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Bibliography -  Middle East Literature and Linguistics of all Periods

Adunis, An introduction to Arab poetics (translated from the Arabic by Catherine Cobham), Austin, TX, University of Texas Press, 1990.

Agius, Dionisius A., Arabic literary works as a source of documentation for technical terms of the material culture, Berlin, K. Schwarz Verlag, 1984.

Ahsan, `Abdushshakur., Modern trends in the Persian language, Islamabad, Iran Pakistan Institute of Persian Studies, 1976.

Al-Khatib, Muhammad Kamil and Maher Barakat, Just Like a River, Interlink Pub Group, 2002, ISBN: 1566564751, Buy/Reviews.

Alcalay, Ammiel, After Jews and Arabs, Minnesota, 1993.

Alcalay, Ammiel (ed.), Keys to the Garden, City Lights, 1996.

Allen, Roger, Modern Arabic literature, New York, Ungar Pub. Co., 1987.

Allen, Roger , Hilary Kilpatrick and Ed de Moor. (ed.), Love and sexuality in modern Arabic literature, London, Saqi, 1995.

Anderson, Margaret, Arabic materials in English translation : a bibliography of works dating from the pre-Islamic period to 1977, Boston, G. K. Hall, 1980.

Arberry, Arthur John (ed.), Modern Arabic poetry; an anthology with English verse translations, London, Taylor's Foreign Press, 1950.

Arbuthnot, F. F., Arabic authors : a manual of Arabian history and literature, London, Darf Pub., 1986.

Atiyeh, George N. (ed.), The Book in the Islamic World : The Written Word and Communication in the Middle East, Albany, State Univ of New York Press, 1995.

Attar, Farid al-Din, The conference of the birds, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England, Penguin Books, 1984.

Badawi , M.M., Modern Arabic literature, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Badawi, Muhammad Mustafa., Modern Arabic literature and the West, London, Ithaca Press for the Board of the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, 1985.

Bakalla, M. H., Arabic culture through its language and literature, London ; Boston, Kegan Paul International, 1984.

Bakalla, M. H., Arabic linguistics : an introduction and bibliography, London, Mansell, 1983.

Beeman, William O., Language, status, and power in Iran, Bloomington, IND, Indiana University Press, 1986.

Berg, Nancy, Exile from Exile: Israeli Writers from Iraq, NYC, State University of New York, 1996.

Berg, Nancy E., Exile from exile : Israeli writers from Iraq, Albany, State University of New York Press, 1996.

Berque, Jacques, Cultural expression in Arab society today, Austin, TX, University of Texas Press, 1978.

Blau, Joshua, Judaeo-Arabic literature : selected texts, Jerusalem, Magnes Press, 1980.

Bohas, Georges. , J.-P. Guillaume, D.E. Kouloughli., The Arabic linguistic tradition, London ; New York, Routledge, 1990.

Bonebakker, S.A and Michael Fishbein (ed.), A reader of classical Arabic literature, Venice, Cafoscarina : Universit?a Ca' Foscari di Venezia, 1995.

Broms, Henri., How does the Middle Eastern literary taste differ from the European?, Helsinki, ISBN: 1972.

Browne, Edward Granville, A literary history of Persia, London, Cambridge 1924.

Brugman, J., An introduction to the history of modern Arabic literature in Egypt, Leiden : E. J. Brill, 1984.

Bruijn, J. T. P. de., Of piety and poetry : the interaction of religion and literature in the life and works of Hakim Sana'i of Ghazna, Leiden, Brill, 1983.

Cachia, Pierre., An overview of modern Arabic literature, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1990.

Cachia, Pierre., Popular narrative ballads of modern Egypt, Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 1989.

Caracciolo, by Peter L.. (ed.), The Arabian nights in English literature : studies in the reception of e The thousand and one nights into British culture, NYC, St. Martin's Press, 1988.

Chadwick, Nora Kershaw and Victor Zhirmunsky, Oral epics of Central Asia, London, Cambridge U.P, 1969, ISBN: 0521070538.

Connelly, Bridget., Arab folk epic and identity, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1986.

Davis, Dick, 1945, Epic and sedition : the case of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, Fayetteville, University of Arkansas Press, 1992.

El-Shamy, Hasan M., Folktales of Egypt :collected, translated, and edited, with Middle Eastern and African parallels, by Hasan M. El-Shamy ; foreword by Richard M. Dorson, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1980.

Elad, Ami, Writer, culture, text : studies in modern Arabic literature, Fredericton, N.B, York Press, 1993.

Erdener, Yildiray., The song contests of Turkish minstrels : improvised poetry sung to traditional music, New York, Garland, 1995.

Fayyad, Muna, The road to feminism : Arab women writers, East Lansing, MI, Michigan State University, 1987.

Ferguson, Charles Albert, Structuralist studies in Arabic linguistics : Charles A. Ferguson's papers, 1954-1994 (edited by B. Kirk Belnap and Niloofar Haeri.), Leiden ; New York, E.J. Brill, 1997.

Gadaffi, Muammar, Escape To Hell and Other Stories, London, Blake Publishing Ltd, 1999, ISBN: 185782346X, Buy/Reviews.

Gatje, Helmut, The Quran and its exegesis : selected texts with classical and modern Muslim interpretations, Rockport, Maine, Oneworld Publications, 1996, ISBN: 1851681183.

Gibb, Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen, Sir, Arabic literature, an introduction, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1963.

Grossman, David, See Under--Love, NYC, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989.

Grossman, David, Smile of the Lamb, NYC, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990.

Grossman, David, The Book of Intimate Grammar, NYC, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994.

Grossman, David, The Yellow Wind, NYC, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1989.

Habiby, Emile, The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist, Zed Books, 1985.

Hillmann . Michael andh Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami., Persian fiction reader : texts published in the 1980s and 1990s : language and culture notes, translations, glossary, Kensington, Md, Dunwoody Press, 1995.

Hillmann, Michael C, A lonely woman : Forugh Farrokhzad and her poetry, Washington, D.C, Three Continents Press and Mage Publishers, 1987.

Huart, Clement, A history of Arabic literature, Beirut, Khayats, 1966.

Irwin, Robert, 1946, Night and horses and the desert : an anthology of classical Arabian literature, London & New York N.Y, The Penguin Press, 1999.

Ismail Hamid., Arabic and Islamic literary tradition, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Utusan Publications & Distributors, 1982.

Jeffery, Arthur., A reader on Islam; passages from standard Arabic writings illustrative of the beliefs and practices of Muslims, Gravenhage, Mouton, 1962.

Kamshad, H. (Hassan), Modern Persian prose literature, Bethesda, Md, Iranbooks, 1996.

Kanafani, Ghassan, Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories, Three Continents, 1998, ISBN: 0-894108573, Buy/Reviews.

Kanafani, Ghassan, Palestine's Children: Returning to Haifa & Other Stories, Lynne Rienner, 2000, ISBN: 0-8941-0865-4, Buy/Reviews.

Katriel, Tamar., Talking straight : dugri speech in Israeli Sabra culture, Cambridge ; New York, Cambridge University Press, 1986.

Kitabi Dada Gorgud., Book of Dede Korkut : a turkish epic =translated into English and edited by Faruk Sumer, Ahmet E. Uysal, Warren S. Walker, Austin, TX, University of Texas Press, 1991.

Kritzeck, James. (ed.), Anthology of Islamic literature, from the rise of Islam to modern times, New York, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1964.

Levin, Aryeh., Arabic linguistic thought and dialectology, Jerusalem : The Hebrew University, 1998.

Lichtenstadter, Ilse, Introduction to classical Arabic literature : with selections from representative works in English translation, New York, Twayne Publishers, 1974.

Lyons, Malcolm Cameron, The Arabian Epic : Heroic and Oral Story-Telling : Analysis, Cambridge, Cambridge Univ Pr, 1995, ISBN: 0521474493.

Mahfouz, Naguib, Arabian Days and Nights, NYC, Doubleday, 1994, ISBN: 0-385-40451-4, Buy/Reviews.

Mahfouz, Naguib, The Day the Leader was killed, NYC, Anchor Books, 2000, ISBN: 0-385-49922-1, Buy/Reviews.

Mahfouz, Naguib, T., The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street, NYC, Everyman's Library, 2001, ISBN: 0-375413316, Buy/Reviews.

Malti-Douglas, Fedwa, Woman's body, woman's word : gender and discourse in Arabo-Islamic writing, Princeton, N.J, Princeton University Press1991?.

Meeker, Michael E., Literature and violence in North Arabia, Cambridge, Eng. ; New York, Cambridge University Press, 1979.

Meisami, Julie Scott and Paul Starkey, Encyclopedia of Arabic literature, London ; New York, Routledge, 1998.

Menocal, Maria Rosa, The Arabic role in medieval literary history : a forgotten heritage, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1987.

Mikhail, Mona, Images of Arab women : fact and fiction : essays, Washington DC, Three Continents Press, 1979.

Mir, Mustansir and Jarl E Fossu, (ed.), Literary heritage of classical Islam : Arabic and Islamic studies in honor of James A. Bellamy, Princeton, NJ, The Darwin Press, 1993.

Monroe, James T. (ed.), Hispano-Arabic poetry; a student anthology, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1974.

Moreh, Shmuel, Arabic works by Jewish writers, Jerusalem, Hebrew University, 1973.

Muhawi, Ibrahim and Sharif Kanaana., Speak, bird, speak again : Palestinian Arab folktales, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1989.

Najib Ullah, 1914, Islamic literature; introductory history with selections, New York, Washington Square Press, 1963.

Nelson, Kristina, 1945, The art of reciting the Qur'an, Austin, TX, University of Texas Press, 1985.

Nicholson, Reynold Alleyne, A literary history of the Arabs, New York, C. Scribner's sons, 1907.

Nye, Naomi Shihab, Habibi, NYC, Simon and Schuster, 1997.

Oberhelman, Steven M., The oneirocriticon of Achmet : a medieval Greek and Arabic treatise on the interpretation of dreams, Steven M. Oberhelman. Lubbock, TX, Texas Tech University Press, 1991.

Ostle, Robin, Ed de Moor and Stefan Wild (ed.), Writing the self : autobiographical writing in modern Arabic literature, London, Saqi Books, 1998.

Palva, Heikki., Narratives and poems from Hesban : Arabic texts recorded among the semi-nomadic al-`Agarma tribe, al-Balqa' district, Jordan, Goteborg, Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 1978.

Rammuny, Raji M. andDilworth B. Parkinson, (ed.), Investigating Arabic : linguistic, pedagogical and literary studies in honor of Ernest N. McCarus, Columbus, Ohio, Greydon Press, 1994.

Renard, John, Islam and the heroic image : themes in literature and the visual arts, Columbia, S.C, University of South Carolina Press, 1993.

Reynolds, Dwight Fletcher, Heroic poets, poetic heroes : the ethnography of performance in an Arabic oral epic tradition, Ithaca, N.Y, Cornell University Press, 1995.

Ricks, Thomas M. (ed.), Critical perspectives on modern Persian literature, Washington, D.C, Three Continents Press, 1984.

Sabar, Yona, The Folk Literature of the Kurdistani Jews: An Anthology, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1982.

Salem, Elise, Constructing Lebanon: A Century of Literary Narratives, Gainesville, University Press of Florida, 2003, ISBN: 0-813025966, Buy/Reviews.

Schimmel, Annemarie, Sufi literature, New York, Afghanistan Council of the Asia Society, 1975.

Schimmel, Annemarie., Pain and grace : a study of two mystical writers of eighteenth-century Muslim India, Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1976.

Schimmel, Annemarie. As through a veil : mystical poetry in Islam, Annemarie Schimmel, New York, Columbia University Press, 1982.

Shah, Idries, Tales of the dervishes : teaching-stories of the Sufi masters over the past thousand years, New York, Dutton, 1970.

Shami, Yitzhak, Hebron Stories, Labyrinthos, 2000.

Shammas, Anton, Arabesques, California reprint, 2001.

Sirat Sayf ibn Dhi Yazan., English. Selections The adventures of Sayf ben Dhi Yazan : an Arab folk epic -translation and narration by Lena Jayyusi ; introduction by Harry Norris, Bloomington, Ind, Indiana University Press, 1996.

Slyomovics, Susan., The object of memory : Arab and Jew narrate the Palestinian village, Philadelphia, PA, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998.

Smart., J.R., Tradition and modernity in Arabic language and literature, Surrey, Curzon, 1996.

Sowayan, Saad Abdullah., Nabati poetry : the oral poetry of Arabia, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1985.

Testen, David., Parallels in Semitic linguistics : the development of Arabic la and related Semitic particles, Leiden ; Boston, Brill, 1998.

Thackston, Wheeler McIntosh, An introduction to Persian, Bethesda, Md, Iranbooks, 1993.

Trix, Frances., Spiritual discourse: learning with an Islamic master, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993.

Turki, Fawaz, Soul in Exile: Lives of a Palestinian Revolutionary, NYC, Monthly Review Press, 1988.

Walker, Warren S., Tales alive in Turkey, Warren S. Walker & Ahmet E. Uysal, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1966.

Wilfong , Terry G., Women of Jeme: Lives in a Coptic Town in Late Antique Egypt (New Texts from Ancient Cultures), Ann Arbor, MI, University of Michigan Press, 2003, ISBN: 0472066129, Buy/Reviews.

Wilson, Epiphanius, Arabian literature ... with critical and biographical sketches, London and New York, The Colonial press, 1900.

Windfuhr, Gernot., Persian grammar : history and state of its study, The Hague ; New York, Mouton Publishers, 1979.

Yehoshua, A., Mr. Mani, NYC, Doubleday, 1992.

Zajjaji, `Abd al-Rahman ibn Ishaq, The explanation of linguistic causes : az-Zaggagi's theory of grammar : introduction, translation, commentary - Kees Versteegh, Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, J. Benjamins, 1995.

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