INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
TEHRAN-- Modern Arabic Literature: The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature modified by Muhammad Mustafa Badawi has been published in
Persian.Mola is the publisher of the Persian edition, which brings painstaking information by translator Amir-Hossein Allahyari.This volume
of the Cambridge History of Arabic Literature offers the very first authoritative, comprehensive, crucial study of imaginative writing in
Arabic from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day
The rise of secular education, printing and journalism developed a brand-new reading public, and Western ideas and literary forms,
especially the unique, the narrative and drama, ended up being influential
This book analyzes the efforts made by Arab men and women to adopt the imported types along with the indigenous literary custom to satisfy
the requirements of the contemporary world
Estimated material is given in English translation and there is an extensive bibliography.Badawi was a scholar of English and Arabic
He was a Research Fellow of St
Antonys College at the University of Oxford from 1967 to 1969, and was then elected to the Colleges Governing Body
Upon retirement in 1992, he ended up being an Emeritus Fellow.Born in Egypt in 1925, he received his Ph.D
at the University of London in 1954, with a thesis on Coleridges criticism of Shakespeare, later released in 1973 by Cambridge University
Press as Coleridge: Critic of Shakespeare, which was reprinted in 2010
According to WorldCat, the book is held in 554 libraries
He then ended up being Assistant Professor of English at the University of Cairo and relocated to Oxford University in 1964, where he
lectured at Brasenose College until retirement in 1992
Antonys College (1967-2012), where he was the very first lecturer in Modern Arabic at the brand-new Middle East Centre of the college.He
left an endowment at Oxford University for the payment of the Mustafa Badawi Prize in Modern Arabic Literature which is awarded for the
very best English essay on some aspect of modern-day Arabic literature of up to 15,000 words, which showed level of sensitivity to
contemporary Arabic literary texts along with some originality and ability in crucial analysis
Photo: Front cover of the Persian edition of Modern Arabic Literature: The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature
