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Your Word Is a Lamp to My Feet and a Light to My Path
An unforgettable and influential story of a Middle Eastern woman in search of her identity in this world, who has taken charge in a religious male-dominated society in order to properly care for her husband and daughter who were battling cancer. Their trials encouraged and strengthened her to challenge meaningless traditions and hurtful gossip. Through the power of their faith, she and her family were able to overcome all the trials that came their way. In doing so, they affected and changed lives, many of whom they never met.
Arabic Humanities, Islamic Thought
This volume brings together studies that explore the richness of the Arabic literary tradition and of Islamic intellectual life, from the beginnings of Islam to the present. The contributors cover an unusually wide range of subjects, including such topics as guile in the Quran, marriage in Islamic law, early esoterica, commentaries on al-Ḥarīrī’s Maqamāt, Hellenistic philosophy in Arabic, medieval music and song, scurrilous poetry, Arabic rhetoric, cursing, the modern social and legal history of the Middle East, al-Kharrat’s modernist project, and contemporary Islamic thought and responses to it. The volume’s range reflects the enormous breadth of Everett Rowson’s scholarship an...
The Maqámát of Badí' al-Zamán al-Hamadhání
The triple aim of Hamadhání in this work, first translated into English in 1915, appears to have been to amuse, to interest and to instruct; and this explains why, in spite of the inherent difficulty of a work of this kind composed primarily with a view to the rhetorical effect upon the learned and the great, there is scarcely a dull chapter in the fifty-one maqámát or discourses. The author essayed, throughout these dramatic discourses, to illustrate the life and language both of the denizens of the desert and the dwellers in towns, and to give examples of the jargon and slang of thieves and robbers as well as the lucubrations of the learned and the conversations of the cultured.
