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A study of the career and writings of Zaynab Fawwaz (c.1860-1914) an early feminist thinker and writer in Egypt. It focuses on her newspaper essays, novels, poetry, and her play which was the first to be published by a female author in Arabic.
A comprehensive history of Egyptian archeology, from the origins of the field during the Napoleonic era to World War I.
The historical development and functions of legal maxims have not been studied within their context in contemporary scholarship. Especially in studies which examine legal maxims as a genre, this is mostly done in a bibliographical and descriptive manner. This leaves the question of why this genre has emerged in Islamic law. This study examines the legal maxims in terms of conceptual and historical development and their application. It analyses the subject from a viewpoint of cause-and-effect rather than examining it in a descriptive manner. Both handwritten manuscripts and printed legal maxims titles have been used for writing this book and the subjects are mostly examined based on primary s...
Yusuf Karim majestically ruled the tennis courts in Mombasa and remained unbeaten from the age of 16 to 42 (1951–1977). He also played high-level cricket and volleyball. His son Aasif effortlessly continued in his father's footsteps. The youngest prodigy, Irfan, is already shining in the cricket circles, both locally and internationally. It is very rare in sporting history for three generations to represent their country in international sports. This book takes us on a journey from where it all began.
In this study of the rise of modern Arabic, Ayalon examines 19th-century linguistic change in the Eastern Arab world, describing how the language responded to the infiltration of Western politics, technology, and culture. Focusing on the realm of political discourse, Ayalon looks at a wide array of evidence--local chronicles, travel accounts, translations of European writings, Arab political treatises, newspapers and periodicals, and dictionaries--to show how shifts in the color, tone, and meaning of the Arab vocabulary reflected a new socio-political and cultural reality.