الوصف: Helps intermediate and advanced learners of Arabic develop their vocabulary, writing, translation and comprehensionTranslates over 8,000 idioms and expressions from Arabic into EnglishReflects a broad range of registers from everyday topics to business jargon and includes phrases from classical to modern ArabicDesigned to be helpful to all Arabic users whether they are translating medieval texts, signing business documents or simply having a conversationOrganised alphabetically from Alif to Yaaʾ (A–Z) Includes a user guide and list of abbreviations Are you at your wits'end (ضاقت بك الأرض) trying to master the Arabic language (تجيد اللغة)? With thousands of entries, this dictionary will help you to rattle off (تحدر حدراً) idioms and expressions in no time (في لمح البصر). The ability to use and understand idioms and expressions often marks the difference between a language-learning beginner and a natural-sounding language user. This dictionary translates over 8,000 Arabic idioms and expressions into English, covering a wide range of situations and registers. It helps intermediate and advanced learners of Arabic working in fields including translation, academia and business to hone their skills, and is equally useful to native Arabic speakers involved in translating and interpreting from Arabic to English.

المؤلفون: Lahlali, El Mustapha, Islam, Tajul

نوع المادة: eBook.

تصنيفات: FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Arabic

الوصف: Through a series of insightful and sophisticated readings, this book reveals the worldliness of premodern Persian poetry. It traces the political role of poetry in shaping the prison poem genre (habsiyyat) across 12th-century Central, South and West Asia., offering an unprecedented account of prison poetry before modernity.

المؤلفون: Rebecca Ruth Gould

نوع المادة: eBook.

الموضوعات: Prisons in literature, Prisoners in literature, Persian poetry--747-1500--History and criticism

تصنيفات: LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern

الوصف: Intermediate and advanced learners will discover how to use the Arabic linguistic features that are key to achieving written fluency. Each unit contains carefully selected exercises where students practise their vocabulary and grammar in a range of registers and contexts: writing a CV, a short story, a love letter, an essay and many more.

المؤلفون: El Mustapha Lahlali

نوع المادة: eBook.

الموضوعات: Arabic language--Written Arabic, Arabic language--Rhetoric, Arabic language--Textbooks for foreign speakers--English

تصنيفات: FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Arabic

الوصف: These 200 abstracts, in English, Arabic and Turkish, showcase scholarship that examines cities as built (architecture and urban infrastructure) and lived (urban social life and culture) environments.

المؤلفون: Khanbaghi, Aptin

نوع المادة: eBook.

الموضوعات: City planning--Islamic countries--History, Cities and towns--Islamic countries--History

تصنيفات: ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning

الوصف: A transnational study of the American Renaissance which explores the literary circulation of Middle Eastern translations of 19th-century U.S. literature In a pioneering approach to classic U.S. Literature, Jeffrey Einboden traces the global afterlives of literary icons from Washington Irving to Walt Whitman and analyses 19th-century American authors as they now appear in Arabic, Hebrew and Persian translation. Crossing linguistic, cultural and national boundaries, Middle Eastern renditions of U.S. texts are interrogated as critical readings and illuminating revisions of their American sources. Why does Moby-Dick both invite and resist Arabic translation? What are the religious and aesthetic implications of re-writing Leaves of Grass in Hebrew? How does rendering The Scarlet Letter into Persian transform Hawthorne's infamous symbol? Uncovering the choices and changes made by prominent Middle Eastern translators, this study is the first to reveal the significance of'orienting'American classics, demonstrating how such a process offers a valuable lens for reconsidering U.S. literary origins, accenting and amplifying facets of the American Renaissance customarily hidden. Key Features: Advances Transatlantic Studies through expanding the field's critical perspective and methods, revealing the Middle East as a significant region for American literary receptions, and translation as an instructive lens for re-evaluating U.S. classics Provides vital transnational readings of Washington Irving, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville and Walt Whitman previously unacknowledged in American Studies Develops and promotes a theory of global literary circulation, situating the American Renaissance as a pivotal movement, reaching back to ancient Middle Eastern sources, and forward to developing Middle Eastern transmissions

المؤلفون: Einboden, Jeffrey

نوع المادة: eBook.

الموضوعات: American literature--Translations into Hebrew, American literature--19th century--History and criticism, American literature--Translations into Arabic, American literature--Translations into Persian

تصنيفات: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General

الوصف: Sufi characters †“ saints, dervishes, wanderers †“ occur regularly in modern Arabic literature. A select group of novelists to interrogate Sufism as a system of thought and language. In the work of writers like Naguib Mahfouz, Gamal Al-Ghitany, Taher Ouettar, Ibrahim Al-Koni, Mahmud Al-Mas'adi and Tayeb Salih we see a strong intertextual relationship with the Sufi masters of the past, including Al-Hallaj, Ibn Arabi, Al-Niffari and Al-Suhrawardi. This relationship becomes a means of interrogating the limits of the creative self, individuality, rationality and the manifold possibilities offered by literature, seeking in a dialogue with the mystical heritage a way of preserving a self under siege from the overwhelming forces of oppression and reaction that have characterised the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

المؤلفون: Elmarsafy, Ziad

نوع المادة: eBook.

الموضوعات: Arabic prose literature, Sufism in literature

تصنيفات: LITERARY CRITICISM / African

الوصف: This book is designed to help learners of Arabic at all levels develop and refine their writing skills, focusing on the structure of Arabic sentences and paragraphs, and the cohesive links between them. It provides a variety of phrases and idiomatic expressions that can be used in writing and places great emphasis on writing in different genres, including literary and media texts. Learners are also introduced to the cultural aspects of writing, such as writing and responding to different types of letters.A chapter on creative writing in Arabic is featured to encourage learners to utilise their vocabulary and grammar skills, and a chapter on learners'writing errors will enable readers to reflect on the type of mistakes they may make in their writing, and how to overcome them.Key Features•Includes a broad range of writing genres: letters, summaries, articles, etc.•Provides a theoretical and practical guide on how to use connectors and cohesive devices•Helps the learner accumulate a wide range of vocabulary in context•Challenges the learner with a variety of Arabic writing exercises

المؤلفون: Lahlali, El Mustapha

نوع المادة: eBook.

الموضوعات: Arabic language--Rhetoric, Arabic language--Written Arabic

تصنيفات: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Writing / General, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Arabic, REFERENCE / Writing Skills

الوصف: This book could easily be called'A Guide for the Modern Muslim', for someone to whom the sentiments of his or her ancestors resonate but who cannot accept the canonised formulas of a stultified education. Charfi spells out what, for him, is the essential message of Islam, followed by a history of its unfolding through the person of the Prophet Muhammad, who was a visionary seeking to change the ideals, attitudes and behaviours of the society in which he lived. The message and its history are delineated as two separate things, conflated by tradition. Charfi's reflections cross those horizons where few Muslim scholars have dared until now to tread. He confronts with great lucidity those difficult questions with which Muslims are struggling, attempting to reconsider them from a moral and political perspective that is independent of the frameworks produced by tradition.'

المؤلفون: Sharafī, ʻAbd al-Majīd, Filali-Ansary, Abdou, Ahmed, Sikeena Karmali

نوع المادة: eBook.

الموضوعات: Islam--Essence, genius, nature, Islam--History

تصنيفات: RELIGION / Islam / History, RELIGION / Islam / General

Alternate Title: Lot's Offer of His Daughters to His People in the Torah and the Qur'an: A Comparative Study in Two Parts (Part Two). (English)

المؤلفون: الدوسري, عائض بن سعد

المصدر: Journal of Qur'anic Studies; Feb2017, Vol. 19 Issue 1, p210-160, 51p

Abstract (English): The story of Lot is one of many shared by the Qur'an and the Torah, and Lot's offering of his two daughters to his people is presented in a similar way in the two Books. This article compares the status of Lot in the Qur'an and Torah, and explores the moral dimensions of his character, and what scholars of the two religions make of this story. The significance of the episode in which Lot offers his daughters to his people lies in the similarities and differences of the accounts given in the two Books and the fact that, in both the past and the present, this story has presented moral problems and criticism has been leveled at Lot. Context is crucial in understanding this story, and exploration of the ways that Lot and his people are presented is also useful in terms of comparative studies of the two scriptures. This article is divided into three sections: the first explores the depiction of Lot in the two texts, the second explores his moral limitations, and the third discusses the interpretations of various exegetes and scholars of the two Books. Although there are similarities between the Qur'anic and Torah accounts of this episode, it is read differently by scholars from the two religions because of the different contexts of the respective accounts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract (Arabic): وردتْ قصص كثيرة في التو ا رة والقرآن بشكلٍ متشابهٍ في مواضعَ عديدة، ومختلفة، ومنها قصة لوطٍ مع قومِهِ. ومن النصوص المتشابهة في الكتابين: ما يتناول حادثةُ تقديم لوط ابنتيه لقومه، حيث وردت متقاربة إلى حدٍ كبيرٍ. وفي هذا البحث سنجري مقارنة بين مكانة لوطٍ في سياق الكتابين وحدوده الأخلاقيَّة، ثم بيان أقوال شُ اَّ رح وعلماء الكتابين في تلك الحادثة. والجزء المشترك من القصة قد أثار ولا ي ا زل يُثير إشكالات وانتقادات أخلاقيَّة وُجِهَتْ إلى لوطٍ قديمًا وحديثًا. ومن أجل فهم متكامل لهذه الجزئَية من المهم معرفة سياق القصة الكاملة للوط وأهله وقومه. وسنتناول هذا الموضوع في ثلاثة مباحث: صورة لوط في الكتاب المقدس والقرآن الكريم، والحدود الأخلاقيَّة للوط في اليهوديَّة والمسيحيَّة والإسلام، وأخي اً ر تفسير الآية عند علماء اليهودية والمسيحيَّة والإسلام. ومع التشابه الذي يظهر في هذا الجزء من القصة في الكتاب المقدس والقرآن، إلا أنه سيختلف معناه بشكلٍ كبير بسبب سياق الحدود الأخلاقية الذي يظهر في قصة لوطٍ في الكتابين، والذي استنبط منه العلماء آ ا رءهم. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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المؤلفون: Sad Al-Dawsar, ʿĀʾiḍ B.

المصدر: Journal of Qur'anic Studies; Oct2016, Vol. 18 Issue 3, p161-224, 64p

مصطلحات موضوعية: TORAH scrolls, LITURGICAL objects in Judaism, TALMUDIC academies, SCHOLARS

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مستخلص: The story of Lot is one of many shared by the Qur'an and the Torah, and Lot's offer of his two daughters to his people is presented in a similar way in the two books. This article compares the status of Lot in the Qur'an and Torah, and explores the moral dimensions of his character, and what scholars of the two religions make of this story. The significance of the episodes in which Lot offers his daughters to his people lies in the similarities and differences of the accounts given in the two books and the fact that, in both the past and the present, this story has presented moral problems and criticism has been leveled at Lot. Context is crucial in understanding this story, and exploration of the ways in which Lot and his people are presented is also useful in terms of comparative studies of the two scriptures. This article is divided into three sections: the first explores the depiction of Lot in the two texts, the second explores his moral limitations, and the third discusses the interpretations of various exegetes and scholars of the two books. Although there are similarities between the Qur'anic and Talmudic accounts of this episode, it is read differently by scholars from the two religions because of the different contexts of the respective accounts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

: Copyright of Journal of Qur'anic Studies is the property of Edinburgh University Press and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)