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Transforming loss into beauty : essays on Arabic literature and culture in honor of Magda Al-Nowaihi / edited by Marle Hammond, Dana Sajdi.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Al-Nowaihi, Magda M.
- Arabic literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (431 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cairo ; New York : American University In Cairo Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The contributors to this wide-ranging work of scholarship and analysis include mentors, colleagues, friends, and students of the late Magda al-Nowaihi, an outstanding scholar of Middle East studies whose diverse interests and energy inspired numerous colleagues. The book's first part is devoted to Arabic elegy, the subject of an unfinished work by al-Nowaihi from which this volume takes its title. Included here is a previously unpublished lecture on elegy delivered by al-Nowaihi herself. Other contributors examine this poetic form in both classical and modern contexts, from a number of angles,
- Contents:
- Cover; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; Body
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781617971655
- 1617971650
- 9781936190256
- 1936190257
- OCLC:
- 948378153
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