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What ʿĪsā Ibn Hishām Told Us: Or, a Period of Time, Volume Two

What ʿĪsā Ibn Hishām Told Us: Or, a Period of Time, Volume Two

Allen, Roger
Al Muwaylihi, Muhammad
Allen, Roger

Hardcover

Series: Library of Arabic Literature, Book 60

Fiction AnthologiesGeneral Middle Eastern History

ISBN10: 1479862258
ISBN13: 9781479862252
Publisher: New York Univ Pr
Published: Jul 3 2015
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.50
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

With What ʿĪsā ibn Hishām Told Us, the Library of Arabic Literature brings readers an acknowledged masterpiece of early twentieth-century Arabic prose. Penned by the Egyptian journalist Muḥammad al-Muwayliḥī, this exceptional title was first introduced in serialized form in his family's pioneering newspaper Miṣbāḥ al-Sharq (Light of the East), on which this edition is based, and later published in book form in 1907. Widely hailed for its erudition and its mordant wit, What ʿĪsā ibn Hishām Told Us was embraced by Egypt's burgeoning reading public and soon became required reading for generations of Egyptian school students.

Bridging classical genres and the emerging tradition of modern Arabic fiction, What ʿĪsā ibn Hishām Told Us is divided into two parts, the second of which was only added to the text with the fourth edition of 1927. Sarcastic in tone and critical in outlook, the book relates the excursions of its narrator ʿĪsā ibn Hishām

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