authors":"Ismail Nashef","doi":"10.1163/1570064x-12341476","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1570064x-12341476","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000One of the major premises of Arab (post)colonial modernity is that the child could be a key bearer of change for a better future for the society. For the child to be successful as a bearer of change, she must first be transformed into a modern subject. In this article, I present the Palestinian case to explore this premise, examining the nature of the child as a modern subject with a particular type of agency. Specifically, I will focus on how Ghassān Kanafānī’s literary works represent the child as a sociopolitical agent. I analyze several literary genres, including dedications, letters, short stories, and novels. The article concludes by suggesting that this particular agency is a hybrid of child-adult agency, bounded by intergenerational succession in the context of patriarchal-colonial Palestine of the post-Nakbah era.","PeriodicalId":43529,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ARABIC LITERATURE","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43397867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Qurʾān Quotations Preserved on Papyrus Documents, 7th–10th Centuries. And The Problem of Carbon Dating Early Qurʾāns, edited by Andreas Kaplony and Michael Marx","authors":"P. Sijpesteijn","doi":"10.1163/1570064x-12341484","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1570064x-12341484","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43529,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ARABIC LITERATURE","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47978869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Arabian Nights in Contemporary World Cultures: Global Commodification, Translation, and the Culture Industry, written by Muhsin Al-Musawi","authors":"Moneera al-Ghadeer","doi":"10.1163/1570064x-12341480","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1570064x-12341480","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43529,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ARABIC LITERATURE","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45277497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Way We See It: Poetic-Visual Reciprocity in Egyptian Street Art Since 2011","authors":"Eid Mohamed, Talaat Farouq Mohamed","doi":"10.1163/1570064x-12341470","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1570064x-12341470","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This article traces the manifestations of the newly adapted artistic form of “calligraffiti,” or the synthetic braiding of poetry and graffiti on what became known as the “walls of protest” in post-2011 Egypt. This new mode of writing/drawing answers to the immediacy of an unprecedented revolutionary moment in Egypt and rewrites Egyptian history in peculiar artistic instantaneity. The image-text discursive dynamics of this hybrid form of expression enhance our understanding of the 2011 Egyptian uprising, enabling us to explore the potential of revolutionary impulse for stretching new artistic forms. This article therefore engages calligraffiti as a means to expand the scope of the literary, and specifically the poetic, to involve the visual dimension as coupled with the conceptual (linguistic). In this border- and genre-crossing artistic mode, Arabic poetry and graffiti meld as a revolutionary form of self-expression that defies local and international hegemonic, patriarchal regimes. Calligraffiti serves not only as a means of registering a revolutionary moment in Egypt or of celebrating the epiphany of the uprising, but more importantly it stands as a cultural and literary tool developed and used by Egyptian artists to represent the revolutionary artistic self and galvanize dissent during a highly contested moment in Egypt’s history. The article thus traces the ways that the calligraffiti of Egyptian artists like Bahiyyah Shihāb (Bahia Shehab) and ʿUmar Fatḥī (Omar Fathy), ʿAmmār Abū Bakr (Ammar Abo Bakr), Ganzīr (Ganzeer), Al-Mushīr (El-Moshir) and ʿAlāʾ ʿAwaḍ (Alaa Awad), are enmeshed with the poetic lines of Amal Dunqul, Pablo Neruda, and Yāsir al-Manawahlī (Yasser el-Manawahly) on the artistic canvas of muralled Egyptian revolution.","PeriodicalId":43529,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ARABIC LITERATURE","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49057604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus, written by Dwight Reynolds","authors":"Imed Nsiri","doi":"10.1163/1570064x-12341468","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1570064x-12341468","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43529,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ARABIC LITERATURE","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43497887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Adab as a Way of Life: Towards an Ethical Turn in History","authors":"Dahlia E. M. Gubara, A. Wick","doi":"10.1163/1570064x-12341458","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1570064x-12341458","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Like ancient philosophy in Pierre Hadot’s conception, the polysemic notion of adab in the Arabic-Islamic tradition was a way of life, and not merely a scholarly discipline or cultural field. This essay explores this proposition in reference to the life and work of the Palestinian historian Ṭarīf al-Khālidī, where adab has been a central locus of reflection. Although steeped in present-day historical, literary, and philosophical discussions, we argue that al-Khālidī’s approach has an uncanny resemblance to classical conceptions of adab and thereby invites a re-examination of current scholarly practices, presaging an ethical turn in the study of history.","PeriodicalId":43529,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ARABIC LITERATURE","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41736061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}