Advanced Arabic Literary Reader: For Students of Modern Standard Arabic

405 Pages·2015·5.3 MB·English

by  Jonas M. Elbousty

Advanced Arabic Literary Reader
Advanced Arabic Literary Reader is a truly representative collection of literary extracts from
across the Arabic-speaking world. Extracts from each country in the Arab world have been
carefully selected, with a balance of both male and female writers and prominent and emerging
voices, providing a unique window into the Arab world.
Suitable for both class use and independent study, each extract is supported by an introduction
to the author, pre-reading activities, comprehension questions and discussion questions. These
activities are designed to help learners expand and reinforce their vocabulary, develop their oral
and written proficiency and stimulate further exploration of the cultural and historical background
of the texts.
Written entirely in Arabic, the Advanced Arabic Literary Reader is an essential text for advanced
students who wish to further their reading, speaking, and writing ability in Modern Standard
Arabic. Free audio recordings of the extracts are available online at www.routledge.com/books/
details/9781138828698/ to enable students to improve listening skills.
Jonas M. Elbousty is the Director of the Arabic Summer program at Yale University where
he teaches Arabic Language and Literature in the department of Near Eastern Languages
and Civilizations. He recently co-published Vitality and Dynamism: Interstitial Dialogues of
Language, Politics, and Religion in Morocco’s Literary Tradition.
Muhammad Ali Aziz holds a PhD from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He taught at
Princeton University and at the University of Michigan. He is currently the Arabic Program
coordinator at Yale University where he teaches Arabic Language and Literature in the department
of Near Eastern Language and Civilizations. He is the author of Religion and Mysticism in Early
Islam: Theology and Sufism in Yemen.
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Advanced Arabic
Literary Reader
For Students of Modern
Standard Arabic
Jonas M. Elbousty
Muhammad Ali Aziz
First published 2016
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Dedicated to
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&
Adam Elbousty
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Contents
Foreword x
Acknowledgments xii
Introduction xiii
Yemen
● Aziza, Abdallah, Arakanha al-Faqīh 1
● Dammāj, Zayd, Tāhish al-Hubān 7
● Abdulwalī, Muhammad, Al-Arad Yā Salmā 13
● Al-Ahdal, Wajdī, Phaylasūf al-Karantīna 18
● Al-Iryānī, Abdallah, Al-Zāriqeh 23
Saudi
● Khāl, Abdu, Tarmī bi Sharar 29
● Fuzai‘, Khalīl, Ba‘d al-Zann 36
● Munīf, Abdulrahmān, al-Nihāyāt 41
● Jumbī or Jambī, Ihsān, al-Mawt alā al-Hawā 47
Oman
● Al-Ma‘marī, Alī, Bin Sūla‘ 54
● Al-Rahabī, Mahmūd, Birkat al-Nisyān 61
Emirate
● Al-Nu‘aimī, Rashid, Shāhinda 66
● Al-Murr, Muhammad, al-Fursa al-Akhīra 73
Bahrain
● Al-Mutawah, Masooma, Zill lā Tasa’uhu al-Shams (al-Qasr al-Mal‘ūn) 81
● Khalifa, Abdallah, Ughniyat al-Mā’ 87
Qatar
● Fāizz, Jamāl, al-‘AAid 93
● Khalifa, Delāl, Ashjār al-Barārī al-Ba’īda 99
● Al-Nu‘aimī, Huda, Abāteel (Fī al-Hufra) 105
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Kuwait
● Al-San‘ūsī, Su‘ūd, Sāq al-Bambū 111
● Al-‘Uthmān, Layla, Wasmiyya Takhruj min al-Bahr 119
● Ismael, Fahd Ismael, al-Shiyāh 126
Iraq
● Al-Sa’dāwī, Ahmad, Frankishtine 133
● Faramān, Ghā’ib, Alām al-Sayyid Ma‘rūf 140
● Khalaf, Ahmad, Hāmil al-Hawā 146
Syria
● ‘Ujailī, ‘Abdussalām, al-Khayl wal-Nisā’ 152
● Rifaa‘iyyah, Yāsīn, Ahdāb 158
● Al-Rāhib, Hānī, al-Wabā’ 165
● Mīna, Hanna, Hīn Māt al-Nahd 171
Lebanon
● Al-Shaykh, Hanān, Man Yu‘allimunī al-Biyānu 177
● Subh, Alwaiya, Shai’ Ismuhu al-Ghrām 182
● Khūrī, Elyās, Bāb al-Shams 188
● Al-Da’īf, Rasheed, Tablīt al-Bahr 194
Jordan
● Nasrallah, Ibrāhīm, Shurfat Rajul al-Thalj (al-Jarīma) 201
● Al-Tamīmī, Fayrūz, Ka’nnahā Mizha 207
● Al-Razzāz, Mu’nis, al-Namrūd 214
● Hilsa, Ghālib, Al-Wuqūf alā al-Atlāl 222
● ‘Ayyāsh, Sāmiyah, Farāwla wa Ka‘k wa Shukulāta 228
Palestine
● Kanafānī, Ghassān, Rijāl Fī al-Shams 234
● Zāhir, Hādī, al-Qātil al-Majhūl 240
● Al-Raymāwī, Mahmūd, Hulm Haqīqī 247
Egypt
● Al-Aswānī, ‘Alā, ‘Imārat Ya‘qūbiān 255
● Mahfouz, Najīb, Al‘āish fī al-Haqīqa 261
● Al-Sa’dāwī, Nawāl, Imra’a ‘ind nuqtat al-Sifr 267
● ‘Abdulqadduus, Ihsān, Fī Baytina Rajul 273
Sudan
● Sālih, al-Tayyib, Mawsim al-Hijra ilā al-Shimāl 280
● Ibrāhīm, Ibrāhīm, Nās min Kāfā 287
● Al-Sirr, Amīr Tāj, Ard al-Sudān 296
Contents ix
Libya
● Al-Kawnī, Ibrāhīm, al-Tibr 303
Tunis
● Al-‘ayyādī, Abū Bakr, Warqāt min dafter al-Khawf 308
● Al-Darghūthī, Ibrāhīm, ‘Arabat al-Daraja al-Mumtāza 315
● Al-Sālmī, al-Habīb, Matahāt al-Raml 325
● Al-Mabkhūt, Shukrī, al-Talyānī 332
Algiers
● Mustaghānmī, Ahlām, Dhākirat al-Jasad 339
● Al-A‘raj, Wāsīnī, Tawq al-Yāsmīn 345
Morocco
● Shukrī, Muhammad, al-Khubz al-Hāfī 352
● Al-Madīnī, Ahmad, Ta‘m al-Karaz 358
● Al-Zifzāf, Muhammad, Al-Af’ā wal-Bahr 366
● Kilito, Abdulfattāh, Bayna al-Haraka wal-Sukūn 372
● Al-Ash‘arī, Muhammad, al-Qaws wal-Farāsha 378
Mauritania
● Sālem, Muhammad Wuld, Ashyā’ min ‘ālam qadīm 385