What ʿĪsā ibn Hishām Told Us : : or, A Period of Time, Volume Two / / Muḥammad al-Muwayliḥī; ed. by Roger Allen.

• VerfasserIn: al-Muwayliḥī, Muḥammad,
• HerausgeberIn: Allen, Roger,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Library of Arabic Literature ; 60
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

With What ʿĪsā ibn Hishām Told Us, the Library of Arabic Literature brings readers an acknowledged masterpiece of early twentieth-century Arabic prose. Penned by the Egyptian journalist Muḥammad al-Muwayliḥī, this exceptional title was first introduced in serialized form in his family’s pioneering newspaper Miṣbāḥ al-Sharq (Light of the East), on which this edition is based, and later published in book form in 1907. Widely hailed for its erudition and its mordant wit, What ʿĪsā ibn Hishām Told Us was embraced by Egypt’s burgeoning reading public and soon became required reading for generations of Egyptian school students.Bridging classical genres and the emerging tradition of modern Arabic fiction, What ʿĪsā ibn Hishām Told Us is divided into two parts, the second of which was only added to the text with the fourth edition of 1927. Sarcastic in tone and critical in outlook, the book relates the excursions of its narrator ʿĪsā ibn Hishām and his companion, the Pasha, through a rapidly Westernized Cairo at the height of British occupation, providing vivid commentary of a society negotiating—however imperfectly—the clash of imported cultural values and traditional norms of conduct, law, and education. The “Second Journey” takes the narrator to Paris to visit the Exposition Universelle of 1900, where al-Muwayliḥī casts the same relentlessly critical eye on European society, modernity, and the role of Western imperialism as it ripples across the globe.Paving the way for the modern Arabic novel, What ʿĪsā ibn Hishām Told Us is invaluable both for its sociological insight into colonial Egypt and its pioneering role in Arabic literary history.A bilingual Arabic-English edition.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Letter from the General Editor -- Table of Contents -- What ʿĪsā Ibn Hishām Told Us, Volume Two -- Miṣbāḥ al-sharq 80, November 9, 1899 -- Miṣbāḥ al-sharq 87, January 4, 1900 -- Miṣbāḥ al-sharq 88, January 11, 1900 -- Miṣbāḥ al-sharq 89, January 18, 1900 -- Miṣbāḥ al-sharq 90, January 25, 1900 -- Miṣbāḥ al-sharq 91, February 8, 1900 -- Miṣbāḥ al-sharq 92, February 15, 1900 -- Miṣbāḥ al-sharq 103, May 11, 1900 -- Miṣbāḥ al-sharq 104, May 18, 1900 -- Miṣbāḥ al-sharq 105, May 25, 1900 -- Miṣbāḥ al-sharq 106, June 1, 1900 -- Miṣbāḥ al-sharq 107, June 8, 1900 -- Miṣbāḥ al-sharq 116, August 17, 1900 -- Miṣbāḥ al-sharq 117, August 34, 1900 -- Miṣbāḥ al-sharq 118, August 31, 1900 -- Miṣbāḥ al-sharq 121, September 21, 1900 -- Miṣbāḥ al-sharq 123, October 5, 1900 -- Miṣbāḥ al-sharq 126, October 26, 1900 -- Miṣbāḥ al-sharq 130, November 23, 1900 -- Miṣbāḥ al-sharq 133, December 14, 1900 -- Miṣbāḥ al-sharq 192, February 14, 1902 -- Miṣbāḥ al-sharq 193, February 21, 1902 -- Miṣbāḥ al-sharq 196, March 14, 1902 -- Notes -- Glossary of Names and Terms -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute -- About the Typefaces -- Titles Published by the Library of Arabic Literature -- About the Editor–Translator