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Love, Death, Fame
Poetry and Lore from the Emirati Oral Tradition
Love, Death, Fame features the poetry of al-Mayidi ibn Zahir, who has been embraced as the earliest poet in what would later become the United Arab Emirates. Although little is known about his life, he is the subject of a sizeable body of folk legend and is thought to have lived in the seventeenth century, in the area now called the Emirates.
ISBN-13: 9781479806577 (Hardback)
Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: MONTHLY REVIEW PRESS
al-Mayidi ibn Zahir, Marcel Kurpershoek
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Local release date: 19/02/2022
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Categories: Poetry [DC]Anthologies (non-poetry) [DQ]

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Historical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Literature
Historical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Literature contains a chronology, introduction, bibliography, and over 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries on authors, literary and historical developments, trends, genres, and concepts that played a central role in the evolution of modern Chinese literature.
ISBN-13: 9781538130056 (Hardback)
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Imprint: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Li-hua Ying
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Local release date: 15/11/2021
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Categories: Dictionaries [CBD]Anthologies (non-poetry) [DQ]

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Kalilah and Dimnah
Fables of Virtue and Vice
Timeless fables of loyalty and betrayal Like Aesop's Fables, Kalilah and Dimnah is a collection designed not only for moral instruction, but also for the entertainment of readers. The stories, which originated in the Sanskrit Panchatantra and Mahabharata, were adapted, augmented, and translated into Arabic by the scholar and state official Ibn ......
ISBN-13: 9781479806539 (Hardback)
Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Ibn al-Muqaffa', Michael Fishbein, Michael Fishbein, James E. Montgomery
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Local release date: 02/11/2021
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Categories: Anthologies (non-poetry) [DQ]Middle East [1FB]

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Contemporary Italian Diversity in Critical and Fictional Narratives
Contemporary Italian Diversity in Critical and Fictional Narratives brings together creative literary works and scholarly articles. Both address the changes and challenges to identity formation in an Italy marked by the migrations, populism, nationalism, and xenophobia, and analyze diversity and the affirmation of belonging.
ISBN-13: 9781683933144 (Hardback)
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Imprint: FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON UNIVERSITY PRESS
Marie Orton, Graziella Parati, Ron Kubati, Ashna Ali, Ubax Cristina Ali Farah, Basir Ahang, Adrian Bravi, Simone Brioni, Jennifer Burns, Ryan Calabretta-Sajder
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Local release date: 26/10/2021
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Categories: Anthologies (non-poetry) [DQ]Literature: history & criticism [DS]Literary studies: poetry & poets [DSC]Italy [1DST]

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The Book of Travels
Volume Two
The adventures of the man who created Aladdin The Book of Travels is Hanna Diyab's remarkable first-person account of his travels as a young man from his hometown of Aleppo to the court of Versailles and back again, which forever linked him to one of the most popular pieces of world literature, the Thousand and One Nights. Diyab, a ......
ISBN-13: 9781479806300 (Hardback)
Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Hanna Diyab, Johannes Stephan, Elias Muhanna, Paulo Lemos Horta
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Local release date: 03/07/2021
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Categories: Anthologies (non-poetry) [DQ]Middle Eastern history [HBJF1]Middle East [1FB]

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The Book of Travels
Volume One
The adventures of the man who created Aladdin The Book of Travels is Hanna Diyab's remarkable first-person account of his travels as a young man from his hometown of Aleppo to the court of Versailles and back again, which forever linked him to one of the most popular pieces of world literature, the Thousand and One Nights. Diyab, a ......
ISBN-13: 9781479892303 (Hardback)
Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Hanna Diyab, Johannes Stephan, Elias Muhanna, Yasmine Seale
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Local release date: 03/07/2021
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Categories: Anthologies (non-poetry) [DQ]Middle Eastern history [HBJF1]Middle East [1FB]

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Shakespeare through Letters
This book offers an innovative pathway into Shakespeare's plays-the letters, although small, impact narrative development, reveal character, and enhance the play's tone. The author posits that the letters constitute texts that warrant interpretation, as they delineate the intersection of oral and literate cultures.
ISBN-13: 9781793631688 (Hardback)
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Imprint: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
David M. Bergeron
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Local release date: 13/12/2020
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Categories: Anthologies (non-poetry) [DQ]Shakespeare studies & criticism [DSGS]United Kingdom, Great Britain [1DBK]Ireland [1DBR]

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Arabian Romantic
Poems on Bedouin Life and Love
Scenes from Arabian life at the turn of the twentieth century--
ISBN-13: 9781479804405 (Paperback)
Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
'Abdallah ibn Sbayyil, Marcel Kurpershoek, Annmarie Drury
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Local release date: 01/12/2020
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Categories: Poetry [DC]Anthologies (non-poetry) [DQ]Middle East [1FB]

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The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
A new translation of a foundational text of yoga philosophy--
ISBN-13: 9781479804139 (Hardback)
Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Abu Rayhan al-Biruni, Mario Kozah
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Local release date: 05/11/2020
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Categories: Anthologies (non-poetry) [DQ]Philosophy of religion [HRAB]Middle East [1FB]