What 'Isa ibn Hisham Told Us : Or, A Period of Time / Muhammad al-Muwaylihi.

Name: What 'Isa ibn Hisham Told Us : Or, A Period of Time / Muhammad al-Muwaylihi.
Author: Muwayliḥī, Muḥammad

Title	What 'Isa ibn Hisham Told Us : Or, A Period of Time / Muhammad al-Muwaylihi.
Author	Muwayliḥī, Muḥammad
Publication Date:	2018
Publication Place	New York, NY - New York University Press
Type	Book
Language	ara,eng
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Pages Count	422
Library:	University of Bielefeld Library
Record ID	991025850788106442
Date	2018
Notes	Trenchant and witty critiques of life in Cairo under British ruleWhat 'Isa ibn Hisham Told Us is a masterpiece of early twentieth-century Arabic prose. Penned by the Egyptian journalist Muhammad al-Muwaylihi, this highly original work was first introduced in serialized form in his family’s pioneering newspaper Misbah al-Sharq (Light of the East) and later published in book form in 1907. Widely hailed for its erudition and mordant wit, What 'Isa ibn Hisham Told Us was embraced by Egypt’s burgeoning reading public and soon became required reading for generations of school students.Bridging classical genres and modern Arabic fiction, What 'Isa ibn Hisham Told Us is divided into two parts. Sarcastic in tone and critical in outlook, the first part of the book relates the excursions of its narrator, 'Isa ibn Hisham, and his companion, the Pasha, through a rapidly westernizing Cairo and provides vivid commentary on a society negotiating—however imperfectly—the clash between traditional norms and imported cultural values. The second half takes the narrator to Paris to visit the Exposition Universelle of 1900, where al-Muwaylihi casts a critical eye on European society, modernity, and the role of Western imperialism as it ripples across the globe.Paving the way for the modern Arabic novel, What 'Isa ibn Hisham Told Us is invaluable both for its insight into colonial Egypt and its pioneering role in Arabic literary history.
ISBN	1-4798-3671-0
Dizi başlığı	Library of Arabic literature.

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What 'Isa ibn Hisham Told Us : Or, A Period of Time / Muhammad al-Muwaylihi.

Author Muwayliḥī, Muḥammad

Publication Date 2018

Publication Place New York, NY - New York University Press

Type Book

Language ara,eng

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Pages Count 422

Library University of Bielefeld Library

Record ID 991025850788106442

Date 2018

Notes Trenchant and witty critiques of life in Cairo under British ruleWhat 'Isa ibn Hisham Told Us is a masterpiece of early twentieth-century Arabic prose. Penned by the Egyptian journalist Muhammad al-Muwaylihi, this highly original work was first introduced in serialized form in his family’s pioneering newspaper Misbah al-Sharq (Light of the East) and later published in book form in 1907. Widely hailed for its erudition and mordant wit, What 'Isa ibn Hisham Told Us was embraced by Egypt’s burgeoning reading public and soon became required reading for generations of school students.Bridging classical genres and modern Arabic fiction, What 'Isa ibn Hisham Told Us is divided into two parts. Sarcastic in tone and critical in outlook, the first part of the book relates the excursions of its narrator, 'Isa ibn Hisham, and his companion, the Pasha, through a rapidly westernizing Cairo and provides vivid commentary on a society negotiating—however imperfectly—the clash between traditional norms and imported cultural values. The second half takes the narrator to Paris to visit the Exposition Universelle of 1900, where al-Muwaylihi casts a critical eye on European society, modernity, and the role of Western imperialism as it ripples across the globe.Paving the way for the modern Arabic novel, What 'Isa ibn Hisham Told Us is invaluable both for its insight into colonial Egypt and its pioneering role in Arabic literary history.

ISBN 1-4798-3671-0

Dizi başlığı Library of Arabic literature.