Reader in Modern Literary Arabic

✍ Scribed by Farhat Jacob Ziyadeh

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 440
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library; 2327
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction
I. Arabic Self-Taught - I. 'A. al-Māzinī
II. Literature for the People - Salāmah Mūsā
III. Memoirs of Kh. Taqiyy - Kh. Taqiyy Al-Dīnal-Dīn
IV. Advocates' Chamber - Mahmūd Kāmil
V. The Slavery of Women - Qāsim Amīn
VI. Problems of Muslim Women - Amīnah al-Sa'īd
VII. Our Generation and Yours - Ahmad Amīn
VIII. The Widow and Her Son - J. Khalīl Jubrān
IX. A Day in New York - Mahmūd Taymūr
X. How I Was a Demon - I. 'A. al-Māzinī
XI. Egypt's Treasure in the Heart - Tawflq al- Hakīm
XII. Iraq of the Future - Rufā'īl Baṭṭī
XIII. Carry Your Plow and Follow Me - Khalīl al-Sakākīnī
XIV. The 1919 Revolution - M. Ḥ. Haykal
XV. From Cairo to Malta to Paris - 'A. M. al-'Aqqād
XVI. Pharaohs and Arabs - A. Ḥ. Al-Zayyāt
XVII. Arabism and Islamism - N. A. Fāris
XVIII. The Basic Solution - Qusṭanṭīn Zurayq
XIX. Causes of the 1952 Revolution - 'A. al-Rāfi'ī
XX. The Koran at Dawn - M. Ṣ. al-Rāfi'ī
XXI. Ismā'īl and the Mos-Quitoes - Suhayr Al-Qalamāwī
XXII. Holidays at Santrls - Zaki Mubārak
XXIII. The Sharecropper - Amin Al-Rayḥānī
XXIV. St. George's Day - Anīs Furayḥah
XXV. At al-Azhar - Ṭāhā Ḥusayn
XXVI. My City Quarter - Aḥmad Amīn
XXVII. Amīn al-Rayḥānī - Sāmī al Kayyālī
XXVIII. Our Family's Name - M. Kurd 'Alī
XXIX. Some Writers I Knew - Salāmah Mūsā
XXX. Chamber of Sorrows - M. L. al-Manfalūṭī
XXXI. The Suitcase - Rose Ghurayyib
XXXII. The Sought-After Lover - Khalil Al-Hindāwī
XXXIII. Abū Baṭṭah - Mīkhā'īl Nu'aymah
XXXIV. Najiyyah Bint Al-Fiqī - Mahmūd Taymūr
About the Authors
Arabic-English Vocabulary
Index of Idioms and Set Phrases
Index of Grammatical Points