General * Bibliographical/Biographical Sources

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The Database of Arabic Literature in Western Research (DAL) is an easy-to-use, searchable, internet-based bibliographic database of Arabic literature in western research. Search Keyword and other Browse links on the left hand bar, as well as Simple Search and Advanced Search, provide easy access to detailed, annotated and content-enriched bibliographic records of books, articles, chapters of books and reviews written in English since the movement of translation and commentary of Arabic literary texts first began in the West.” - Journals of the Arab Writers Union
- al-Warraq A depositary of classical Arab works in literature, history, fiqh, etc. Membership is required to access the library. It posts a list of the “Most read works” which is headed by A Thousand and One Nights.
- Arabic Short Story / Jubayr Milayhan. It regularly presents contributions and gives a record of readers and also comments on the short story. Contributions come especially from Egypt, Syria and Iraq as well as Saudi Arabia.
- Arabic literature @ Britannica Online
- al-Rabitah al-Qalamiyah (The Pen Bond)
- The Role of Women in Arabic Literature
- Arabic Literature (in English)
- Bibliographie Monde arabe
- al-Âdâb - Thematical archive 1953 عام نشأت الآداب مجلة
- Majallat ash-shu'arâ' / The Palestinian House of Poetry
- Majallat al-aqwâs / The Palestinian House of Poetry
- Adab.com Arabic Poetry ENGLISH الشعر الفصيح | الشعر العامي | أدباء العرب | الشعر العالمي | الديوان الصوتي |
- kikah = كيكا " Kikah is an independent electronic cultural journal founded by the Iraqi writer Samuel Shimon in March 2003. Its primary objective is to encourage the dissemination of new writing from the Arab world, as well as translations from world literature."
- Nusûs 'irâqiyya journal of the Iraqi writer (al-Kâtib al-'irâqî)
- La rivista di Arablit ( Publisher: Roma : Istituto per l'Oriente C. A. Nallino. Start Year: 2011 Frequency: Semi-annually Language: Italian ISSN: 2239-4168)
- Rowayat - Literary Journal emerging from Egypt
"A space for both emerging and established writers, who dream and write in English. This literary journal, will give a voice to Egyptian writers who express themselves creatively in English ... Also to be included in this journal are Egyptian writers who are abroad, and foreign writers who live in Egypt ... This journal is to feature/highlight only works of fiction ... Any non-fiction will be either interviews with renowned/successful authors or about something relating to English fiction writing in Egypt ... The journal will be issued bi-annually. Arabic fiction already has several literary journals. So Arabic fiction will not be included and neither will Arabic in translation." - Bibliography of Doctoral Dissertations in English on Arabic-Western Literary Relations, 1902-1997
- Arabian Nights Bibliography / compiled by Ulrich Marzolph [A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z]
- Bibliography of the Arabian Nights in Egypt compiled by Rasoul Aliakbari, University of Alberta, Canada.
- Middle East North Africa Lit. group on Goodreads
- Online Arabic Literature COURSES * An-Najah University in Nablus
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The Arabian Nights or The Thousand and One Nights
Classical Sources
- الأغاني Kitāb al-aghānī taʼlīf Abī al-Faraj al-Iṣfahānī.[PDF]
- The Arabian Nights (uncensored version, 1850) / by Sir Richard F. Burton
- Arabian Nights Bibliography [ONLINE] compiled by Ulrich Marzolph.
"The present Bibliography aims to list a representative selection of research publications on the Arabian Nights (Alf Laylah wa-laylah, Les Mille et une Nuits, Tausendundeine Nacht etc.) published in European languages, while also including some important books and articles published in other languages. Initially being based on the bibliography in The Arabian Nights Encyclopedia (Marzolph and van Leeuwen 2004, 811–852), the present Bibliography bears witness to the renewed and continued interest in the Nights resulting from its tercentenary celebrations in 2004. Aiming to be comprehensive, but not necessarily exhaustive, the Bibliography at present lists more than 500 items. It is conceived as an ongoing project and will be updated at regular intervals. Most items quoted treat particular aspects of the Arabian Nights, with the exception of items discussing the scholars to whose endeavours we owe the most important European editions. Numerous publications bearing a secondary relevance for the study of the Nights have not been included. Also, editions of the Nights in international languages are not listed, while a number of them contain important essays on the history and character of the Nights. The compiler appreciates comments and critique as well as suggestions for items to be added. As a further service to the scholarly community, we offer to supply scans of the items listed below, most of which are available here. In the future, we aim to link pdf-scans to specific items that are out of copyright." - Travels of Ibn Batuta in Asia and Africa
- Secondary Works which Address Ibn `Asakir's Ta'rikh Madinat Dimashq
- Ibn Khaldûn on the Web
- Ibn Khaldun's Muqaddimah [Download full Arabic text .doc]
Arabic Poetry
General
- Adab.com Arabic Poetry
- THE METRES (wazn) Awzan al-shir al-Arabi / Safi al-Din al-Hilli.
- ARABIC Poetry / Arab gateway
- The Encyclopedia of Arabic Poetry Dubai, UAE was founded by Ali Mehilba. It has collected a fund of poetry of various types including Abbasid and Andalusian poetry
- Abu Dhabi National Library's poetry encyclopedia
- Al Adeeb Comprehensive Arabic Poetry and Literature
- The Hanged Poems, before 622 CE / Medieval Sourcebook: Pre-Islamic Arabia
- Arab Poetry [in Arabic]
- Arabic Poems [some English]
- The Phonology of Classical Arabic Meter / Chris Golston & Tomas Riad
Classic
(Jahiliyah [Pre-Islamic Arabia] & Early Islam)
---Antara &
--- Ablah
- Mu'allaqat = The Hanged Poems, before 622 CE
- Wahat al-Mu'allaqat = Oasis of "The Hanged Poems"
- Abu Tammam
- Ali Ibn Abi Talib
- Amr ibn Kulthum
- Antarah ibn Shaddad (525–615) عنترة
- Busayri
- Farazdaq, ca. 641-ca. 728
- Abu l-Hasan al-Husri (d. 1095)
- Imru' al-Qays
- Majnun Layla [a.k.a. Qays Ibn al-Mulawwah]
- The Man Who Loved Too Much : The Legend of Leyli and Majnun / by Jean-Pierre Guinhut, (French Ambassador to Azerbaijan) - Azerbaijan International, Autumn 1998 (6.3)
- Selections
- al-Mutanabbi
- al-Ma'arri
- Nabighah al-Dhubyani
- Imam al-shafi'i
- Tarafah ibn al-'Abd
- Al-Hakim al-Tirmidhi
- Al-Hakim al-Tirmidhi's (attrib.) Bayan al-Farq
- KITAB AL-`ILAL (A paper read at the 1960 annual meeting of the American Oriental Society held in New Haven, Connecticut, and updated in 2006)
- Urwah ibn al-Ward
- LAMIYAT AL ARAB
Modern
- Abou-Al-kacem El-chebbi الشابيالقاسمأبو
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Three Translations of Abu al-Qasim al-Shabi’s ‘If the People Wanted Life One Day’
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Tunisian Poet's Verses Inspire Arab Protesters (Arab Spring, 2011) / National Public Radio, USA
- Salah Abd al-Sabur
- Ra'id al-hadthah al-shiriyah (al-Hayat, 8/20/01, p. 12)
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Hasan Abdallah
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Ilya Abu Madi
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Adunis [a.k.a Ali Ahmad Said]
- Take me to God
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"Beyond the East/West: Towards a Culture of the Future" Delivered Wednesday, May 9, 2001 at Dartmouth College.
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On Adonis -- A Poet Responds, Some Further Remarks on Arabic Poetry / by Etel Adnan
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Adonis Indicts Arabic Poetry, Past and Present / By Elie Chalala
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An Arab Poet Who Dares to Differ (The New York Times, July 13, 2002)
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Tahiyyah ila Baghdad = A Salute to Baghdad (AL-Quds al-Arabi, 1 April 2003, p.1)
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Nass Ghayr Manshur 'An Ziyarah Wahidah ila Baghdad, 1969 (al-Hayat 5/15/2003: p. 12 [PDF])
- Syrian Poet Adonis Seen as Nobel Prize Frontrunner (By REUTERS Filed at 11:33 a.m. ET, October 1, 2003 )
- Adonis & Beirut / al-Hayat, Saturday, November 08, 2003, p. 16 [PDF-ARABIC]
- Adonis in Tunisia: Interviews to La Presse & al-Sabah newspapers
- The Arab Spring and Adunis' Revolution, in Context
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Abdullah al-Baradouni
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Yemen's Most Famous Poet Dies (August 30, 1999)
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- Abd al-Wahhab al-Bayati
- Mahmud Darweesh *محمود, درويش*
- "An al Insan (Oppression from a Palestinian Eye)
- "An al Umniyat
- Bitaqat hawiyah
- Ila Ummi ['Ashiq min Filastin : shi'r. Hayfa: Maktabat al-Nur, 1966. p. 29-31.]
- Muhammad
- Risalah min al manfa
- The Challenge
- Poetry of Arab Pain: Are Israeli Students Ready? (The New York Times, March 7, 2000)
- al-Karmel: majallah thaqâfiyyah (edited by the late Mahmûd Darwîsh, 1999-2006)
- Khalil Gibran جبران خليل جبران
- Ounsi El-Hajj أنسي الحاج
- Khalil Hawi
- Khalil Hawi: A Graceful Poet from the Vineyards of Lebanon / By Fuad Said Haddad (Middle East Quarterly, Vol. 2, No. 7, 1995)
- Ahmad Matar
- MuZaffar al-Nawwab
- Nizar Qabbani
- Atfal al hijarah
- Dars fi al rasm
- al-Ghadibun
- Gharnatah
- Hakim wa al usfur
- Hawamish
- Hubb ala al Faks
- Ikhtari!
- Jamilatun anti ka al manfa
- Man ana fi Amrika?
- Mata yulinun wafat al Arab (When will they announce the death of the Arabs)
- al Mutanabbi wa Umm Kulthum ala qaimat al tatbi'
- Nahr al ahzan
- Qariat al finjan
- Qasidat al huzn
- al-Quds
- Rashel Wa akhwatiha (London, May 1996, for Cana)
- Risalah min taht al ma
- Sammaytuk al-Janub
- Shuara al ard al muhtallah
- Shuun saghirah
- Tawq al yasamin
- uridu bunduqiyah
- Valentine
- Other selections (Imbiryaliyah; al Wahsh; wa qabluki kullu al nisa iftirad; al Hubb al muqaran; Azf munfarid ala al tablah, qurs al asbirin)
- MSANEWS ScholarsBase
- Poetry recital by Nizar Qabbani (Presented at AUB's Assembly Hall, January 30, 1995)
- Nizar Qabbani, Sensual Arab Poet, Dies at 75 (The New York Times, May 1, 1998)
- Sayyab السيّاب
- Bader Shakir al-Sayyab :: Jehat.com
- Badr Shākir al-Sayyāb (Indiana University Bloomington)
- Sayyid Qutb
- Ahmad Shawqi
- Siniyyat
- Naguib Surur
- Fadwa Tuqan
- Mayy Ziyadah [May Zeyadeh]
- In memory of May Zeyadeh: A torch in the darkest of ages
- May Ziadeh Rediscovered
- Arabian Gulf's Poetry
- Khalid al-Faysal
- Saud al-Faysal
- Saqr al-Nisafi
- Arabian Gulf's Poetry - Old
- A poetess caught between modernity and tradition (Badia Kashghari, S. Arabia) [Arab News, January 3, 1997]
Fiction & other Lit. Genres
- Alaa Al Aswany
- Writing the revolution. Egypt’s leading novelist surveys the Arab uprising [PROFILE of Egyptian novelist Alaa Al Aswany] by Wendell Steavenson. The New Yorker. January 16, 2012
- Bint al-Shatt
- Haydar Haydar
- Taqrir Lajnat Fahs Riwayat "Walimah li-Ashab al-Bahr" (al-Hayat 5/11/2000) ARABIC--[PDF]
- Interview with Haydar Haydar (al-Hayat 5/11/2000) [PDF])
- Ajwa' tudhakkir bi-maqtal Fudah wa-muhawalat ightiyal Najib Mahfuz [Atmosphere Reminds of Fudah's Assassination and Attempt on Life of Najib Mahfuz] (al-Hayat 5/18/2000: p.5 [PDF])
- "Walimah li-Ashab al-Bahr" ... Ala wajh al-kitabah al-riwaiyah / Waddah Shararah
- Raja al-Naqqash Yafdah al-Alaqah Bayna "Dhakirat al-Jasad wa-al-"Walimah" [Ahlam Mustaghanimi 7& Haydar Haydar] (al-Hayat 3/4/2001: p. 16)
- Sonallah Ibrahim
- Suhayl Idris
- Dossier in al-Âdâb (2008)
- In Memoriam: Suheil Idriss (1925-2008) Founder of Al Adab ‘moved the waters’ of Arab Literature / By Mahmoud Saeed (This essay appears in Al Jadid, Vol. 15, no. 60 (2009))
- Banipal (UK) - Contributors - Suhail Idriss
- Abdo Khal ['Abduh Khāl]
- Saudi Arabian writer Abdo Khal wins International prize for Arabic fiction (Abdo Khal's satirical Saudi Arabian novel Spewing Sparks as Big as Castles wins $60,000 'Arabic Booker') / guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 3 March 2010.
- Who are the ‘Arabic Booker’ Nominees? Abdo Khal
- Is the Arab world ready for a reading revolution? (Abdo Khal's 'Arabic Booker'-winning novel is effectively banned in his native Saudi Arabia. But he says a new generation of readers is seeking out his work)
- Najib Mahfuz
- Naguib Mahfouz
- Naguib Mahfouz, a Bibliography: Arabic, English, French.
- A Brief Guide to Naguib Mahfouz and Modern Arabic Prose
- NOBEL LECTURE, December 8, 1988 by NAGUIB MAHFOUZ (Read at the Swedish Academy by Mr. Mohammed Salmawy (first in Arabic, then in English)
- Naguib Mahfouz - Bibliography (nobelprize.org)
- Egypt's Revolution Foreseen in Fiction : "BEFORE THE THRONE" BY NAGUIB MAHFOUZ / Raymond Stock (Foreign Policy Research Institute, May 10, 2011).
- Ninetieth birthday: Interviews, Essays, etc. ---------PT. 1 (al-Hayat 12/5/2001) ARABIC--[PDF]
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- Naguib Mahfouz / The AUC Library
- Cruelty of memory : To have taken history not only seriously but also literally is the central achievement of Mahfouz's work, argues Edward Said (Al-Ahram Weekly Online,13 - 19 December 2001, Issue No.564)
- A Cairo Storyteller With Time to Dream (The New York Times, September 16, 2002)
- Lexical Cohesion in the Translated Novels of Naguib Mahfouz: the Evidence from The Thief and the Dogs.
- Abd al-Rahman Munif
- Novelist Abd al-Rahman Munif dies / al Jazeera, 24 January 2004
- Abd al-Rahman Munif (misc. essays about him) / al-Hayat, Saturday, 25 January, 2004, p. 16 [PDF-ARABIC]
- Abd al-Rahman Munif fi al-Riwayah al-Arabiyah / Antwan Al-Maqdisi, al-Hayat, 26 January, 2004, p. 16 [PDF-ARABIC]
- Farewell to Munif A Patriarch of Arab Literature By TARIQ ALI (January 31 / February 1, 2004, CounterPunch)
- Ameen Fares Rihani [Amin al-Rayhani]
- The book of Khalid
- Project Khalid
- The Book of Khalid can be read online at Project Gutenberg & Here Gutenberg
- Arab-American literature/English and Arabic
- For Writer Ameen Rihani, A Postscript and An Introduction (Washington Post, Monday, April 22, 2002; Page C01)
- The book of Khalid
- الطيب صالحTayyib Salih*i*
- Ali Salim
- Muhammad Shukri
- AL-Hayat (London), Special on Muhammad Shukri, 2003/11/17. p. 18 [PDF-ARABIC]
- "Muhammad Shukri Yarhal 'An 64 Sanah" = Muhammad Shukri, 64, Passes Away / AL-Hayat (London), 2003/11/17
- "Muhammad Shukri Yarhal Tarikan Adab al-Fadihah Zahirah Faridah" = Muhammad Shukri Dead, Leaving Scandal Literature A Unique Phenomenon / AL-Hayat (London), 2003/11/17
- Ibrahim, Sun'allah
- Briefing for an Inquisition / By Robert Irwin [Review of THE COMMITTEE]
- Criticism/Interpretation
- Literary History and the Arabic Novel / by Roger Allen
- Contemporary Short Stories by Kuwaiti Women: A Study of Their Social Context and Characteristics
- Arabic Political Fiction in English Translation: A Bibliography
- The Arab Novel: Visions of Social Reality / By Andrea Shalal-Esa
- Arabic novels in English translation
- Arabic Literature (in English)
- Arabic into English (Banipal: Magazine of Arab Literature, Spring, Summer & Autumn/Winter 2002)
- Translating contemporary Iraq’s Arabic literature: ten years of Banipal’s record, 1998–2008 / Salih J. Altoma (International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies Volume 3 Number 3© 2009)
Other
- CHILDREN OF AL-MAHJAR: ARAB AMERICAN LITERATURE SPANS A CENTURY / By Elmaz
- AbinaderArab-American Literature-- Alphabetical List of Links by Subject & Selected List of Arab-American Authors
- Arab-American Writers, Uneasy in Two Worlds (February 19, 2003, The New York Times Company)
- Abu Firas al-Hamdani
- al-Âdâb - Thematical archive 1953 عام نشأت الآداب مجلة
- Arabic Language Resources
- Iraq Poetry: Iraq Story
- Hidden Lives of Oil [Abdelrahman Munif]
- Hakawati of Damascus Abu Shadi Recalls the Old Days (al-Hayat, 12 Dec., 2000, p. 21)
- Iraq Literary Review
- The Role of Women in Arabic Literature
- Littérature algérienne
- The evolution of Arabic-language Algerian novels since 1970 [Al Quds Al Arabi 29/08/05]
- Fultir, Rajul al-Hurriyah [Voltaire, A Man of Freedom] (an essay by Jamal Abd al Nasir, the late Egyptian President when he was a Student)
- Another Attack on academic freedom [Arabic-L listserv thread, 1999]
- Said 'Aql ... in the Knesset In: al-Hayat, 1 July 2001, p. 17. (Arabic-PDF)
- Muhammad Zafzaf. Interview in Al-Hayat, 7/17/2001: p. 16
- Muhammad Shukri. Interview in Al-Hayat, 10/5/2001: p. 16
- Sheikh Nefzaoui: The Perfumed Garden -- Translated by Sir Richard Burton
- The Popular Arabic Literature of the Jews
- Another side of Saddam - the shy romantic novelist ['Zabibah wal Malik'' (''Zabibah and the King'')] (Brian Whitaker, Saturday May 26, 2001 The Guardian)
- "Qal'ah al-Hasinah" ["The Fortified Citadel" / attributed to Saddam Husein In: al-Hayat, 16 Dec. 2001, p. 5. (Arabic-PDF)
- Literary Translation from Arabic into English in the United Kingdom and Ireland, 1990 – 2010"
- Arabic Arabic Poetry Encyclopedia
- Edited from the void The slew of cultural magazines crowding newsstands and bookstores offers a deceptive picture of Egypt's publishing scene. Rania Khallaf follows the plight of the Egyptian literary magazine (Al-Ahram Weekly Online, 2 - 8 August 2001, Issue No.545)
- Translation from Arabic into English in the United Kingdom and Ireland, 1990 – 2010
- Fondamentalisme et libertés littéraires dans le monde arabe
- Libya: Libyan Arts, Music and Literature
- Omar Abu al-qasim al-Kekkli [Selections-- Short stories]
- Echoes of Sin City The dreamscape that drew Paul Bowles to Tangier is still here (NYT, October 18, 1998)
- Calligraphy Qalam
- As the Arabs Say
- Arab World Books
- Lowell Thomas and Lawrence of Arabia: Making a Legend - Creating History
- A Digital Corpus for Graeco-Arabic Studies
- Robyn Creswell & Bernard Haykel “Battle Lines: Want to understand the jihadis? Read their poetry.