Arabic-L:LIT:Anthology Responses
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Date: 17 Aug 2001
From: "David C. Reisman" <david.reisman at yale.edu>
Subject: Anthology Response
Greetings,
I find two anthologies useful for my Intro. to Islam class:
Andrew Rippin and Jan Knappert, Textual sources for the study of
Islam, Chicago, 1986.
Bernard Lewis, Islam, 2 vols., Harper Row/rep. Oxford, 1974.
For the Qur'an and tafsir, there is
Gätje, H. The Qur'an and its Exegesis. (tr. A.T.Welch.) Oxford, 1997.
I have less familiarity with the following:.
Renard, J. Windows on the House of Islam. Berkeley, 1998.
Peters, F.E. A Reader of Classical Islam. Princeton, 1994.
And, of course, none of these suggestions bear on translations of
modern Arabic literature, by which I mean novels, short stories and
poems, but there are plenty of these to be found.
Regards,
David
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Date: 17 Aug 2001
From: J Vahid Brown <vahidbrown at yahoo.com>
Subject: Anthology Response
Dear Mr. Parkinson,
Here are some suggestions, some of which I know to be
in print.
Rippin, A, and Jan Knappert eds. Textual sources for
the study of Islam. Totowa, NJ: Barnes & Noble Books,
1987.
Williams, John Alden, ed. The Word of Islam. Austin:
University of Texas Press, 1994.
Cragg, A.K., and R. Marston Speight, eds. Islam from
within: anthology of a Religion. Belmont, CA:
Wadsworth Pub. Co., 1980.
Peters, F.E. A reader on classical Islam. Princeton,
NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994.
Jeffery, Arthur. A Reader on Islam. The Hague, 1962.
Republished by Ayer & Co, 1980.
Lichtenstadter, Ilse. Introduction to Classical
Arabic Literature: With Selections from Representative
Works in English Translation. New York: Shocken
Books, 1976.
Bonebakker, S. A., and Michael Fishbein, eds. A
Reader of Classical Arabic Literature. Venice: U
Venice, 1995.
I hope that this is helpful.
Sincerely,
J.V. Brown
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Date: 17 Aug 2001
From: Michael Fishbein <fishbein at humnet.ucla.edu>
Subject: Anthology Response
For an anthology of Classical Arabic Literature in English, you might
try Night & Horses & the Desert, edited by Robert Irwin, Overlook
Press, Woodstock and New York, 1999.
--
Michael Fishbein
1638 Granville Ave., Apt. 6
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1829
310 826-2635
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Date: 17 Aug 2001
From: Mohsen Ashtiany <ma419 at columbia.edu>
Subject: Anthology Response
Title:
Night and horses and the desert : an
anthology of classical Arabic
literature /
Description:
xviii, 462 p. ; 24 cm.
Published:
Woodstock, NY : Overlook Press, 2000.
LC Subjects:
Arabic literature--Translations into English.
Arabic literature--History and criticism.
Other Authors:
Irwin, Robert, 1946-
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
1. Pagan Poets (A.D. 500-622) -- 2. The
Qur'an -- 3. Court Culture
(7th-8th centuries) -- 4. Widening
Horizons (c.750-c.900) -- 5. The
Wandering Scholars (c.900-c.1175) -- 6.
The Lost Kingdoms of the
Arabs: Andalusia -- 7. Servitude and
Military Grandeur.
Summary:
"Night and Horses and the Desert
reveals the authentic greatness of
Classical Arabic literature. Selecting
a wide range of Arabic poetry and
prose in translation, from the most
important and typical texts to the
very obscure, Robert Irwin provides an
introduction to the
subject."--BOOK JACKET.
LCCN:
00042738
ISN:
1585670642
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Date: 17 Aug 2001
From: Kamran Talattof <talattof at email.arizona.edu>
Subject: Anthology Response
Greetings,
The following book includes translation of more modern texts written by
Muslim thinkers in several countries such as Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Iran,
India, and Pakistan.
Contemporary Debates in Islam: An Anthology of Modernist and Fundamentalist
Thought, (New York: St. Martin Press, 2000).
KT
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6)
Date: 17 Aug 2001
From: Frank Lewis <flewis at emory.edu>
Subject: Anthology Response
From Adabiyat: [where the query was reposted by Frank]
"Barbara R. von Schlegell" wrote:
>
> I have used FE Peters *A Reader on Classical Islam* with success. I know
> some people have serious criticisms of the book, but barring the
> shortness of some selections, I find it fairly comprehensive. I tried
> using Renard's *Windows* and *Doors* volumes in the same Intro class.
> Because the intent of the work was to highlight more 'ordinary people'
> voices, I believe, the translated selections did not always fit with the
> more famous figures students were interested in. My overall favorite for
> anthologies remains *The Islamic World* ed. by Wm. McNeill and Marilyn
> Waldman. As far as I know, it also is OP so I xerox sections for a
> bulkpack with our bookstores permission procedure for same. Wonderful
> pieces, esp. Usama, Ghazali, Ibn Batuta, and "Otto Conquest of
> Constantinople" for later history. It should be re-issued.
>
> Best wishes, Barbara von Schlegell, UPenn
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Date: 17 Aug 2001
From: "Schub, Michael" <michael.schub at trincoll.edu>
Subject: Anthology Response
Lichtenstadter,,Ilsa. *Introduction to Classical Arabic Literature*
NY 1974. ISBN 0-8057-31111-3.
Best wishes,
Mike Schub
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