| Edition |
[First edition]. |
| Description |
viii, 310 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 306-310. |
| Contents |
The French in Cairo / Al-Jabarti -- Holy war in Africa / Abdullah Dan Fodio -- The history of the forty veziers -- Fourteen poems / Mirza Ghalib -- Two Ottoman poets -- The Shah visits Paris / Nasir Al-Din Shah -- Religions and human progress / Muhammad Abduh -- The virtues of the Arabs / Abd Al-Rahman Al-Kawakibi -- The ideal of nationalism / Ziya Gökalp -- Secrets of the self / Mohammed Iqbal -- Instant justice / Tewfik Al-Hakim -- Uncle Mitwalli / Mahmud Taymur -- Love's wave / Ömer Seyfettin -- Sheherazade revisited / Tewfik Al-Hakim -- The convent school / Resat Nuri Güntekin -- The Kefr Ammeh incident / Marmaduke Pickthall -- A change of faith / Halide Edib -- Student days / Taha Hussein -- Arabic and Persian poetry -- Is religion possible? / Mohammed Iqbal -- Lawrence and Churchill / King Abdullah -- Solitude / Sadegh Hedayat -- Tales from the tribes -- Zaabalawi / Nagib Mahfouz -- Twilight in Delhi / Ahmed Ali -- Seven poems / Chairil Anwar -- Looking forward / Muhammad Aga Khan -- The Merdeka man / Mochtar Lubis -- A role in search of a hero / Gamal Abdel Nasser -- The apostles' self-reproach / Muhammad Kamel Hussein -- My father / Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi -- At Mustapha's café / Driss Ben Hamed Charhadi -- Somali love songs and a reaction -- The doum tree of Wad Hamid / Taieb Saleh -- Twenty-one sayings / Muhammad Hejazi. |
| Subject |
Oriental literature -- Translations into English.
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| ISBN |
0030536855 |
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