Download or read book The Thirsty Arabia written by William Percy and published by Anaphora Literary Press. This book was released on 2023-05-02 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A closeted first attempt to present the complexities and elegance of the Islamic faith and the prophet Muhammad on the English stage. Thirsty Arabia was written over a century before the first English translation of the Qur’an was published. Despite this shortfall in primary sources about Islam, this comedy incorporates with unbiased research a wealth of theological and cultural details. Information flowed into Britain from Muslim countries alongside general trade in goods after Pope Pius V excommunicated Elizabeth I in 1570, but trade was halted shortly after this play was written in 1603. The narrative is launched when Muhammad declares he will destroy all mortals in Arabia for their sins in forty days with a drought. Muhammad’s angelic council objects that there might be good people in the region worth saving, so Muhammad allows Harut and Marut to travel across Arabia disguised as humans to attempt to find any do-gooders to save Arabia. The main romantic entanglement across this plot is the unsuccessful courtship of Marquess of the Deserts Epimenides by most of the eligible bachelors, including two imams (Caleb and Tubal), the wealthy magician astrologer Geber, the two disguised angels (Harut and Marut) and Muhammad himself. While most of the characters are distracted with love, the Arabian people are dying of thirst, and fraudsters such as Çavuş work to capitalize on this desperation with tricks such as selling water-licenses. Spirits, magic, time travel and fortune telling are used to gain favor and preferment, while angels and good spirits punish evil-doers. The Aristotelian “Square of Opposition” in a logic game the angels play with Muhammad is only one of the many educational and entertaining devices. The poetic, wooing love songs, and witty refusals alone are sufficient for readers to explore the surprises along this narrative. “An extraordinary, inherently fascinating and entertaining drama that is enhanced with expert notations and commentaries by the editor and translator Anna Faktorovich… A unique and recommended addition to community, college, and university library English Drama & Literature collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists.” —Midwest Book Review, Clint Travis (March 2021) Plot and Staging Text Terms, References, Questions, Exercises

Download or read book The Thirsty Sword written by Peter Heath and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the popular epic of Arabic storytelling by focusing on a particular example, The Life Story of 'Antar, purporting to recount the life of the famous pre-Islamic Arab poet and warrior. Considers the poem in the context of Arabic oral tradition and the storytelling of other Islamic peoples, in

Download or read book The Penetration of Arabia written by David George Hogarth and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Record of the development of western knowledge concerning the Arabian peninsula.

Download or read book Wanderings in Arabia written by Charles Montagu Doughty and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The History of Arabia written by Andrew Crichton and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The History of Arabia Ancient and Modern written by Andrew Crichton and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book History of Arabia Ancient and Modern written by Andrew Crichton (Historian.) and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History of Arabia Ancient and Modern written by Andrew Crichton and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Specimens of Arabian poetry The second edition written by Joseph Dacre CARLYLE and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Parallel Bible PR Am NKJV written by Hendrickson Publishers and published by Hendrickson Publishers. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 2145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complementary translations encourage in-depth study of the Scriptures Bible study leaders, Scripture students, preachers, and people curious to see their favorite biblical texts in different translations will benefit from this volume. The same set of verses from both the NKJV and the Amplified Bible appear in side-by-side columns on each page, making for effortless verse comparison. And, readers will appreciate this edition's easy-to-read type, which is larger than that used in other parallel Bibles. FEATURES - 9.4 point type - Black letter text NEW KING JAMES VERSION Completely updated, this translation remains faithful to the accuracy and beauty of the KJV, yet uses contemporary, readable language. AMPLIFIED BIBLE Displaying additional words that communicate shades of meaning in the original text, this translation expands the reader's understanding of the Scriptures.

Download or read book Arabian Nights written by and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia Volume 1 Poetry of ad Dindan written by Marcel Kurpershoek and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-06-27 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work presents the complete collection of oral poetry by ad-Dindān, a bedouin poet of the Duwāsir tribe in southern Najd, transcribed and translated on the basis of taped recordings. The text is representative of a poetic tradition which has remained remarkably close to the desert poetry of the early classical age. An extensive glossary, including detailed cross-references to the classical Arabic vocabulary, completes this edition. The introduction describes Dindān's somewhat anomalous position in local society as a result of his stubborn attachment to nomadism, his fierce artistic temper, and his unreconstructed bedouin ethos. It also discusses the composition of oral poetry, the dīwān's themes and its place in the Najdi tradition, the impact of literacy on the poet's oral work, and the prosodic and linguistic features of the text.

Download or read book The Arabian Nights Entertainments written by Edward William Lane and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-03-01 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Download or read book Shakespeare and the Arab World written by Katherine Hennessey and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2019-07-17 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a variety of perspectives on the history and role of Arab Shakespeare translation, production, adaptation and criticism, this volume explores both international and locally focused Arab/ic appropriations of Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets. In addition to Egyptian and Palestinian theatre, the contributors to this collection examine everything from an Omani performance in Qatar and an Upper Egyptian television series to the origin of the sonnets to an English-language novel about the Lebanese civil war. Addressing materials produced in several languages from literary Arabic (fuṣḥā) and Egyptian colloquial Arabic (‘ammiyya) to Swedish and French, these scholars and translators vary in discipline and origin, and together exhibit the diversity and vibrancy of this field.

Download or read book Specimens of Arabian Poetry from the Earliest Time to the Extinction of the Kaliphat written by Joseph Dacre Carlyle and published by . This book was released on 1796 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: