La littérature francophone du Maghreb, telle qu’elle se présente aujourd’hui, a fait son apparition en Afrique du Nord autour des années cinquante du XXe siècle en tant que fruit d’une greffe: celle de la langue française ...

At the advent of the twentieth century, Egypt was subjected to different cultural currents the most prominent of which was the emergence of the “Dīwān Group” who shook off the bases of the traditional poetry with the ideas ...

The Qur’ān is ample of verses that hint at or deal with some of the events which faced Muḥammad and the community (al-umma) at Medina; and it may be noticed that, of all its chapters, the one entitled as Sūrat at-tawba ...

The work Kitāb al-maḥāsin wa-al-masāwī (The Book of Virtues and Vices) by Ibrāhīm Ibn Muḥammad al-Bayhaqī illustrates the existence of widely developed beggary in the 10th century. There is scarce information about the ...

The Arabs, who have lived in deserts for centuries, obviously owe a lot of the good and the bad to it. From time immemorial-from the “deepest” ǧāhiliyya (the epoch of the pre-Islamic unawareness)-utterly set into the desert ...

‘Alī ‘Abd Allāh Ḫalīfa is one of the most eminent of contemporary poets in Bahrain. This small Gulf state has become the homeland for many excellent poets including Ṭarafa Ibn al-‘Abd-the author of the longest mu‘allaqa ...

Zwischen mantischen also wahrsagerischen Methoden unterscheidet man: natürliche und künstliche Wahrsagerei. Die erste beruht darauf, daß man die direkt, von Gott und übernatürlichen Kräfte stammenden Signale übernimmt und ...

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 ...

There are moments in history which proved decisive in shaping the future of nations and as “the most momentous results may follow most insignificant happenings”, Muhammad’s decision to shift his preaching activities first ...