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Vintage Humour The Islamic Wine Poetry of Abu Nuwas
ISBN: HB: 9781849048972, Hurst Publishers, January 2018
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Abu Nuwas, the pre-eminent bacchic bard of the classical Arabic canon, was loved and reviled in equal measure for his lyrical celebration of Abbasid Baghdad's dissolute nightlife, his cutting satires of religion and the clergy,...
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£18,99
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Poetry and Politics in the Modern Arab World
ISBN: HB: 9781849043199, Hurst Publishers, April 2016
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The representation in poetic form of political events and ideas in the Arab world since the nineteenth century is this book's principal theme. Atef Alshaer demonstrates an integral connection between poetry and politics, reflec...
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£35,00
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Men at War What Fiction Tells us About Conflict, From the Iliad to Catch-22
ISBN: HB: 9781849042895, Hurst Publishers, February 2014
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Since Achilles first stormed into our imagination, literature has introduced its readers to truly unforgettable martial characters. In "Men at War" Christopher Coker discusses some of the most famous of these fictional creation...
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£27,50
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Poetry of the Taliban
ISBN: PB: 9781849043052, Hurst Publishers, October 2013
244 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Overlooked by many as mere propaganda, poetry offers an unfettered insight into the wider worldview of the Afghan Taliban. This collection of over two hundred poems draws upon Afghan tradition and the recent past as much as upo...
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£12,99
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Afghanistan in Ink Literature Between Diaspora and Nation
ISBN: HB: 9781849042048, Hurst Publishers, February 2013
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Afghanistan in Ink" uses a wide and largely unknown corpus of twentieth century Afghan Dari and Pashto literature to show not only how Afghans have reflected on their modern history, but also how the state has repeatedly sough...
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£35,00
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History of Indian Literature in English
ISBN: PB: 9781850656814, Hurst Publishers, March 2003
450 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! For anyone interested in the story of English in India, or in the finest English storytellers of India, this book, an illustrated history of two hundred years of Indian literature in English, should be a useful companion. It di...
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£45,00
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