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The seventy-yard long chain desert (The prose of Ibrāhīm al-Kawnī)
(Katedra Arabistyki i Islamistyki, Uniwersytet Warszawski, 1996)
Odysseus had already abandoned his young and beautiful wife to begin dangerous travels. He was followed by hundreds of heroes of myths and legends who gave themselves up to the adventures far away from home. But they usually ...
Siyāset-nāme of Niẓām al-Mulk and Naṣīḥāt al-mulūk of Al-Ġazālī: two examples of “mirror for princes”
(Katedra Arabistyki i Islamistyki, Uniwersytet Warszawski, 1997)
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 formula and theme in the Arabic chivalrous romance
(Katedra Arabistyki i Islamistyki, Uniwersytet Warszawski, 1997)
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 ...
Searching for the origins of things. On the ‘ilm al-awā’il in the culture of the Arabic Middle Ages
(Katedra Arabistyki i Islamistyki, Uniwersytet Warszawski, 1996)
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 ...
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 [Beiruter Texte und Studien. Herausgegeben vom Orient Institut der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesselschaft, Band 60]
(Katedra Arabistyki i Islamistyki, Uniwersytet Warszawski, 1995)
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 ...
La Tunisie musulmane, pays à un riche passé chrétien et un présent tolérant
(Katedra Arabistyki i Islamistyki, Uniwersytet Warszawski, 1996)
En avril 1996 le pape Jean Paul II a effectué une visite officielle en Tunisie. Après le Maroc, la Tunisie a été le deuxième pays de l’Afrique du Nord où s’est rendu le Souverain Pontife. Dans son discours devant le pape, ...
Origins and reasons of the Gulf conflict of 1990/1991
(Katedra Arabistyki i Islamistyki, Uniwersytet Warszawski, 1996)
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 ...
Women in Islam. Tradition and modernity
(Katedra Arabistyki i Islamistyki, Uniwersytet Warszawski, 1995)
It should be stated at the beginning that the contemporary family in the Islamic World is basically patriarchal, characterized by the domination of the father — head of the family—followed by adult male members in accordance ...
Magic and realism of the desert (The prose of Ibrāhīm al-Kawnī)
(Katedra Arabistyki i Islamistyki, Uniwersytet Warszawski, 1995)
Many authors tried to explore the magic of the desert, but it was only the Libyan Ibrāhīm al-Kawnī who was able to introduce it to the literature on a larger scale. He was born in 1948, and began publishing in the 1970’s. ...
Mohamed Heikal, Secret Channels. The Inside Story of the Arab-Israeli Peace negotiations, Harper Collins Publishers, London 1996, 572 pp.
(Katedra Arabistyki i Islamistyki, Uniwersytet Warszawski, 1998)
The review of Mohamed Heikal, Secret Channels. The Inside Story of the Arab-Israeli Peace negotiations, Harper Collins Publishers, London 1996, 572 pp.