What 'Isa ibn Hisham Told Us : : or, A Period of Time, Volume One / / Muhammad al-Muwaylihi; Roger Allen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter NYUP / FUP Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: al-Muwaylihi, Muhammad,
• 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 ; 54
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

With What 'Isa ibn Hisham Told Us, the Library of Arabic Literature brings readers an acknowledged masterpiece of early twentieth-century Arabic prose. Penned by the Egyptian journalist Muhammad al-Muwaylihi, this exceptional title was first introduced in serialized form in his family's pioneering newspaper Misbah 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 'Isa ibn Hisham 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 'Isa ibn Hisham 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 'Isa ibn Hisham 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-Muwaylihi 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 'Isa ibn Hisham Told Us is invaluable both for its sociological insight into colonial Egypt and its pioneering role in Arabic literary history.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Letter from the General Editor -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Note on the Text and Translation -- Notes to the Introduction -- Miṣbāḥ al-sharq 21, September 8, 1898 -- Miṣbāḥ al-sharq 23, September 22, 1898 -- Miṣbāḥ al-sharq 24, September 29, 1898 -- Miṣbāḥ al-sharq 30, November 10, 1898 -- Miṣbāḥ al-sharq 31, November 17, 1898 -- Miṣbāḥ al-sharq 32, November 24, 1898 -- Miṣbāḥ al-sharq 34, December 8, 1898 -- Miṣbāḥ al-sharq 35, December 15, 1898 -- Miṣbāḥ al-sharq 39, January 12, 1899 -- Miṣbāḥ al-sharq 40, January 19, 1899 -- Miṣbāḥ al-sharq 41, January 26, 1899 -- Miṣbāḥ al-sharq 42, February 2, 1899 -- Miṣbāḥ al-sharq 43, February 9, 1899 -- Miṣbāḥ al-sharq 44, February 16, 1899 -- Miṣbāḥ al-sharq 48, March 23, 1899 -- Miṣbāḥ al-sharq 49, March 30, 1899 -- Miṣbāḥ al-sharq 50, April 6, 1899 -- Miṣbāḥ al-sharq 54, May 11, 1899 -- Miṣbāḥ al-sharq 55, May 18, 1899 -- Miṣbāḥ al-sharq 57, June 1, 1899 -- Miṣbāḥ al-sharq 58, June 8, 1899 -- Miṣbāḥ al-sharq 59, June 15, 1899 -- Miṣbāḥ al-sharq 63, July 13, 1899 -- Miṣbāḥ al-sharq 64, July 20, 1899 -- Miṣbāḥ al-sharq 68, August 17, 1899 -- Miṣbāḥ al-sharq 69, August 24, 1899 -- Miṣbāḥ al-sharq 71, September 7, 1899 -- Miṣbāḥ al-sharq 72, September 14, 1899 -- Miṣbāḥ al-sharq 74, September 28, 1899 -- Notes -- Index -- About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute -- About the Typefaces -- Titles Published by the Library of Arabic Literature -- About the Editor-Translator