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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pustynne tereny, na których położony jest dzisiejszy Katar, nie mogą poszczycić się wieloma wybitnymi postaciami, które zaznaczyły się w dziejach kultury arabsko-muzułmańskiej w okresie średniowiecznym, czyli w czasach jej ...

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. ...

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 ...

According to Bouthaina Shaaban, professor of literature at Damascus University, the story of Arab women novelists reflects, in many ways, the story of most women in different disciplines. It is the story of abundant ...

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 ...

Kuwaiti literature is very young and therefore the authors are also mostly young, only beginning their literary careers. Among these authors particularly intersting are: Laylā al-‘Uṯmān, Ṯurayyā al-Baqṣamī, Sulaymān aš-Šaṭṭī, ...

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 ...