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Notes on the Traffic between Theory and Arabic Literature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2011

Mohamed-Salah Omri
Mohamed-Salah Omri*
Affiliation:
Institute of Oriental Studies and St. John's College, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; e-mail: mohamed-salah.omri@orinst.ox.ac.uk
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Extract

In most Western universities, Arabic literature is rarely studied by itself or for itself. It is subject to disciplinary traffic and intersections, on the one hand, and to what might be called a political predicament, on the other. With this in mind, I outline below some thoughts underpinned by two examples of the state of the art in Arabic literary studies, published four decades apart.

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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 43 , Issue 4 , November 2011 , pp. 731 - 733
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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NOTES

1 Stetkevych, Jaroslav, Arabic Poetry and Orientalism, ed. Khazendar, Walid (Oxford: St. John's College Research Centre, 2004)Google Scholar.

2 Ibid., 19.

3 Ibid., 18.

4 “From Orientalists to Arabists: The Shift in Arabic Literary Studies: Essays Dedicated to Roger Allen,” special issue of Journal of Arabic Literature 41 (2010).