Cultural Pearls from the East: In Memory of Shmuel Moreh (1932-2017)

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Cultural Pearls from the East offers persuasive insights on Muslim\-Arab culture and its evolving intellectual features and literary tests, from the dawn of Islam to modern times. Contents Acknowledgments A Note on Transliteration Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction: Shmuel Moreh (1932–2017): Scholar and Humanist Shmuel Moreh’s Scientific Achievements Part 1 Poetry Narrative in Ancient Arabic Heroic Poetry: The Account of the Battle An Unpublished Poem in Honor of the Prophet Moses An Anti-Jewish Qaṣīda by Sīdī Qaddūr al-ʿAlamī “To Choose Your Own Sky”: Rootedness and Dislocation in the Poetry of Saʿdī Yūsuf Intertextuality in Samīḥ al-Qāsim’s Poetry: A Philosophy of Blending Part 2 Prose and Drama The Pimps’ Maqāma: A Libertine Piece of Ornate Prose from a Manuscript of the Mamluk Period Where Is the Holy Land? A Reading of Two Seventeenth-Century Arabic Manuscripts of Virtues of the Holy Land Literature Samīr Naqqāsh: From One Universe to Another—Iraq to Israel Representations of Women in the Literary Works of Egyptian Writer Jamāl al-Ghīṭānī Shared Passion: Imam Ḥusayn in Persian and Arabic Drama Fūl, Egypt’s National Food: A Key Component of Egyptian Identity and Its Reflections in Modern Egyptian Literature Contemporary Arabic Literature and Its Obsession with the Internet Part 3 Historiography An Unknown Chronicle of Ottoman Egypt and Its Historiographical Implications The Sufi Personality of the Egyptian Historian ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Jabartī (1753–1825) Encountering Modernity in the Late Nineteenth Century: Two Egyptian Accounts Shmuel Moreh’s Baghdad Mon Amour: Autobiographical Works as Historical and Cultural Documents Index