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ARAB 399

Special Topics

3 units

Fall 2025

Topics

  • Companion
  • The translation movement Unit 2. Al-Kindi:
  • reception of Greek philosophy” Anthology
  • A systematization of philosophy
  • A new approach
  • Anthology
  • thought” Anthology
  • Illuminationism Unit 8. Mulla Sadra:
  • Merging philosophical Sufism into philosophy Review

Readings

Winter 2020

Topics

  • Arab cultural expression
  • Colonialism and postcolonialism
  • Tradition and identity
  • Literature, cinema, and music

Readings

  • al-Jabarti, Abd al-Rahman. “Marvelous Legacies of Biographies and Events,” in Louis Awad, The Literature of Ideas in Egypt, pp. 8–24.
    required
  • al-Tahtawi, Rifaʿa. Selection in Louis Awad, The Literature of Ideas in Egypt, pp. 25–43.
    required
  • Sharabi, Hisham. Arab Intellectuals and the West, pp. 1–23.
    required
  • Darwish, Mahmoud. Selected poems.
    required
  • Boulus, Sargon. Selected poems.
    required
  • Djebar, Assia. “The Foreigner, Sister of the Foreigner Woman.” The Heinemann Book of Contemporary African Short Stories, pp. 121–128.
    required
  • Bakr, Salwa. “That Beautiful Undiscovered Voice.” The Wiles of Men and Other Stories. Translated by Denys Johnson-Davies. Quartet, 1992, pp. 57–70.
    required
  • Kachachi, Inaam, Buthayna al-Nasiri, and Alia Mamdouh. Three stories from Under the Naked Sky: Short Stories from the Arab World.
    required
  • Mahfouz, Naguib. Midaq Alley.
    unspecified
  • Salih, Tayeb. Season of Migration to the North.
    unspecified
  • Kanafani, Ghassan. Men in the Sun.
    unspecified
  • al-Shaykh, Hanan. The Story of Zahra.
    unspecified
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