This book—the first comprehensive reader of Arabic literature from pre-Islamic times to the present—is an essential work for advanced students of the Arabic language. Presenting seventy works by seventy authors, it includes: • pre-Islamic poetry and prose; • selections from the Qur’an; • the Prophet Muhammad’s last sermon; • the powerful writing of Ali Ibn Abi Talib, the fourth Islamic Caliph; • writings from the “Golden Age of the Arabs” (750-1258 A.D.) in philosophy, mysticism, prose, and poetry; • works from the neoclassical, modernist, and metaphorical schools; • literature of the Arabs in Andalus, Spain; • discussions of cultural, literary, critical, and political movements of the present day; • vocabulary lists, a list of idioms and notes, a set of questions about the text, and two glossaries. This book not only introduces students to the entire sweep of Arabic intellectual, political, and cultural thought but also gives examples of how this thought is expressed, offering important insight into the Arab mind.

Anthology of Arabic Literature, Culture, and Thought from Pre-Islamic Times to the Present

Reference

Frangieh, Bassam K.

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Yale University Press

Arabic for Life takes an intensive, comprehensive approach to beginning Arabic instruction and is specifically tailored to the needs of talented and dedicated students. Unlike the other Arabic textbooks on the market, Arabic for Life is not specifically focused on either grammar or proficiency. Instead, it offers a balanced methodology that combines these goals. Frangieh has created a book that is full of energy and excitement about Arabic language and culture, and it effectively transmits that excitement to students. Arabic for Life offers a dynamic and multidimensional view of the Arab world that incorporates language with Arabic culture and intellectual thought. 
The book is accompanied by a DVD with some eighty videos of native speakers reciting the vocalized texts in the book and dozens of audio recordings covering vocabulary and expressions, drills on Arabic sounds and letters, and various exercises and activities.

Arabic for Life: A Textbook for Beginning Arabic

This book—the first comprehensive reader of Arabic literature from pre-Islamic times to the present—is an essential work for advanced students of the Arabic language. Presenting seventy works by seventy authors, it includes:
<ul>
<li>pre-Islamic poetry and prose;</li>
<li>selections from the Qur’an;</li>
<li>the Prophet Muhammad’s last sermon;</li>
<li>the powerful writing of Ali Ibn Abi Talib, the fourth Islamic Caliph;</li>
<li>writings from the “Golden Age of the Arabs” (750-1258 A.D.) in philosophy, mysticism, prose, and poetry;</li>
<li>works from the neoclassical, modernist, and metaphorical schools;</li>
<li>literature of the Arabs in Andalus, Spain;</li>
<li>discussions of cultural, literary, critical, and political movements of the present day;</li>
<li>vocabulary lists, a list of idioms and notes, a set of questions about the text, and two glossaries.</li>
</ul>This book not only introduces students to the entire sweep of Arabic intellectual, political, and cultural thought but also gives examples of how this thought is expressed, offering important insight into the Arab mind.

Anthology of Arabic Literature, Culture, and Thought from Pre-Islamic Times to the Present: With Online Media (Yale Language Series)

Words, Language & Grammar

Arabic for Life takes an intensive, comprehensive approach to beginning Arabic instruction and is specifically tailored to the needs of talented and dedicated students. Unlike the other Arabic textbooks on the market, Arabic for Life is not specifically focused on either grammar or proficiency. Instead, it offers a balanced methodology that combines these goals. Frangieh has created a book that is full of energy and excitement about Arabic language and culture, and it effectively transmits that excitement to students. Arabic for Life offers a dynamic and multidimensional view of the Arab world that incorporates language with Arabic culture and intellectual thought.

Arabic for Life: A Textbook for Beginning Arabic: With Online Media

Nizar Kabbani s poetry has been described as more powerful than all the Arab regimes put together (Lebanese Daily Star). Reflecting on his death in 1998, Sulhi Al-Wadi wrote (in Tishreen), Qabbani is like water, bread, and the sun in every Arab heart and house. In his poetry the harmony of the heart, and in his blood the melody of love. Arabian Love Poems is the first English-language collection of his work.Kabbani was a poet of great simplicity direct, spontaneous, musical, using the language of everyday life. He was a ceaseless campaigner for women s rights, and his verses praise the beauty of the female body, and of love. He was an Arab nationalist, yet he criticized Arab dictators and the lack of freedom in the Arab world. He was the poet of Damascus: I am the Damascene. If you dissect my body, grapes and apples will come out of it. If you open my veins with your knife, you will hear in my blood the voices of those who have departed. Frangieh and Brown s elegant translations are accompanied by the Arabic texts of the poems, penned by Kabbani especially for this collection.

Arabian Love Poems: Full Arabic and English Texts (English, Arabic and Arabic Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Kabbani, Nizar

Brown, Clementina R.

Poetry

Passeggiata Pr

Nizar Kabbani s poetry has been described as more powerful than all the Arab regimes put together (Lebanese Daily Star). Reflecting on his death in 1998, Sulhi Al-Wadi wrote (in Tishreen), Qabbani is like water, bread, and the sun in every Arab heart and house. In his poetry the harmony of the heart, and in his blood the melody of love. Arabian Love Poems is the first English-language collection of his work. Kabbani was a poet of great simplicity direct, spontaneous, musical, using the language of everyday life. He was a ceaseless campaigner for women s rights, and his verses praise the beauty of the female body, and of love. He was an Arab nationalist, yet he criticized Arab dictators and the lack of freedom in the Arab world. He was the poet of Damascus: I am the Damascene. If you dissect my body, grapes and apples will come out of it. If you open my veins with your knife, you will hear in my blood the voices of those who have departed. Frangieh and Brown s elegant translations are accompanied by the Arabic texts of the poems, penned by Kabbani especially for this collection.

Arabian Love Poems: Full Arabic and English Texts (Three Continents Press)

Qabbani, Nizar

History & Criticism

Three Continents Pr

Sun on a Cloudy Day

Minah, Hanna

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