Middle Eastern literature
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Broader term:Narrower terms:- Middle Eastern literature -- History and criticism
- Arabic literature
- Aramaic literature
- Iranian literature
- Syriac literature
- Middle East -- Literatures
- Near Eastern literature
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Interpreting the Self: Autobiography in the Arabic Literary Tradition (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001), ed. by Dwight Fletcher Reynolds (HTML at UC Press)
- The Oral Tradition of Classical Arabic Poetry: Its Character and Implications (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1978), by Michael Zwettler (PDF at Ohio State)
- The Merchant of Art: An Egyptian Hilali Oral Epic Poet in Performance (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c1987), by Susan Slyomovics (multiple formats at ACLS Humanities E-Book)
- Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes: The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1995), by Dwight Fletcher Reynolds (multiple formats with commentary at Cornell Open)
- The Oral Tradition of Classical Arabic Poetry: Its Character and Implications (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1978), by Michael Zwettler (PDF at Ohio State)
- Rhetorics of Belonging: Nation, Narration, and Israel/Palestine (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, c2013), by Anna Bernard
- The Merchant of Art: An Egyptian Hilali Oral Epic Poet in Performance (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c1987), by Susan Slyomovics (multiple formats at ACLS Humanities E-Book)
- Novel Palestine: Nation Through the Works of Ibrahim Nasrallah (Oakland: University of California Press, c2023), by Nora E. H. Parr (multiple formats with commentary at luminosoa.org)
- Discourses on Iranian Literature (Bombay: Parsi Pub. Co., 1909), by Dhanjishah Meherjibhai Madan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The K. R. Cama Memorial Volume: Essays on Iranian Subjects Written by Various Scholars in Honour of Mr. Kharshedji Rustamji Cama, on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday (in English and various Iranian languages; Mumbai: Fort Printing Press, 1900), ed. by Jivanji Jamshedji Modi
- The Literature of Arabia, With Critical and Biographical Sketches, ed. by Epiphanius Wilson (Gutenberg text)
- The Gateway to Modern Arabic Poetry (English language version, 2007), ed. by Abdul-Settar Al-Assady, trans. by Munir Mezyed (multiple formats at archive.org)
- On Literature and Philosophy (The Non-Fiction Writing of Naguib Mahfouz v1; London: Gingko Library, c2016), by Najīb Maḥfūẓ, trans. by Aran Byrne, contrib. by Rasheed El-Enany (page images at JSTOR)
- The Gateway to Modern Arabic Poetry (English language version, 2007), ed. by Abdul-Settar Al-Assady, trans. by Munir Mezyed (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Arabic Astronomical and Astrological Sciences in Latin Translation: A Critical Bibliography (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1956), by Francis J. Carmody (page images at HathiTrust)
- La Décade Égyptienne (full serial archives)
- Apocrypha Arabica (Studia Sinaitica No. 8; London: C.J. Clay and Sons, 1901), ed. by Margaret Dunlop Gibson (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Shuwa Arabic Stories, With an Introduction and Vocabulary (Oxford: Printed at the University Press, 1921), by C. G. Howard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Speak, Bird, Speak Again: Palestinian Arab Folktales (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), ed. by Ibrahim Muhawi and Sharif Kanaana (HTML at UC Press)
- Moorish Literature, Comprising Romantic Ballads, Tales of the Berbers, Stories of the Kabyles, Folk-Lore, and National Traditions (1901), trans. by René Basset, Epiphanius Wilson, J. G. Lockhart, Chauncey C. Starkweather, Gustave Mercier, Jacques Rivière, and Constantine Louis Sonneck (Gutenberg text)
- Moorish Literature, Comprising Romantic Ballads, Tales of the Berbers, Stories of the Kabyles, Folk-Lore, and National Traditions (revised edition; New York: The Colonial Press, c1901), trans. by René Basset, Epiphanius Wilson, J. G. Lockhart, Chauncey C. Starkweather, Gustave Mercier, Jacques Rivière, and Constantine Louis Sonneck
- Oriental Tales (spine title of set of 15 volumes, each with its own title page; London: Athenaeum, 1884-1897), ed. by John Payne, contrib. by Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, Thomas-Simon Gueullette, and Leonard C. Smithers (page images at HathiTrust)
- Interpreting the Self: Autobiography in the Arabic Literary Tradition (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001), ed. by Dwight Fletcher Reynolds (HTML at UC Press)
- Arabian Poetry for English Readers (1881), ed. by W. A. Clouston (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- The Luzumiyat of Abu'l-Ala: Selected From His Luzum ma la Yalzam and Suct uz-Zand, and First Rendered Into English (second edition; New York: J. T. White and Co., 1920), by Abū al-ʻAlāʼ al-Maʻarrī, ed. by Ameen Fares Rihani (Gutenberg text)
- Specimens of Arabian Poetry, From the Earliest Time to the Extinction of the Khaliphat, with Some Account of the Authors (in Arabic, with English translations and notes; Cambridge, UK: Printed by J. Burges, 1796), ed. by Joseph Dacre Carlyle
- Specimens of Arabian Poetry, From the Earliest Time to the Extinction of the Khaliphat, with Some Account of the Authors (in Arabic, with English translations and notes; Cambridge, UK: Printed by J. Burges, 1796), ed. by Joseph Dacre Carlyle
- The Tarjumán Al-Ashwáq: A Collection of Mystical Odes (London: Royal Asiatic Society, 1911), by Ibn al-'Arabi, ed. by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Tarjumán Al-Ashwáq: A Collection of Mystical Odes (English portions only; c1911), by Ibn al-'Arabi, ed. by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- The First Book of the Hadiqatu' l-Haqiqat; or, The Enclosed Garden of the Truth, of the Hakim Abu' l-Majd Majdud Sana'i of Ghazna, by Abu al-Majd Majdud ibn Adam Sana'i al-Ghaznavi, trans. by John Stephenson (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- Sadi's Scroll of Wisdom (from the Wisdom of the East series; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., c1906), by Sa'di, contrib. by Arthur N. Wollaston (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- The Secret Rose Garden of Sa'd Ud Din Mahmud Shabistari: Rendered From the Persian With an Introduction, by Mahmud Shabistari, ed. by Florence Lederer (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- Studies in Islamic Mysticism (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1921), by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Bird Parliament, by Farid al-Din Attar, trans. by Edward FitzGerald (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- The Divan, Written in the Fourteenth Century (2 volumes; Kolkata: Government of India Printing Office, 1891), by Hafiz, ed. by H. Wilberforce Clarke
- The Mesnevi, and the Acts of the Adepts (1881 book of translated selections from these works), by Maulana Jalal al-Din Rumi and Shams al-Din Ahmad Aflaki, trans. by James W. Redhouse (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Poems from the Divan of Hafiz (London: Heinemann, 1897), by Hafiz, trans. by Gertrude Lowthian Bell (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- The Neo-Aramaic Oral Heritage of the Jews of Zakho (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2022), by Oz Aloni (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
- The Neo-Aramaic Oral Heritage of the Jews of Zakho (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2022), by Oz Aloni (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
- The Neo-Aramaic Oral Heritage of the Jews of Zakho (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2022), by Oz Aloni (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
- Nomocanon Gregorii Barhebraei (in Syriac, with some Latin and French editorial matter; Paris and Leipzig: O. Harrassowitz, 1898), by Bar Hebraeus, ed. by Paul Bedjan
- Spicilegium Syriacum: Containing Remains of Bardesn, Meliton, Abrose and Mara Bar Serapion (non-English portions omitted), ed. by William Cureton (HTML with commentary at tertullian.org)
- The Marvels Found in the Great Cities and in the Seas and on the Islands: A Representative of 'Aǧā'ib Literature in Syriac (with an English translation and commentary; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), ed. by Sergey Minov (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
- The Marvels Found in the Great Cities and in the Seas and on the Islands: A Representative of 'Aǧā'ib Literature in Syriac (with an English translation and commentary; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), ed. by Sergey Minov (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
- The Neo-Aramaic Oral Heritage of the Jews of Zakho (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2022), by Oz Aloni (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
- The Neo-Aramaic Oral Heritage of the Jews of Zakho (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2022), by Oz Aloni (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
- The Neo-Aramaic Oral Heritage of the Jews of Zakho (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2022), by Oz Aloni (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
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Filed under: Middle East- Whose Promised Lands? A Political Atlas of the Middle East and India (with "The New Era of Power Politics" by Halford Hoskins; Headline Series #57; New York: Foreign Policy Association, 1946), by Samuel Van Valkenburg, contrib. by Halford Lancaster Hoskins (multiple formats at archive.org)
- East and West of Suez: The Story of the Modern Near East (Headline Books #39; New York: Foreign Policy Association, c1943), by John S. Badeau, illust. by Graphic Associates (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Passion of Max von Oppenheim: Archaeology and Intrigue in the Middle East from Wilhelm II to Hitler (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, ca. 2013), by Lionel Gossman
- The Archaeology of Difference: Gender, Ethnicity, Class and the "Other" in Antiquity (published as v. 60/61 of Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research; c2007), ed. by Douglas R. Edwards and C. Thomas McCollough (page images at HathiTrust)
- Antiquities of the Orient Unveiled: Containing a Concise Description of the Ruins of King Solomon's Cities, Together With Those of Forty of the Most Ancient and Renowned Cities of the East, including Babylon, Nineveh, Damascus, and Shushan (New York: Redding and Co., 1873), by M. W. Redding
- Giving Goliath His Due: New Archaeological Light on the Philistines (c1992), by Neal Bierling (HTML at Wayback Machine)
- Egyptian Sepulchres and Syrian Shrines, Including a Visit to Palmyra (new edition; London: Macmillan and co., 1874), by Emily Anne Beaufort Smythe Strangford
- Egyptian Sepulchres and Syrian Shrines, Including Some Stay in the Lebanon, at Palmyra, and in Western Turkey (second edition, 2 volumes; London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862), by Emily Anne Beaufort Smythe Strangford
- Guide to the Collections: Ancient Near Eastern Art (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1966), by Vaughn Emerson Crawford, Prudence Oliver Harper, Oscar White Muscarella, and Beatrice Elizabeth Bodenstein (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
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