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Date: 04 Dec 2009
From:rgietz at harrassowitz.de
Subject:New book: Essays in Arabic Literary Biography II


Announcement of a new publication by Harrassowitz Verlag: 

Lowry, Joseph E. / Stewart, Devin J. (Eds.)
Essays in Arabic Literary Biography II: 1350-1850 
Mizan 17,2 
2009. IV, 431 pages - 24,0 × 17,0 cm, hc 
ISBN 978-3-447-05933-6 
EUR 68,00 /sFr 116,00/ US $ ca. 117,-	


The three volumes of Essays in Arabic Literary Biography contain 
entries by leading specialists in the field of Arabic literature studies 
devoted to the major representatives of the literary heritage of Arabic 
culture within three specific periods: 950-1350 (ed. Terri DeYoung); 
1350-1850 (ed. Joseph E. Lowry and Devin Stewart); and 
1850-1950 (ed. Roger Allen). 

Each volume attempts to reflect larger movements of cultural 
development and change within the realms of literary production 
and commentary during the given period. While the major names 
associated with each period are to be found, a particular effort 
has also been made to reflect the geographical diversity of the 
Arabic-speaking regions in the different historical periods involved. 

This volume contains biographical studies of thirty-eight 
Arabic literary figures who lived between 1350 and 1850, 
a neglected period of Arabic literary history. The essays situate 
the authors and their writings in local contexts of literary and 
cultural production, from Morocco to Iran, India and Indonesia, 
in many cases offering the first comprehensive assessments 
of their lives and works. 

What emerges from the collection as a whole is a period characterized 
by institutional change, competition, conspicuous virtuosity, and diversity - 
when Christian and Shiite writers also played important roles. 
Although modern scholarship has seen these centuries as mired in 
cultural decadence and decline, the literary figures in this volume display 
astonishing inventiveness, both in their understanding and appropriation 
of the Arabic literary tradition as well as in their many formal innovations. 

Vol 3: will be published in February 2010, Vol 1 will follow later 
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Do not hesitate to contact us if you have further questions. Do so 
by emailing <rgietz at harrassowitz.de>a toc of the book can be found here: 
http://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/dzo/artikel/201/003/3728_201.pdf?t=1259768494 

Orders can be placed with any international bookseller, with 
<service at harrassowitz.de> (Harrassowitz Subscription agency), with 
our online shop (www.harrassowitz-verlag.de), or with www.amazon.de 
or www.amazon.com   
http://www.amazon.com/Essays-Arabic-Literary-Biography-1350-1850/dp/3447059338/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259769350&sr=8-1 
or the David Brown Bookstore in Connecticut 
http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/69513 

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