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 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 ...

The purpose of this paper is to shed some new light on the community of Abbasid court companions, their character and their writings. It seems that the study of that problem has been slightly neglected1, though their ...

Współcześnie antropolodzy chętnie widzą w mediach rodzaj nowoczesnej mitologii2, co oznacza, że światu potrzeba nowych wartości w starych, wypróbowanych formach. Fascynacja treścią przekazów i postaci medialnych, do granic ...

The beginnings of Omani women’s literary work go back to the previous century, when the Sultan of Oman and Zanzibar’s daughter Sayyida Sālma Bint Sa‘īd started to write her memoirs, which were published in Berlin in 1886 ...

Muḥammad al-Ǧābirī, a contemporary Arabic philosopher, was born in Marocco in 1936. He has been teaching at the University of Muḥammad the 5th in Rabat since 1967. In 1988 he was granted a UNESCO award for developing Arabic ...

This essay focus on Al-Baṣīr’s life, obstacles he faced during his life and what means he had to become the most biggest writer of essays in Kuwait and Arabian Gulf.

Kuwait–History and the Present Time: a seminar to commemorate the 40th anniversary of establishing diplomatic relations between Kuwait and Poland held at Szkoła Główna Handlowa (Main Buisness School) in Warsaw on the 16th ...

Autor prezentuje tłumaczenie fragmentu Maǧma‘ dotyczącego nazw „dni Arabów”. Tekst obejmuje jedynie dni Arabów w okresie staroarabskim. Przekładu dokonano na podstawie: Al-Maydānī, Maǧma‘ al-amṯāl, Kair 1959, t. II, 430-444. ...