Best Middle Eastern Literary Criticism Books
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1. NET Bible, Full-notes Edition, Cloth over Board, Gray, Comfort Print: Holy Bible
Author: by Thomas Nelson
English
2448 pages
0785224645
Ever feel lost in translation? With the NET Full-notes Edition of the Holy Bible, you don’t need to be. Modern readers can find it challenging to connect with the ancient words and cultural contexts of the biblical writers. The NET offers a completely new solution: pairing a readable, everyday English translation with the largest set of translators’ notes ever created for a Bible.
The NET’s 60,000 notes bring complete transparency to every major translation decision and invite you to look over the translators’ shoulders, allowing you to come to your own understanding of the Scriptures. It is an indispensable resource for every Bible reader.
Features include: The newest complete English translation based on the most up-to-date manuscript discoveries and scholarshipA translation that explains itselfover 60,000 translators’ notes offer unprecedented transparencyFull-color mapsDurable Smyth-sewn binding lays flat in your hand or on your desk8. 75-point print size Scripture text in Thomas Nelson’s exclusive NET Comfort Print typeface
2. NET Bible, Full-notes Edition, Leathersoft, Teal, Comfort Print: Holy Bible
Author: by Thomas Nelson
English
2448 pages
0785225099
Ever feel lost in translation? With the NET Full-notes Edition of the Holy Bible, you don’t need to be. Modern readers can find it challenging to connect with the ancient words and cultural contexts of the biblical writers. The NET offers a completely new solution: pairing a readable, everyday English translation with the largest set of translators’ notes ever created for a Bible.
The NET’s 60,000 notes bring complete transparency to every major translation decision and invite you to look over the translators’ shoulders, allowing you to come to your own understanding of the Scriptures. It is an indispensable resource for every Bible reader.
Features include: The newest complete English translation based on the most up-to-date manuscript discoveries and scholarshipA translation that explains itselfover 60,000 translators’ notes offer unprecedented transparencyFull-color mapsDurable Smyth-sewn binding lays flat in your hand or on your desk8. 75-point print size Scripture text in Thomas Nelson’s exclusive NET Comfort Print typeface
3. NET Bible, Full-notes Edition, Leathersoft, Black, Comfort Print: Holy Bible
Author: by Thomas Nelson
English
2448 pages
0785225161
Ever feel lost in translation? With the NET Full-notes Edition of the Holy Bible, you don’t need to be. Modern readers can find it challenging to connect with the ancient words and cultural contexts of the biblical writers. The NET offers a completely new solution: pairing a readable, everyday English translation with the largest set of translators’ notes ever created for a Bible.
The NET’s 60,000 notes bring complete transparency to every major translation decision and invite you to look over the translators’ shoulders, allowing you to come to your own understanding of the Scriptures. It is an indispensable resource for every Bible reader.
Features include: The newest complete English translation based on the most up-to-date manuscript discoveries and scholarshipA translation that explains itselfover 60,000 translators’ notes offer unprecedented transparencyFull-color mapsDurable Smyth-sewn binding lays flat in your hand or on your desk8. 75-point print size Scripture text in Thomas Nelson’s exclusive NET Comfort Print typeface
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I Saw Ramallah
Author: by Mourid Barghouti
Anchor
English
208 pages
WINNER OF THE NAGUIB MAHFOUZ MEDAL FOR LITERATUREA fierce and moving work and an unparalleled rendering of the human aspects of the Palestinian predicament. Barred from his homeland after 1967’s Six-Day War, the poet Mourid Barghouti spent thirty years in exileshuttling among the world’s cities, yet secure in none of them; separated from his family for years at a time; never certain whether he was a visitor, a refugee, a citizen, or a guest.
As he returns home for the first time since the Israeli occupation, Barghouti crosses a wooden bridge over the Jordan River into Ramallah and is unable to recognize the city of his youth. Sifting through memories of the old Palestine as they come up against what he now encounters in this mere idea of Palestine, he discovers what it means to be deprived not only of a homeland but of the habitual place and status of a person.
A tour de force of memory and reflection, lamentation and resilience, I Saw Ramallah is a deeply humane book, essential to any balanced understanding of today’s Middle East.
5. The Complete Works of Kahlil Gibran: All poems and short stories (Global Classics)
Author: by Kahlil Gibran
B01GOYKVWM
GENERAL PRESS
April 24, 2018
Kahlil Gibran is one of the most popular poets of all time. His words have the power to move emotions, inspire creativity, and transform lives. He produced some of the world’s most remarkable poems and philosophical essays throughout his almost thirty-year career.
This enriching collection of his works includes more than 150 of his stories, prose poems, verse, parables, and autobiographical essays. It also contains over thirty original photographic reproductions of drawings by Gibran. Gibran’s best-known work, ‘The Prophet’ is composed of twenty-six poetic essays.
Its popularity grew markedly during the 1960s with the American counterculture and then with the flowering of the New Age movements. It has remained popular with these and with the wider population to this day. Since it was first published in 1923, it has never been out of print, and has been translated into more than forty languages.
General Press is proud to bring together, for the first time in ebook form, all of Gibran’s works into a single collection. This collection features the following works:A Tear and a SmileThe Broken WingsThe Earth GodsThe ForerunnerThe Garden of the ProphetI Believe in YouJesus the Son of ManLazarus and His BelovedThe MadmanHis Parables and PoemsMy CountrymenThe New FrontierThe ProphetSand and FoamSatanSpirits RebelliousThe WandererHis Parables and His SayingsYou Have Your Lebanon and I Have My LebanonYour Thought and MineKAHLIL GIBRAN:Kahlil Gibran was a Lebanese-American artist, poet, and writer, born in 1883 in Lebanon and died in New York in 1931.
6. Faces of God: Canaanite Mythology As Hebrew Theology
Author: by Jacob Rabinowitz
Spring Publications
English
120 pages
The Hebrew bible stole with both hands from Canaanite myth (proof was dug up in Syria in 1928). Biblical scholars agreed to reinter the evidence to maintain the “literal” truth of the Scripture be it as certain revelation or as dubious historical data.
But the Bible is as full of Pagan mythology as a snake’s egg is of snake. Here you’ll find it cite din full” the sky-gods, world-mountains, war-goddesses, and chaos-dragons the hydra-head faces of God.
7. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
Author: by Omar Khayyám
B08F6X4JBG
English
94 pages
A new, beautifully laid-out edition of Edward Fitzgerald’s first version of the Rubiyt of Omar Khayym, as originally published in 1859.
8. I believe in Allah
Author: by Bachar Karroum
English
29 pages
198877926X
Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim,Follow the story of Ali and Sami one who has faith and believes in Allah, and the other who doesn’t. Sami doesn’t believe in God because he can’t see Him. Ali has a totally different perception. Ali wants to share his way of thinking with Sami.But how?
After some reflection, Ali finds a creative way and proposes telling Sami a story. Does the story of the two baby Giraffes waiting to be born help Sami better understand the notion of faith and Allah’s existence? The story behind this bookThis book is based on the famous story Does Mother Exist – Is There Life After Birth, written by the author Pablo J.Molinero.
A short version of this story has traveled around the world and has been shared more than one million times on social media. We liked this story so much that we decided to adapt it and share it with muslim children.
The original story is about a discussion between two fetuses inside their mother’s womb. The two babies are talking about life after birth and wonder if Mother exists on the outside. The exchanges between the two are full of meaning and push adults and children to reflect deeply on both the concept of the existence of God and of life per se.
9. The Arabian Nights (Norton Critical Editions)
Author: by Daniel Heller-Roazen
English
544 pages
039392808X
This Norton Critical Edition includes twenty-eight tales from The Arabian Nights translated by Husain Haddawy on the basis of the oldest existing Arabic manuscript. Few works of literature are as familiar and beloved as The Arabian Nights. Yet few remain also as unknown.
In English, The Arabian Nights is a literary work of relatively recent datethe first versions of the tales appeared in English barely two hundred years ago. The tales are accompanied by a preface, a note on the text, and explanatory annotations.
Contexts presents three of the oldest witnesses to The Arabian Nights in the Arabic tradition, together in English for the first time: an anonymous ninth-century fragment, Al Masudi’s Muruj al-Dhahab, and Ibn al-Nadim’s The Fihrist. Also included are three related works by the nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers Edgar Allan Poe, Marcel Proust, and Taha Husayn.
Criticism collects eleven wide-ranging essays on The Arabian Nights’ central themes by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Josef Horovitz, Jorge Luis Borges, Francesco Gabrieli, Mia Irene Gerhardt, Tzvetan Todorov, Andras Hamori, Heinz Grotzfield, Jerome W. Clinton, Abdelfattah Kilito, and David Pinault. A Chronology of The Arabian Nights and a Selected Bibliography are also included.
10. The Forbidden Rumi: The Suppressed Poems of Rumi on Love, Heresy, and Intoxication
Author: by Nevit O. Ergin
Inner Traditions
English
176 pages
The first collection of poems translated into English from the forbidden volume of the Divan of Rumi Presents Rumi’s most heretical and free-form poems Includes introductions and commentary that provide both 13th-century context and modern interpretationAfter his overwhelming and life-altering encounters with Shams of Tabriz, Rumi, the great thirteenth-century mystic, poet, and originator of the whirling dervishes, let go of many of the precepts of formal religion, insisting that only a complete personal dissolving into the larger energies of God could provide the satisfaction that the heart so desperately seeks.
He began to speak spontaneously in the language of poetry, and his followers compiled his 44,000 verses into 23 volumes, collectively called the Divan. When Nevit Ergin decided to translate the Divan of Rumi into English, he enlisted the help of the Turkish government, which was happy to participate.
The first 22 volumes were published without difficulty, but the government withdrew its support and refused to participate in the publication of the final volume due to its openly heretical nature. Now, in The Forbidden Rumi, Will Johnson and Nevit Ergin present for the first time in English Rumi’s poems from this forbidden volume.
11. The Prophet: The Original 1923 Edition With Complete Illustrations (The Prose Poetry Fables of Kahlil Gibran)
Author: by Kahlil Gibran
B0943ZZ8C2
English
108 pages
You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts. Kahlil Gibran, The ProphetThis beautiful edition contains illustrations from the original edition which was published in 1923. Kahlil Gibran’s masterpiece, The Prophet, is one of the most beloved classics of our time.
The Prophet has been translated into over 100 different languages, making it one of the most translated books in history and the American editions alone have sold more than nine million copies. The Prophet is a collection of poetic essays that are philosophical, spiritual, and, above all, inspirational.
Gibran’s musings are divided into twenty-eight chapters covering such sprawling topics as love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, housing, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, talking, time, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty, religion, and death.
A True Classic that Belongs on Every Bookshelf!
12. Gilgamesh: The Life of a Poem
Author: by Michael Schmidt
English
192 pages
0691205167
Reflections on a lost poem and its rediscovery by contemporary poetsGilgamesh is the most ancient long poem known to exist. It is also the newest classic in the canon of world literature. Lost for centuries to the sands of the Middle East but found again in the 1850s, it is a story of monsters, gods, and cataclysms, and of intimate friendship and love.
Acclaimed literary historian Michael Schmidt provides a unique meditation on the rediscovery of Gilgamesh, showing how part of its special fascination is its captivating otherness. He reflects on the work of leading poets such as Charles Olson, Louis Zukofsky, and Yusef Komunyakaa, whose own encounters with the poem are revelatory, and he reads its many translations and editions to bring it vividly to life for today’s readers.
13. Desiring Arabs
Author: by Joseph A. Massad
English
453 pages
0226509591
Sexual desire has long played a key role in Western judgments about the value of Arab civilization. In the past, Westerners viewed the Arab world as licentious, and Western intolerance of sex led them to brand Arabs as decadent; but as Western society became more sexually open, the supposedly prudish Arabs soon became viewed as backward.
Rather than focusing exclusively on how these views developed in the West, in Desiring Arabs Joseph A. Massad reveals the history of how Arabs represented their own sexual desires. To this aim, he assembles a massive and diverse compendium of Arabic writing from the nineteenth century to the present in order to chart the changes in Arab sexual attitudes and their links to Arab notions of cultural heritage and civilization.
A work of impressive scope and erudition, Massad’s chronicle of both the history and modern permutations of the debate over representations of sexual desires and practices in the Arab world is a crucial addition to our understanding of a frequently oversimplified and vilified culture.
14. Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
Author: by Swami Vivekananda
B097NC9GRD
Icarsus (June 20, 2021)
June 20, 2021
This ebook contains all the books, lecture, discussions, prose, poetry, and letters written by Swami Vivekananda, a spiritual teacher from India at the end of the 19th century who brought Vedanta to the United States and Europe. Vivekananda was a disciple of realized and awakened saint Sri Ramakrishna.
CONTENTSIntroductionVolume IAddresses at The Parliament of ReligionsKarma-YogaRaja-YogaLectures and DiscoursesVolume IIWork And Its SecretThe Powers of the MindHints On Practical SpiritualityBhakti Or DevotionJnana-YogaPractical Vedanta and other lecturesReports in American NewspapersVolume IIILectures and DiscoursesBhakti-YogaPara-Bhakti or Supreme DevotionLectures from Colombo to AlmoraReports in American NewspapersBuddhistic IndiaVolume IVAddresses on Bhakti-YogaLectures and DiscoursesWritings: ProseWritings: PoemsTranslation: ProseTranslation: PoemsVolume VEpistles – First SeriesInterviewsNotes from Lectures and DiscoursesQuestions and AnswersConversations and DialoguesSayings And UtterancesWritings: Prose and PoemsVolume VILectures and DiscoursesNotes of Class Talks and LecturesWritings: Prose and Poems (Original and Translated)Epistles Second SeriesConversations and DialoguesVolume VIIConversations and DialoguesInspired talksTranslation of writingsNotes of Class Talks and LecturesEpistles Third SeriesVolume VIIILectures and DiscoursesWritings: ProseWritings: PoemsNotes of Class Talks and LecturesSayings And UtterancesEpistles Fourth SeriesVolume IXLetters – Fifth SeriesLectures and DiscoursesNotes of Lectures and ClassesWritings: Prose and PoemsConversations and InterviewsExcerpts from Sister Nivedita’s BookSayings and UtterancesNewspaper Reports
