The Legacy of Islam

McMahon, A. Philip; Arnold, Thomas; Guillaume, Alfred

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“…Moreover, the Arabian concepts of troubadour poets were conceived intelligibly among Europeans (Arnold & Guillaume, 1931).…”

Section: International Journal Of English Language and Literature Stu...mentioning

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Intertextuality of selected Arabic and Western literary works

Ababneh

2024

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This paper conducts a comparative analysis of the literary-cultural impact of Arabic literature on Western literature. This research focuses on three literary comparisons taken from works that belong to Arabic and Western literature by means of a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the target textual data. The study chooses to address the following items: the Spanish play by Lope de Vega (1562-1635), La Doncella Teodor which has a similar Arabic version among the Arab tales of the Arabian Nights, the literary influence of the story of Zarqa al-Yamamah on Shakespeare’s play Macbeth and the literary mirroring of the Arabic story of Solomon and the Angel of Death onto Marquez’s novel Flee to Samarra by unveiling the aspects of the literary impact of each Arabic literary item. The study illustrates elements of intertextuality and functionality that close the gap between text and culture on each spectrum as well as between the Occident and the Orient by looking at the degree of similarity between these stories. This study contributes to offering insights into the literary intertextuality between Arabic literature and Western literature (Spanish and English) while also sheds light on the cross-cultural perceptions between the two forms of literature by examining the textual, cultural and psychological aspects of each extract compared with each other.

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“…Moreover, the Arabian concepts of troubadour poets were conceived intelligibly among Europeans (Arnold & Guillaume, 1931).…”

Section: International Journal Of English Language and Literature Stu...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Intertextuality of selected Arabic and Western literary works

Ababneh

2024

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“…By the 1840s Dickens and other fiction writers took another trend by sympathizing with the working class and colonized countries, and the (literally) disenfranchised generally, stressing achievements in politics, economics science, technology and spiritual feelings (Stonky, 1983). Arnold and Guillaume (1931) argued that English Romanticism in literature was influenced by the Arabian Nights, which contributed to gothic romance and in reforming the English medieval and non-classical taste. They added that the most significant work reflecting the influence of the Arabian Nights in the Nineteenth Century was Lalla Rookh (1817) by Thomas Moore.…”

Section: Victorian Literature and Islammentioning

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“…Numerous works had Eastern names and flavours, such as Sohrab and Rustum (1853) by Matthew Arnold and Ferishtah's Fanciesi (1884) by Robert Browning. They concluded their argument by mentioning that the most compatible Arabian model in English prose literature during the Victorian period was The Shaving of Shagpat ( 1856) by George Meredith (Arnold and Guillaume, 1931). Khattak (2008) mentioned that Lalla Rookh was based on an Indian plot; it earned the praise of many Indian historians, although the author had never been to the Subcontinent.…”

Section: Victorian Literature and Islammentioning

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Images of Arabs and Islam in Burton’s Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah

Alseadoon,

Nash

2023

المجلة العربية للعلوم و نشر الأبحاث

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The study aimed to discuss the position of Arabs and Islam in Western culture, concentrating on the British Victorians whose main conception of Arabia concerned the desert and the exotic orient. The increasing political and economic interest of the British government in Arabia led to more focus on Muslim Arabs in the Near East and the Arabian Peninsula, beginning with Napoleon’s conquest of Egypt c. 1799, and escalating as Suez and the Ottoman Empire became more intertwined with the British imperialism. Missions and tours for various reasons went to the Near East and the Arabian Peninsula to discover and bring information for the Western Empires specially, the Royal Geographical Society. On the other hand, the growing body of science concerning the Arab world came under the umbrella of orientalism, including all writers, novelists and travelogues concerned with ‘the orient’. One of the oriental travellers was Burton, whose mission to visit the two Islamic holy places Al-Madinah and Mecca was a classic and romantic one. Burton’s mission was not only to supply his sponsors with geographical and scientific information about Suez, the Arabian Peninsula and the two holy places, but he had other personal motivations that affected his work; Personal Narrative of A Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah. Continuously, the study applies investigative, descriptive analysis and critical analysis methods to answer the above questions. The study consists of four sections. Section one presents an introduction in five subsections: problem of the study, hypotheses of the study, significance of the study, methodology of the study and finally, structure of the study. Section two presents Victorians’ views of Muslims in three subsections: Victorian thinking and culture in Britain; Islam in the Victorian literature; and Victorian travelogues. Section three comprises a thematic analysis of Burton's Pilgrimage, concentrating on his liberal and ethnographic interests that motivated his imperialism. At the last section, the study discusses the final results, the study limitations and recommendations for the studies about Burton.

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What Every Political Leader in America and the West should Know about the Arab-Islamic World

Karoui

2008

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The Legacy of Islam

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Intertextuality of selected Arabic and Western literary works

Intertextuality of selected Arabic and Western literary works

Images of Arabs and Islam in Burton’s Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah

What Every Political Leader in America and the West should Know about the Arab-Islamic World

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