The Bibliography of Arabic and Islamic Studies in Poland (2004-2006).

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 ...

By the eleventh century the community founded in the seventh century by the Prophet Muḥammad had split into several religious groups. The umma as a single, unified community, had become a political fiction. The Abbasid ...

The Arab Egyptians usually call this river Baḥr an-Nīl (The Sea of Nile). Travelers from other Islamic regions also adopted this name apparently because of its great length and width. Although the name An-Nīl does not ...

Bedouins in headscarves, men in jeans and suits, they all speak one Arabic language and search for their place in the world, uncertainly, bravely, with hope. This is a picture that comes up from the modern Arab prose that ...

In the contemporary world characterized by the dynamic progress of technology and easiness with which the media transcend the national boundaries, the historical communication peripheries seems to gradually disappear. ...

Although the supporters of Sunna want to see its opponents as newcomers to Islam and recent, West-influenced innovators, it is a historical fact that controversies around the Prophetic Tradition emerged long before the ...

The story I am introducing here is As-Sā’iḥāt al-ǧamīlāt wa-al-Ḥāǧǧ (The beautiful female tourists and the Ḥāǧǧ), chosen from Al-Miṣrāṭī’s Al-Qird fī al-maṭār collection of stories. The reason behind my choice of this ...

Many characters of the Book of the Thousand and One Nights, which came into being in the Middle Ages, have occupied a permanent place in culture and continue to enjoy popularity, both in the East and in the West. Sheherazade ...

Abū Ḥāmid al-Ġazālī (1058-1111) nazywany jest ḥuǧǧat al-islām (dowód, argument islamu) i powszechnie uważany za jednego z najwybitniejszych uczonych muzułmańskich. Do dziś imponuje wszechstronnością. W swych dziełach ...