The 8th century saw the emergence of a new literary genre: handbooks for princes and governors. By that time the Arab empire had expanded over a vast territory. A competent administration was necessary to govern the state. ...

The anonymous Arabic chivalrous romances (sīrats) belong to a large family of heroic epics common to most cultures. After several centuries of oral transmission during which their number considerably increased, they were ...

There are moments in history which proved decisive in shaping the future of nations and as “the most momentous results may follow most insignificant happenings”, Muhammad’s decision to shift his preaching activities first ...

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

The review of Mohamed Heikal, Secret Channels. The Inside Story of the Arab-Israeli Peace negotiations, Harper Collins Publishers, London 1996, 572 pp.

The review of John O. Hunwick and R. Sean O’Fahey (eds.), Arabic Literature of Africa. Volume 1. The Writings of Eastern Sudanic Africa to c. 1900. Compiled by R. Sean O’Fahey, with the assistance of Muhammad Ibrahim Abu ...

The review of Gesellschaftlicher Umbruch und Historie im Zeitgenössischen Drama der Islamischen Welt. Herausgegeben von Johann Christoph Bürgel und Stephan Guth, Beirut 1995, in Komission bei Franz Steiner Verlag Stuttgart ...

It is not certain, either, if knowledge of the origins was treated, in Arabic culture, as a separate branch of knowledge or as an element of history or adab literature. Works as Kitāb al-awā’il by Al-‘Askarī or Al-Wasā’il ...

The Gulf conflict of 1990/1991 was not an incidental event, but the climax in a long chain of events. The deeper causes have their historical, ideological, political, economic and psychological roots. In general, the causes ...

Az-Zayyāt often felt strong supra-Arab Islamic community emotions in topical contemporary contexts and perpetuated themes about pristine classical Islam from the old pre-World War I type of political pan-Islamism in Egypt. ...