In Hajj travelogues Richard van Leeuwen outlines a neglected field of research. Apart from a description of important travelogues, the texts are situated in their discursive and historical contexts, and analysed as a medium to construct and co...Loe edasi...
Narrating the pilgrimage to Mecca discusses how being situated in a specific cultural and historical context informs the meanings that pilgrims attribute to their experiences in Mecca. The book provides unique insights in Islam’s rich and evol...Loe edasi...
In The Thousand and One Nights and Twentieth-Century Fiction, Richard van Leeuwen challenges conventional perceptions of the development of 20th-century prose by arguing that Thousand and One Nights, as an intertextual model, has been a...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Apr-2019, Hardback, Kirjastus: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9789462988798)
Antoine Gallands French translation of the 1001 Nights started appearing in 1704. One year later a pirate edition was printed in The Hague, followed by many others. Galland entertained a lively correspondence on the subject with the Dutch intellectu...Loe edasi...
In The Thousand and One Nights and Twentieth-Century Fiction, Richard van Leeuwen challenges conventional perceptions of the development of 20th-century prose by arguing that Thousand and One Nights, as an intertextual model, has been a...Loe edasi...
In Narratives of Kingship in Eurasian Empires, 1300-1800 Richard van Leeuwen analyses representations and constructions of the idea of kingship in fictional texts of various genres, especially belonging to the intermediate layer between popular an...Loe edasi...
Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden, The Netherlands, September 2013-March 2014, this volume is the English-language translation of the Dutch-language original. The portraits are both visual and n...Loe edasi...
This book examines The Thousand and One Nights in terms of the tales narrative and in particular using the idea of the journey and mobility as a tool to understanding the work....Loe edasi...
In many stories of the well-known masterpiece of Arabic literature, the Thousand and one nights, themes and motifs of space and travel are of essential importance for the structure of the narrative. This volume discusses these themes and shows that t...Loe edasi...
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Marking 300 years since the collection of Middle Eastern stories was first introduced to European readers, this reference provides information on enduring questions and issues; summaries and discussions of 551 specific stories that have appeared in v...Loe edasi...
In this study the author proposes an integrative approach to the phenomenon of Muslim pious foundations, or waqfs. The evolution of the institution is analyzed from the perspective of the formation of power systems....Loe edasi...
This book analyzes the relations between the Maronite notables and the Church in the context of socio-economic transformations in Mount Lebanon in the period 1736-1840. Special attention is given to the role of waqfs and the influences of the Vatica...Loe edasi...
