Reader in Modern Literary Arabic [online] /
Farhat Jacob Ziyadeh
- Princeton University Press, 2016
- 1 online resource (442 p.)
- Princeton Legacy Library 2327 .
- Princeton Legacy Library .
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- SELECTION I. Arabic Self-Taught / SELECTION II. Literature for the People / SELECTION III. Memoirs of Kh. Taqiyy al-Dīn / SELECTION IV. Advocates' Chamber / SELECTION V. The Slavery of Women / SELECTION VI. Problems of Muslim Women / SELECTION VII. Our Generation and Yours / SELECTION VIII. The Widow and Her Son / SELECTION IX. A Day in New York / SELECTION X. How I Was a Demon / SELECTION XI. Egypt's Treasure in the Heart / SELECTION XII. Iraq of the Future / SELECTION XIII. Garry Your Plow and Follow Me / SELECTION XIV. The 1919 Revolution / SELECTION XV. From Cairo to Malta to Paris / SELECTION XVI. Pharaohs and Arabs / SELECTION XVII. Arabism and Islamism / SELECTION XVIII. The Basic Solution / SELECTION XIX. Causes of the 1952 Revolution / SELECTION XX. The Koran at Dawn / SELECTION XXI. Ismā'īl and the Mosquitoes / SELECTION XXII. Holidays at Santrīs / SELECTION XXIII. The Sharecropper / SELECTION XXIV. St. George's Day / SELECTION XXV. At al-Azhar / SELECTION XXVI. My City Quarter / SELECTION XXVII. Amīn al-Rayḥānī / SELECTION XXVIII. Our Family's Name / SELECTION XXIX. Some Writers I Knew / SELECTION XXX. Chamber of Sorrows / SELECTION XXXI. The Suitcase / SELECTION XXXII. The Sought-after Lover / SELECTION XXXIII. Abū Baṭṭah / SELECTION XXXIV. Najiyyah Bint al-Fiqī / ABOUT THE AUTHORS -- ARABIC-ENGLISH VOCABULARY -- INDEX OF IDIOMS AND SET PHRASES -- INDEX OF GRAMMATICAL POINTS al-Māzinī, I. Ά. -- Mūsā, Salāmah -- Taqiyy al-Dīn, Kh. -- Kāmil, Mahmūd -- Amīn, Qāsim -- al -Sa'īd, Amīnah -- Amīn, Aḥmad -- Jubrān, J. Khalīl -- Taymūr, Maḥmūd -- al-Māzinī, I. 'A. -- al- Ḥakīm, Tawfīq -- Baṭṭi, Rufā'īl -- al-Sakakmi, Khalil -- Ḥaykal, M. H. -- al-'Aqqād, 'A. M. -- al-Zayyāt, A. Ḥ. -- Fāris, N. A. -- Zurayq, Qusṭanṭīn -- al-Rāfi'ī, 'A. -- al-Rāfi'ī, M. Ṣ. -- al-Qalamāwī, Suhayr -- Mubārak, Zaki -- al-Rayḥānī, Amin -- Furayḥah, Anīs -- Ḥusayn, Ṭāhā -- Amīn, Aḥmad -- al Kayyālī, Sāmī -- Kurd 'All, M. -- Mūsā, Salāmah -- al-Manfalūṭī, M. L. -- Ghurayyib, Rose -- al-Hindāwī, Khalil -- Nu'aymah, Mikhā'īl -- Taymūr, Maḥmūd --
Selected excerpts from the work of modern Arabic writers are presented, with a brief biographical essay on each author. Selections are accompanied by linguistic and cultural annotations, by exercises in grammar and vocabulary, and by Arabic sentences to he translated.Originally published in 1964.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.