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    • Michael Mc-Kinley (ed.), The Gulf War: Critical Perspectives, Canberra, 194, 201 pp. 

      Bhutani, Surender (Katedra Arabistyki i Islamistyki, Uniwersytet Warszawski, 1998)
      The review of Michael Mc-Kinley (ed.), The Gulf War: Critical Perspectives, Canberra, 194, 201 pp.
    • Symbol Kataru – poeta i orator Katari Ibn al-Fudża’a 

      Pachniak, Katarzyna (Ibidem, 2009)
      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 ...
    • Chrześcijanie w Katarze 

      Grodzki, Marcin (Ibidem, 2009)
      W marcu 2008 r. Katar dołączył do grona tych państw regionu Zatoki Perskiej, w których mogą oficjalnie działać instytucjonalne struktury Kościoła rzymskokatolickiego. Na mocy dekretu głowy państwa, emira szajcha Hamada Ibn ...
    • Kobiety w sferze publicznej: edukacja, gospodarka i polityka 

      Górak-Sosnowska, Katarzyna (Ibidem, 2009)
      Patrząc na Katar przez pryzmat zmian zachodzących w zakresie funkcjonowania kobiet w życiu społecznym, można powiedzieć, że jest to kraj wielu pozornych sprzeczności. Pod względem udziału kobiet w populacji studentów zajmuje ...
    • Ku dywersyfikacji: polityka gospodarcza Kataru 

      Górak-Sosnowska, Katarzyna (Ibidem, 2009)
      Katar należy do najzamożniejszych krajów świata, z PKB per capita w wysokości 63 tys. USD (2006)2. Od kilku lat państwo to cechuje się wysokim wzrostem gospodarczym, który w 2006 r. osiągnął 8,8%3. Wraz z Arabią Saudyjską, ...
    • Islamic political movement in Malaysia 

      Jelonek, Adam (Katedra Arabistyki i Islamistyki, Uniwersytet Warszawski, 2004)
      The global revival of Islam that began in the early 1970s has been widely discussed. The resurgence of Islam has predominantly been a political phenomenon that emerged when the existing social and political agenda of ...
    • Grammatical redundancy and the process of teaching literary Arabic 

      Siwiec, Paweł (Katedra Arabistyki i Islamistyki, Uniwersytet Warszawski, 2004)
      Redundancy in the literary Arabic is particularly significant on the grammatical level. It manifests itself in the omission of a number of morphological and syntactical formants in the spoken language like the indefinite ...
    • Women on the Arab labour market. Option becoming reality 

      Górak-Sosnowska, Katarzyna (Katedra Arabistyki i Islamistyki, Uniwersytet Warszawski, 2004)
      The key potential of Arab economies, currently rather turning into their curse, is the human capital. According to the Arab Human Development Report 2002 there are approximately 6 million entrants yearly to the Arab labour ...
    • Alcohol and its Consumption in Medieval Cairo. The Story of a Habit 

      Lewicka, Paulina B. (Katedra Arabistyki i Islamistyki, Uniwersytet Warszawski, 2004)
      Contrary to what the Islamic prohibition of intoxicants might imply, the alcoholic beverages in medieval Cairo were not universally scorned. The attitude towards drinking depended on the time in history and the social ...
    • The Nile River in Muslim Geographical Sources 

      Nazmi, Ahmad (Katedra Arabistyki i Islamistyki, Uniwersytet Warszawski, 2004)
      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 ...
    • Search for identity in modern Arabic prose 

      Machut-Mendecka, Ewa (Katedra Arabistyki i Islamistyki, Uniwersytet Warszawski, 2004)
      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 ...
    • Muḥammad’s Visit to Aṭ-Ṭā’if 

      Saffarini, Hussein (Katedra Arabistyki i Islamistyki, Uniwersytet Warszawski, 1998)
      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 ...
    • Mohamed Heikal, Secret Channels. The Inside Story of the Arab-Israeli Peace negotiations, Harper Collins Publishers, London 1996, 572 pp. 

      Jamsheer, Hassan (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.
    • Abū al-‘Ibar al-Hāšimī. Unknown poet, writer and nadīm at caliphs’ court 

      Ostafin, Barbara (Katedra Arabistyki i Islamistyki, Uniwersytet Warszawski, 2002)
      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 ...
    • The world of kebab. 
Arabs and gastronomy in Warsaw 

      Nowaczek-Walczak, Magdalena (Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw, 2011)
      This essay is a result of fieldwork carried out by me between April and August 2011 in various restaurants serving Arabic food in Warsaw. It is based on 30 in­depth interviews not only with the owners of venues, but also ...
    • Muslims in Europe: different communities, one discourse? Adding the Central and Eastern European perspective 

      Górak-Sosnowska, Katarzyna (Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw, 2011)
      There is an old Polish saying, “każda pliszka swój ogonek chwali”1 meaning that everyone emphasizes their good points. Being a representative of a country of approximately 40 thousand Muslims (for around 38 million citizens) ...
    • Literature of the Polish Tatars 

      Danecki, Janusz (Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw, 2011)
      The literature of Polish Tatars reflects their complicated history. A specific trait of the Polish­Lithuanian­Belarusian Tatar population is their use of Arabic script for the notation of their Slavic language as early as ...
    • Muslims 
in Poland
 and Eastern Europe. Widening the European Discourse on Islam 

      Górak-Sosnowska, Katarzyna (Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw, 2011)
      This book aims to fill this gap by describing Muslim communities and their experiences in Central and Eastern Europe, both in countries with marginal Muslim populations, often not exceeding 1% (e.g. Hungary and Lithuania), ...
    • Magic and realism of the desert (The prose of Ibrāhīm al-Kawnī) 

      Machut-Mendecka, Ewa (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. ...
    • Women in Islam. Tradition and modernity 

      Jamsheer, Hassan (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 ...