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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (4): 455–456.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Alex J. Novikoff Parables of Coercion: Conversion and Knowledge at the End of Islamic Spain . By Kimmel Seth . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2015 . 239 p. Copyright © 2017 University of Oregon 2017 BOOK...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (3): 363–365.
Published: 01 September 2014
...James Watt Islam and the English Enlightenment . By Garcia Humberto . Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press , 2012 . xviii, 346 p © 2014 by University of Oregon 2014 book reviews / 363 pia it can produce...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (1): 1–21.
Published: 01 January 2010
... towards Mizrahi Jews. Indeed, it was Bialik—the institution and the literary symbol—who served three generations of Zionist educators devoted to writing a new Jewish history from which the Jews who lived in Arab and Islamic lands during the last few centuries were erased. University of Oregon 2010...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (3): 345–362.
Published: 01 September 2013
... the perspective of a modern Hebrew poet and Orientalist scholar, Elhanan Yehuda Kron, who travels from Palestine to Berlin to pursue his research on the Islamic origins of Jewish mysticism. Through Kron 1 s experiences in Berlin in the 1930s, the novel calls attention to how the origin of modern secular Hebrew...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (2): 114–131.
Published: 01 June 2018
...; ʿāmmiyya , from al-ʿāmma , the common people. Long-ninth-century Arab-Islamic thought defined al-ʿāmma as a “middle” class, or its language and that of al-khāṣṣa (the elite) as shades of one Arabic, converging at an ideal midpoint. I trace echoes in late-nineteenth-century Algerian, Syro-Lebanese...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 March 2024
... to the philosophers of the Islamic world was irrelevant for the poetic. This is because they understood mythos not as “plot” but as referring, on the one hand, to the fictionality and fantasticness of poetic metaphor, which they deemed inessential for the success of poetry; on the other hand, they understood mythos...
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Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (3): 242–255.
Published: 01 June 2002
... Center for Folklore Studies Conference, Going Native: Recruitment, Conversation, and Identification in Cultural Research . Columbus, Ohio, May 20 -22, 1999 . Boyd, Jean. The Caliph's Sister : Nana Asma'u, 1793-1865, Teacher, Poet, and Islamic Leader . London and Totowa, NJ : F. Cass, 1989...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (3): 272–297.
Published: 01 September 2019
... as a translator from Arabic, Turkish, and Persian into Russian for the imperial administration, even as he criticized the specific modalities and practices of Russian colonialism. His relationship to Islamic culture and heritage was as pluralistic as was his critical engagement with the Russian imperial project...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (3): 361–363.
Published: 01 September 2014
.... By the fifteenth century, the Iberian Christian apologists Juan Andrés and Pablo de Santa María, the former a con- verted Islamic jurist from Xátiva and the latter a prominent Jew from Burgos, among many others, had combined aspects from both Paul’s and Augustine’s conversion stories. This intermingling...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (4): 293–312.
Published: 01 September 2006
... and Turning: Islam and English Drama, 1579-1624 . Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2005 . Busia, Abena P.A. “Silencing Sycorax: On African Colonial Discourse and the Unvoiced Female.” Cultural Critique 14 (Winter 1989 -90): 81 -104. Chase, Kenneth. Firearms: A Global History . Cambridge...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (1): 5–14.
Published: 01 March 2013
... Buell 19 – 38 . Print . Berman Jacob . American Arabesque: Arabs and Islam in the Nineteenth-Century Imaginary . New York : New York UP , 2012 . Print . Civantos Christina . Between Argentines and Arabs: Argentine Orientalism, Arab Immigrants, and the Writing of Identity...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (4): 460–462.
Published: 01 December 2020
... on different valences for Moroccan writers than for their Spanish colonizers. According to Calderwood, al-Andalus was more a way of understanding the medieval conflict between Islam and Christianity as a prefiguration of modern European colonialism in the region. Calderwood’s reading of the works of Mufaddal...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (3): 365–368.
Published: 01 September 2014
... reviews / 365 ers considered here similarly distance themselves from the Islamic republicanism that they elsewhere invoke. In his introduction to Chronicle of the Cid (1808), for example, Southey presents the prophet Mohammed not as a republican but as an “impostor” and empire- builder, who...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (3): 285–305.
Published: 01 September 2013
... , 2009 . Print . Asad Talal . Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity . Stanford : Stanford UP , 2003 . Print . ———. Genealogies of Religion: Disciplines and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins UP , 1993 . Print . Augustine...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (4): 421–441.
Published: 01 December 2021
... the book). In the act of kissing the book, which echoes a common practice in Islam of kissing the cover of the Quran when the reader has finished with it, the poet seals herself into the text and embodies this physical relationship in the lines (“In the page / I enclose myself / and with it, such a shroud...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (4): 271–292.
Published: 01 September 2006
.... “Islam and the Construction of Europe.” Muslims in the Margin: Political Responses to the Presence of Islam in Western Europe . Ed. W.A.R. Shadid and P.S. Van Koningsveld. Kampen, Netherlands: Kok Pharos, 1996 . 15 -51. Barbieri, Giammaria. Dell'origine della poesia rimata . Ed. Girolamo...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (3): 255–269.
Published: 01 September 2021
... more than his desire to place Spain at the center of European modernity, without any genuine regard for their culture, since he never learned Arabic and had no kind words to spare for Islam or its prophet ( Dainotto 130–31 ). That may well be the case, but for my purposes the important thing...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (3): 265–284.
Published: 01 September 2013
... of Salman Rushdie.” Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam . Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins UP , 1993 . Print . Masa'n ‘Ashara . Dream TV Channel . 9 Nov. 2010 . Web. < http:www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBGMRZO6mso >. 15 April, 2013...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (1): 73–92.
Published: 01 March 2012
... 15 ( Fall 1986 ): 65 – 88 . Print . Kashmiri Tabassum . La = Rashid . Lahore : Nigarishat , 1994 . Print . Knysch Alexander D . Ibn ‘Arabi in the Later Islamic Tradition: The Making of a Polemical Image in Medieval Islam . Albany : State U of New York P , 1999...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (2): 153–169.
Published: 01 March 2006
... Son the Fanatic.” Love in a Blue Time . London: Faber and Faber, 1997 . Kurten, Marina. “Negotiating Identities: Expressions of `Culture' in British Migrant Literature.” Atlantic Literary Review 3 ( 2002 ): 47 -55. Lewis, Philip. Islamic Britain: Religion, Politics and Identity among...