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History of Criticism

History of Criticism

Histories of Literature

"Influence"

Period/Heritage

 

HISTORY OF CRITICISM                                                         

  • `Abbas,  Ihsan,  Ta'rikh  al-naqd al-adabi `inda al-`Arab,  Beirut: 1971
  • Ajami, Mansour, The Neckveins of Winter: The Controversy over Natural and Artificial Poetry in Medieval Arabic Literary Criticism, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1984.
  • Al-`Ashmawi,  M.   Zaki,  Qadaya  al-naqd  al-adabi  wa-al-balagha, Alexandria, 1967
  • Badawi,  Mustafa Muhammad,  "Commitment in Modern  Arabic  Poetry," Cahiers  d'histoire mondiale (Journal of World History 14 (1972), 858-. 
  • Bonebakker, S., :Notes on some old manuscripts of the Adab al-katib of Ibn Qutayba, the Kitab al-sina`atyan of Al-`askari & Al-Mathal al-sa'ir of Diya' al-din ibn Athir," Oriens  13-14  (1961),  159-174. 
  • Brugman,  J.,  An  Introduction  to  the  History  of Modern Arabic Literature in Egypt, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1984,
  • van Gelder,  G.J.H.,  Beyond the Line:  Classical  Arabic  Literary Critics  on  the  Coherence and Unity of the Poem,  Leiden:  E.J.  Brill, 1982. 
  • Glubb,   Faris,  "Palestinian  Resistance  Poetry,  its  Special  Character," Islamic Review Nov.-Dec. 1969, 11- . 
  • Mandur, Muhammad, Al-Naqd al-Manhaji `inda al-`Arab, Cairo: 1969. 
  • Sharaf, Hifni M., Al-Naqd al-adabi `inda al-`Arab, Cairo: 1971. 
  • Somekh,  Sasson,  "Lughat  al-naqd  al-adabi  qabla mi'at `am," Al- Karmil 10 (1989), 73-82. 
  • Staif,  A.N.,  "The Question of Foreign Influences in Modern Arabic  Literary  Criticism,"  Journal  of  Arabic Literature XVI (1985), 109-118. 

HISTORIES OF LITERATURE

  • Allen, Roger,  "Arabic Literature--Then," Nimrod 24 no.  2 (Spring- Summer 1981), 8-22. 
  • Berque, Jacques, Cultural expression in Arab society today, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1978. 
  • Brugman,  J.,  An Introduction to  the  History  of  Modern  Arabic Literature in Egypt, Leiden: E.J.  Brill, 1984.  Al-Disuqi, `Umar, Fi al-adab al-hadith 2 vols., Cairo:  Dar al-Fikr al-`Arabi, 1947, 1950. 
  • ----------------, Nash`at al-nathr al-hadith wa-tatawwuruhu, Cairo: Ma`had al-dirasat al-`Arabiyya al-`aliya, 1962. 
  • Filshtinsky, I., Arabic Literature, Moscow: Nauka Publishing House, 1966. 
  • Gibb,  H.A.R.,  "Studies  in  Contemporary  Arabic  Literature," in Studies on the Civilization of Islam ed.  Stanford Shaw &  William Polk, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1962, 245-319. 
  • Goodman,  Leon  E.,  "The  sacred and the secular:  rival themes in Arabic literature," Annual Lecture Irene Kalmos  Chair  in  Arabic Literature 1988. 
  • Haykal,  Ahmad,  Tatawwur al-adab al-hadith fi Misr min awa'il  al- qarn al-tasi` `ashar ila qiyam al-harb al-kubra al-thaniya, Cairo: Dar al-Ma`arif, 1971. 
  • Haywood, John A., Modern Arabic Literature 1800-1970, London:  Lund Humphries, 1971. 
  • Le Gassick, Trevor,  "Arabic Literature in Modern Times," Nimrod 24 no. 2 (Spring-Summer 1981), 23-32. 
  • Pantucek,  Svetozar,  La  litterature  algerienne moderne,  Prague: Academia, 1969. 
  • Peres,  Henri,  La  litterature  arabe  et  l'Islam par les textes, Algiers: Imprimerie Jules Carbonel Reunies, 1959. 
  • Shaikh,  Khalil,  Der  Teufel in der modernen arabischen Literatur: Die  Reception  eines  europaischen  Motivs  in   der   arabischen Belletristik,  Dramatik und Poesie des 19.  und 20.  Jahrhunderts, Berlin: Klaus Schwarz, 1986.
  •  Snir, Reuven, Modern Arabic Literature: a functional dynamic model, Toronto: York Press, 2001. 

"INFLUENCE"

  •  `Abbas, Ihsan, Malamih Yunaniyya fi al-adab al-`Arabi, Beirut, 1977.       
  •  Allen, Roger, "Arabic Literature and the nobel Prize," World Literature Today Spring 1988, 201-3.
  •  Menocal, Maria Rosa, The Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History: A Forgotten heritage, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1987. 
  •  Staif, A.N., "The Question of Foreign Influences in Modern Arabic Literary Criticism,"  Journal
  •   of Arabic Literature XVI (1985), 109-118.
  •  Stetkevych, Jaroslav, "The Confluence of Arabic and Hebrew Literature," Journal of Near Eastern Studies 32 (1973),  216-22.

PERIOD/HERITAGE

  • Fusul I, 1 Problem of heritage IV, 2 Poetic heritage VI, 1 & 2 Our critical heritage
  • Abu Deeb,  Kamal,  "Cultural creation in a fragmented society,"  in The  Next  Arab  Decade:  alternative futures ed.  Hisham Sharabi, Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 160-81. 
  • "Al-Adab  al-`Arabi  min  al-turath ila al-mu`asara," Al-Mawqif al- adabi 9-10 (Jan.-Feb. 1972), 69-101. 
  • Al-`Alawi.  Hadi,  "Kayf naqif min al-turath al-Islami`" Mawaqif 11 (Sept.-Oct. 1970), 56-62. 
  • ---------------, "Al-Fikr al-`Arabi fi al-`ishrin `aman al-akhira,"  Mawaqif 27 (Spr. 1974), 97-107. 
  • ---------------, "Naqd al-din wa-al-siyasa fi al-adab al-`Arabi al- qadim," Mawaqif 41-42 (Spr.-Sum. 1981), 141-153. 
  • ---------------,  "Muqtatafat  naqdiyya  min al-turath," Mawaqif 43  (Aut. 1981), 60-81. 
  • Al-`Arwi (Laroui), `Abdallah,  The crisis of the Arab Intellectual:  Traditionalism  or  Historicism,  tr.  Diarmid Cammell,  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976. 
  • Barakat,  Salim Muhammad,  "Zawahir al-iltizam fi al-adab al-`Arabi al-qadim," Al-Mawqif al-adabi 3 (Jul. 1971), 99-110. 
  • Berque, Jacques, Cultural expression in Arab society today, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1978. 
  • Bosworth,  C.  Edmund,  The Medieval Islamic Underworld:  The  Banu Sasan in Arabic Society and Literature, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1976. 
  • Bravmann,  M.M.,  The Spiritual Background of Early Islam,  Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1972. 
  • Cachia,  Pierre,  "In a glass  darkly:  The  faintness  of  Islamic Inspiration  in  Modern  Arabic  Literature," Die Welt des Islams,  XXIII-XXIV (1984), 26-44. 
  • ---------------,  "Freedom from Clerical Control:  the Portrayal of Men  of  Religion  in Modern Arabic Literature," Journal of Arabic Literature Vol. 26 nos 1 & 2 (June 1995): 175-85. 
  • Darraj, Faysal, "Mawt al-muthaqqaf," Akhbar al-adab 223 (19 Oct. 1997): 14-15.
  • Dayf, Shawqi, Al-adab al-`arabi al-mu`asir fi Misr, Cairo:  Dar al-  Ma`arif, 1957. 
  • Al-Disuqi, `Umar, Fi al-adab al-hadith 2 vols., Cairo:  Dar al-Fikr   al-`Arabi, 1947, 1950. 
  • Hafiz,  Sabri,  "Istishraf al-hazima ba`d al-naksa," Al-Adab,  Oct.   1969. 
  • Hallaq, Boutros,  "Love and the Birth of Modern Arabic Literature,"   in  Love  and  Sexuality  in  Modern Arabic Literature ed.  Allen,   Kilpatrick & de Moor, London: Saqi Books, 1994, pp. 16-23. 
  • Haywood, John A., Modern Arabic Literature 1800-1970, London:  Lund   Humphries, 1971. 
  • Hijazi,  Ahmad `Abd al-Mu`ti,  "Mulahazat hawla qasida qadima," Al-  Mawqif al-adabi 2 (June 1971), 53-60. 
  • Homerin, T.  Emil, "Echoes of a Thirsty Owl: Death and Afterlife in   Pre-Islamic  Poetry,"  Journal  of  Near Eastern Studies 44 no.  3   (July 1985), 165-184. 
  • Hourani, Albert, Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age, London:  Oxford   University Press, 1962. 
  • Khafaji, Muhammad `Abd al-Mun`im, Al-Hayat al-adabiyya fi Misr: al-`asr  al-Mamluki wa-al-`Uthmani,  Cairo:  Maktabat al-Kulliyya al-  Azhariyya, 1984. 
  • Khouri,  Mounah A.,  "Criticism and  the  Heritage:  Adonis  as  an   Advocate  of a New Arab Culture," Arab Civilization Challenges and   responses: Studies in Honor of Dr.  Constantine Zurayk ed.  George   N.  Atiyeh and Ibrahim M.  Oweiss, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1988. 
  • Kilpatrick, Hilary, “Brockelman, Kahhala 7 CO.: reference works on the Arabic literature of early
  •  Ottoman Syria,” Middle Eastern Literatures Vol. 7 no. 1 (Jan. 2004): 33-52.
  • Jabra,  Jabra Ibrahim,  "Modern Arabic Literature  and  the  West,"   Journal of Arabic Literature II (1971), 76-91. 
  • Jacobi,  Renate,  "Theme  and  Variations in Umayyad Ghazal Poetry,   Journal of Arabic Literature XXIII part 2 (1992): 109-19. 
  • Al-Jadir, Mahmud `Abdallah,  "Hajis al-khulud fi al-shi`r al-`Arabi   qabla al-islam," Afaq `Arabiyya Vol.  11 no.  10 (Dec.  1986), 96-  105. 
  • Al-Jayyusi,  Salma,  "Two types  of  hero  in  contemporary  Arabic   Literature," Mundus artium X NO. 1 (1977), 35-49. 
  • -------------------------,  "Freedom and Compulsion:  the poetry of   the  'seventies,"  Journal of Arabic Literature Vol.  26 nos 1 & 2   (June 1995): 105-19. 
  • Al-Kubaysi, Tarrad, "Al-Shi`r al-`Arabi al-jadid...  mumkinan," Al- Mawqif al-adabi April 1973, 128-142. 
  • Lyall, Sir Charles,  "The Relation of the Old Arabian Poetry to the Hebrew  Literature  of  the  Old  Testament," Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 1914, 253-66. 
  • Al-Mani`,  Najib,  "Kayf  nuza`zi`  qurunana  al-wusta`" Mawaqif 23 )Sept.-Oct. 1972), 8-12. 
  • Al-Maqdisi, Antun, "Fi ma`na al-turath," Mawaqif 11 (Sept.- Oct.  1970), 17-40. 
  • Muruwwa, Husayn, "Al-Turath wa al-wad` al-rahin," Mawaqif ii (Sept.-Oct. 1970),  41-55. 
  • ---------------, Turathuna kayfa na`rifuhu,  Beirut:  Mu'assassat al-Abhath al- `Arabiyya,  1985. 
  • Mustafa, Ghulam Hafiz, Religious Trends in Pre-Islamic Arabia, Bombay, 1968. 
  • Najm, Muhammad Yusuf, Fi tariq al-asala wa-al-ibtikar, Beirut: Dar Sadir, 1985. 
  • Qalamawi, Suhayr, "The impact of tradition on modern Arabic literature," Mundus artium X no. 1 (1977), 100-106. 
  • al-Qitt, `Abd al-Qadir, Fi al-shi`r al-Islami wa-al-Umawi, Cairo, 1975. 
  • ----------------------, Al-Ittijah wa-wijdani fi al-shi`r al-`Arabi al-Mu`asir, Cairo, 1978. 
  • ----------------------, Fi al-adab al-`Arabi al-hadith, Cairo, 1978. 
  • Al-Razzaz,  Nabila,  "Al-Kalima fi al-shi`r al-`Arabi al-hadith," Al-Mawqif al- adabi 2 (June 1971), 61-68. 
  • al-Sa`afin, Ibrahim,  Madrasat al-Ihya' wa-al-Turath:  Dirasa fi athar al-shi`r al-`arabi al-qadim `ala madrasat al-ihya' fi Misr, n.p.: Dar al-Andalus, 1981. 
  • Safan, Kamil, Al-Turath:  wajibuna nahwaha, Cairo:  Maktabat al-Anglu-Misriyya, 1983. 
  • Sham`a,  Khaldun, "Zawahir fi taqyim al-ittijahat al-adabiyya al-mu`asira," Al- Mawqif al-adabi April 1973, 112-119. 
  • Al-Sharif, Jalal Faruq, "Hawla al-usul al-tabaqiyya wa-al-tarikhiyya li-zahirat al-shi`r al-hadith," Al-Mawqif al-adabi Sept. 1972, 3-12. 
  • Snir, Reuven, "The `world upsidedown' in modern Arabic literature: new literary renditions of an antique religious topos," Edebiyat NS 5 no. 1 (1994): 51-76. 
  • ------------, "Synchronic and Diachronic Dynamics in Modern Arabic Literature," in Studies in Canonical and Popular Arabic  Literature,  New  Brunswick:  York Press, 1998, 87-121.
  • Somekh,  Sasson,  "Biblical  Echoes  in  Modern  Arabic Literature," Journal of Arabic Literature Vol. 26 nos 1 & 2 (June 1995): 186-200. 
  • `Usfur,  Jabir,  "Laysa hunal turath,  bal turathat," Afaq  `Arabiyya  7  (Jul. 1990), 122-25. 
  • Zaki, Ahmad Kamal, "Al-turath al-adabi bayna al-luzum wa-al-takhatti," Majallat Kulliyat al-Adab, Jami`at al-Malik Sa`ud, Vol. 11 no. 2 (1984) 415-460.