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 literature.
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.
He became a fellow of St.
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 .
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