On the 30th of August 2006 Naǧīb Maḥfūẓ died-a legend and symbol of modern Arabic literature, so far the only Noble Prize winner (1988) in that field. For decades he had enriched literature with new novels, short stories ...

Throughout history, the approach towards imported spices varied from culture to culture. In medieval and early post-medieval Europe, where spices became an exotic object of temporary desire, they were often used unskillfully ...

The article presents the doctrine of muẖammisa according to Muslim heresiography. The muḫammisa is one of ġulāt groups. This term is applied to groups accused of exaggeration (ġuluww) in religion and has covered a lot of ...

In this paper I am going to present the ways in which the Egyptian dialect renders social norms, which will be illustrated by the examples of expressions regarding human- to-human interaction. This provides an outline of ...

Przedmiotem opracowania jest analiza społeczno-gospodarcza świata arabskiego w kontekście Milenijnych Celów Rozwoju (MCR). Tak zarysowany zakres tematyczny pozwala z jednej strony przedstawić świat arabski w ujęciu rzadkim ...

Arabic drama as a collection of written texts belongs to the so-called “new” Arabic literature, which has been developing since the 19th century. Prior to this date, in the period of Arabic classical literature, only few ...

The aim of this article is to analyze some aspects of Šāfi‘ Ibn ‘Alī’s biography of sultan Qalāwūn titled Al-Faḍl al-Ma’ṯūr min Sīrat aṣ-Ṣulṭān al-Malik al-Manṣūr, in the collection of the Bodleian Library MS no. Marsh ...

The Bibliography of Arabic and Islamic Studies in Poland (1996. Addenda 1995).

The Arabs, who have lived in deserts for centuries, obviously owe a lot of the good and the bad to it. From time immemorial-from the “deepest” ǧāhiliyya (the epoch of the pre-Islamic unawareness)-utterly set into the desert ...