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 ...

The review of Zohorul Bari, Re-Emergence of The Muslim Brothers in Egypt, New Delhi, 1995, 165 pp.

Pre-Islamic history directly revolved around two main political and economical powers, namely the Byzantine Empire covering Europe, Africa, West Asia, and the Persian Empire in Asia. Since the beginning of the seventh and ...

The concept of mark, borrowed from phonology and formulated by N. S. Troubetzkoy and R. Jakobson in the nineteen-thirties, is significant in the definition of the syntactic functions of terms having a sequential syntagmatic ...

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 review of Yahya R. Kamalipour (ed.), The US-Media and the Middle East Image and Perception, Westport, Connecticut 1995, 242 p.

It has been noticed that some scholars in their attempt to discover something new in their researches, deplorably distort the clear facts of history. An example of this is their dealing with the qurrā’ issue in the early ...