The Warrior Women of Islam: Female Empowerment in Arabic Popular Literature - Paperback
by Remke Kruk
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Availability:In StockContributor:Remke KrukSeries:Library of Middle East HistoryPublish date:2014-01-29Pages:304
Language:EnglishPublisher:I. B. Tauris & CompanyISBN-13:9781848859272ISBN-10:1848859279UPC:9781848859272Book Category:History, Language Arts & Disciplines, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Middle East, Linguistics, AfricanBook Topic:Historical & ComparativeSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.9215Product ID:SC14M1SFJP
The Warrior Women of Islam: Female Empowerment in Arabic Popular Literature
Colloquial Arabic storytelling is most commonly associated with The Thousandvand One Nights. But few people are aware of a much larger corpus of narrative texts known as popular epic. These heroic romantic tales, originating in the Middle Ages, form vast cycles of adventure stories whose most remarkable feature is their portrayal of powerful and memorable women. Wildly appreciated by medieval...
Series: Library of Middle East History
Language:EnglishPublisher:I. B. Tauris & CompanyISBN-13:9781848859272ISBN-10:1848859279UPC:9781848859272Book Category:History, Language Arts & Disciplines, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Middle East, Linguistics, AfricanBook Topic:Historical & ComparativeSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.9215Product ID:SC14M1SFJP
Remke Kruk is Professor Emeritus of Arabic at the University of Leiden. Starting with The Arabic Version of Aristotle's Parts of Animals: Books XI-XIV of the KitAZab al-HayawaAZn (1979), she has published on a wide range of subjects, notably in the field of Graeco-Arabic natural philosophy. She was the editor, with Gerhard Endress, of The Ancient Tradition in Christian and Islamic Hellenism...
Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
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