Sīrat Al-Ğāhiz. Volume in Honour of Krystyna Skarżyńska-Bocheńska and Danuta Madeyska / ed. by Marek M. Dziekan, Paulina B. Lewicka, Katarzyna Pachniak http://hdl.handle.net/11089/2967 2026-04-17T11:37:07Z 2026-04-17T11:37:07Z von Kemnitz, Eva-Maria http://hdl.handle.net/11089/3425 2018-02-01T11:18:46Z 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Centenary of the Republic and the Republic of Letters: Arabic Studies in Portugal 1910–2010 von Kemnitz, Eva-Maria The present essay deals with a specific phase in which Arabic language has been introduced as a new discipline in the university curriculum in Portugal. From 1914 until 1974 it was taught practically in only one university, after 1974 new universities were created and some of them have included this discipline in their curricula mainly as an optional subject or a free course model. We shall analyse the conditions in which its study has been carried out and the principal factors that contributed to the advancement of this discipline. This essay is based on the bibliography listed below that covers a significant part of the chronology considered and is complemented by recollection of information from scattered sources of differentiated reliability, pamphlets issued by universities and other institutions and in some cases on oral basis only. Therefore certain gaps or inaccuracy of dates may involuntarily occur.

2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Nawolska, Anna http://hdl.handle.net/11089/3424 2018-02-01T11:18:43Z 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Fate as a Literary Hero in the Historical Novel Abath al-Aqdar by Najib Mahfuz Nawolska, Anna The Mockery of the Fates is the first novel written by Najib Mahfuz (1911–2006), the Egyptian writer who until the present-day is the only one Arabian Nobel Prize Winner for literature. Since the author became famous rather for his later magnum opus called The Cairo Trilogy than previous works, my aim was to remind a little-known quasi-historical novel which was published in his youth. Due to a very interesting composition of the fable with build-up of suspense and its mature literary style, the work might have served for a perfect film screenplay. Despite the book was addressed mainly to teenagers, it still provokes the adult readers to reflect on the question of free will and destiny. The novel based on Mycenaean myths and old Egyptian legends indicates intermingling of ancient cultures and continuity of diverse traditions till these days.

2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Kilpatrick, Hilary http://hdl.handle.net/11089/3423 2018-02-01T11:18:46Z 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Inter-communal Poetry of Niqūlāwus as-Sā’iḡ (1692–1756) Kilpatrick, Hilary After discussing the background to the emergence of several noted Christian writers in Aleppo around 1700, this article presents the life and work of one of them, Niqūlāwus a s- S ā ’i ḡ (1692–1756), a Greek Catholic monk who was mainly responsible for establishing the Shuwayrite Basilian Order in his Church. While most of his poetry is religious, a few poems are dedicated to secular and non-Christian personalities, most of them political notables on whose support the Order depended. The article examines in detail a panegyric of members of the Druze Abī al-Lam‘ family and a poem in reply to one of A s - S ā ’i ḡ’s friends, a Šī‘ī religious dignitary, showing how A s - S ā ’i ḡ works within the conventions of Arabic poetry of his time. It is noteworthy that he refers to the religious and historical heritage of the addressees of his poems, while at the same time reminding them that he himself is a Christian monk.

2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Hämeen-Anttila, Jaakko http://hdl.handle.net/11089/3422 2018-02-01T11:20:19Z 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Muhammad ̔Awfī and the Persian maqāma Hämeen-Anttila, Jaakko The influence of Arabic maqāmas on Hebrew literature has received some attention, but their influence on Persian literature has been less intensively studied. However, maqāmas were eagerly received and imitated in 12th-century Persia. A Persian author, Muhammad Awfī (d. after 628/1230–1) deserves attention when assessing the early Persian maqāma. In his Ǧawāmi̔, he gives the translation of one Harīrian maqāma and relates two or three stories which would easily qualify as maqāmas. They also show that the influence of the maqāma on Persian literature is stronger than is usually suggested. Persians may not always have labelled their texts maqāmas, which, after all, remained a foreign genre for them, but at the same time maqāmas did influence Persian prose literature more deeply than is usually recognized.

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