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Adonis: Towards a New Arab Culture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2009

Issa J. Boullata
Affiliation:
Institute of Islamic Studies Mcgill University

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Review Essay
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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NOTES

1 Adonis, (⊂Alī Ahhmad Sa⊂īd), Fātiha li-nihāyāt al-qarn: bayānāt min ajl thaqāfa ⊂arabiyya jadīda (Beirut: Dār al-⊂Awda, 1980), p. 225. This book of collected essays and some interviews constitutes the major source of this review essay.Google Scholar

2 Adonis has elaborated this argument in his three-volume book, al-Thābit wa'l-mutahawwil: bahth fi⊂l-ittibā⊂ wa'l-ibdā⊂ ⊂ind al-⊂Arab (Beirut: Dār al-⊂Awda, 1974–1978). Aspects of this argument appeared in an earlier book of his, Zaman al-shi'r (Beirut: Dār al-⊂Awda, 1972).