Issa J. Boullata
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Issa J. Boullata was a Palestinian scholar, writer, and translator of Arabic literature. Biography He was born in Jerusalem on February 25, 1929 during the British Mandate of Palestine. He obtained a First Class BA in Arabic and Islamic studies in 1964 followed by a PhD in Arabic literature in 1969, both from the University of London. He taught Arabic studies for seven years at Hartford Seminary, Connecticut, before moving to McGill University, Montreal, in 1975. He taught graduate courses in Arabic Literature, Modern Arab Thought, and Qur'anic Studies at McGill's Institute of Islamic Studies until his retirement in 2004, and the honorific title of Emeritus Professor was conferred upon him on September 1, 2009.
Issa J. Boullata's Published Works
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Published Works
- Anthology of Modern Palestinian Literature (1993) (61)
- Trends and Issues in Contemporary Arab Thought (1990) (59)
- Literary Structures of Religious Meaning in the Qu'ran (2000) (26)
- Living with the Tigress and the Muses: An Essay on Jabrā Ibrāhīm Jabrā (2001) (20)
- The Arab Writer in English: Arab Themes in a Metropolitan Language, 1908-1958 (1999) (16)
- Tradition, modernity, and postmodernity in Arabic literature : essays in honor of professor Issa J. Boullata (2000) (13)
- Major Transitions and Thematic Borders in Two Long Sūras: al-Baqara and al-Nisā' (2013) (13)
- Critical perspectives on modern Arabic literature (1980) (12)
- Naguib Mahfouz: From Regional Fame to Global Recognition (1993) (11)
- MODERN QUR'N EXEGESIS A STUDY OF BINT AL‐SHĀTI'S METHOD (1974) (10)
- The Arab Americans: a History: Gregory Orfalea (2007) (10)
- The Beleaguered Unicorn: a Study of Tawfīq Sayigh (1973) (10)
- All That's Left to You: a Novella and Short Stories; Ghassan Kanafani, translated by May Jayyusi and Jeremy Reed (2005) (8)
- The Muqaddimah: an Introduction to History; Ibn Khaldun; Translated by Franz Rosenthal; abridged and edited by N. J. Dawood (2005) (8)
- Remaking Muslim Politics: Pluralism, Contestation, Democratization; Robert W. Hefner, editor (2005) (7)
- Arabs at the Crossroads: Political Identity and Nationalism (2000) (6)
- Sayyid Qutb's Literary Appreciation of the Qur'an (2013) (6)
- Making Music in the Arab World: the Culture and Artistry of Tarab: A.J. Racy (2003) (6)
- On Entering the Sea: The Erotic and Other Poetry of Nizar Qabbani (1998) (5)
- The Case for Resistant Translation from Arabic to English (2003) (5)
- Tradition and Modernity in Arabic Literature (1997) (5)
- The Poetic Technique of Badr Shakir Al-Sayyab (1926-1964) (1971) (4)
- Salt Houses (review) (2022) (4)
- The Arabic Novel: An Historical and Critical Introduction (1983) (4)
- The Masks of 'Abd Al-Wahhāb Al-Bayātī (2001) (3)
- Contemporary Arab Writers and the Literary Heritage (1983) (3)
- Writer, Culture, Text: Studies in Modern Arabic Literature (1994) (3)
- Lina: A Portrait of a Damascene Girl (1994) (3)
- Badr Shâkir Al-Sayyâb and the Free Verse Movement (1970) (3)
- Bridget Connelly, Arab Folk Epic and Identity (1987) (3)
- Modern Arab poets, 1950-1975 (1977) (3)
- Iliya Abu Madi and the Riddle of Life in His Poetry (1986) (2)
- The Seven Days of Man (1997) (2)
- The Man of Wiles in Popular Arabic Literature: A Study of a Medieval Arab Hero (2014) (2)
- Fawātiḥ al-Suwar: The Mysterious Letters of the Qur'ān (2013) (2)
- The Palestine Nakba: Decolonizing History, Narrating the Subaltern, Reclaiming Memory (review) (2012) (2)
- The Poetry of Sa'di Yusuf Between Homeland and Exile: Yair Huri (2007) (1)
- THE EARLY SCHOOLING OF AMAD AM?N AND MĀRŪN 'ABBŪD (1975) (1)
- Sun on a Cloudy Day (1997) (1)
- An Introduction to Islam; David Waines (2005) (1)
- Critical Perspectives on Modern Arabic Literature 1945-1980 (1981) (1)
- Essays in Arabic Literary Biography, 925-1350 (2014) (1)
- Mikhail Naimy: Poet of Meditative Vision (1993) (1)
- Marginal Voices in Literature and Society: Individual and Society in the Mediterranean Muslim World , edited by Robin Ostle. 214 pages, endnotes, bibliographies. Strasbourg, France: European Science Foundation, 2000. 130 FF (Paper) ISBN 2-9512731-1-8 (2001) (1)
- Bedouin Bisha‘h Justice: Ordeal by Fireby Joseph Ginat (review) (2013) (1)
- Textual Intentions: A Reading Of Adonis' Poem “Unintended Workship Ritual” (1989) (1)
- Islamic Art and Literature: Oleg Grabar and Cynthia Robinson, editors (2002) (1)
- From the Orient and the Desert (1977) (1)
- Toward a Biography of Ibn Al-Fārid (576-632 a.H./1181-1235 a.D.) (1981) (1)
- Roger Allen, compiler and editor, Modern Arabic LiteratÜre (1988) (1)
- Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond: Tina Chang, Nathalie Handal, and Ravi Shankar, Eds (2008) (1)
- Arts and Letters: Beauty in Arabic Culture . Doris Behrens-Abouseif. ; Modern Palestinian Literature and Culture . Ami Elad-Bouskila. (2000) (1)
- The dynamics of Islamic civilization : satu dasawarsa program pembibitan (1988-1998) (1998) (1)
- Adonis: Towards a New Arab Culture (1988) (1)
- Youssef Idris, A Leader of Men (1989) (1)
- It's Easier to Reach Heaven than the End of the Street: A Jerusalem Memoir – By Emma Williams (2010) (1)
- 7. The Rhetorical Interpretation of the Qur'an: i'jaz and Related Topics (2013) (1)
- The Aesthetics of Transgression: Khalil Hawi's "the Sailor and the Dervish" and the European Grotesque (1997) (1)
- GEERT JAN VAN GELDER, Of Dishes and Discourse: Classical Arabic Literary Representations of Food, Curzon Studies in Arabic and Middle-Eastern Literatures (Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2000). Pp. 185. Price not available. (2001) (0)
- Tarif Khalidi, Arabic Historical Thought in the Classical Period, Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994). Pp. 263. (1997) (0)
- Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here (review) (2022) (0)
- If I Were Another by Mahmoud Darwish, Fady Joudah (review) (2022) (0)
- Rabî‘ Jâbir and His Novel, Yûsuf al‐Inglîzî’ (2004) (0)
- Charles J. Adams 1924–2011 (2011) (0)
- Man is a Cause: Political Consciousness and the Fiction of Ghassān Kanafānī , by Muhammad Siddiq. (Near Eastern Studies 2.) 108 pages, chronology, notes, bibliography. University of Washington Press, Seattle1984. $9.95 (paper). (1985) (0)
- Arabic Literature in the Post‐Classical Period: Roger Allen, and D.S. Richards, Eds (2007) (0)
- Ishaq Musa al-Husayni. Memoirs of a Hen: A Present-Day Palestinian Fable (2000) (0)
- The Donkey Lady and Other Tales from the Arabian Gulf (review) (2022) (0)
- The Qur'an: Formative Interpretation: Andrew Rippin, editor (2001) (0)
- World of Poetry and Prose (1993) (0)
- Salma Khadra Jayyusi, ed. Classical Arabic Stories: An Anthology. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. xii + 410 pages. Cloth US$60 ISBN 978-0-231-14922-8. (2011) (0)
- James E. Montgomery. Al-Jahiz: In Praise of Books . Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013. 586 pages, preface, postface, appendix, bibliography, endnotes. Cloth US$152.00 ISBN 978-0-7486-8332-1. (2014) (0)
- The Qur'an in Context: Historical and Literary Investigations into the Qur'anic Milieu (review) (2012) (0)
- Gabriel Said Reynolds, ed. The Qur’ān in Its Historical Context. London and New York: Routledge-Taylor & Francis Group, 2008. 294 pages, index. Hardback US$150.00 ISBN 0-415-42899-8 (2007) (0)
- Cyril Glassé. The New Encyclopedia of Islam. Third Edition. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2008. viii + 718 pages, color photos, maps, charts, genealogical tables, chronology, bibliography. Cloth US$99.95 ISBN 978-0-7425-6296-7. (2009) (0)
- Year of the Elephant: A Moroccan Woman's Journey Toward Independence, and Other Short Stories (Rev. ed.) – By Leila Abouzeid (2010) (0)
- The Lost Mill By Emily Nasrallah (1989) (0)
- Never Mind: Twenty Poems And A Story (2000) (0)
- Belonging: New Poetry by Iranians around the World by Niloufar Talebi (review) (2022) (0)
- Tarek El-Ariss. Trials of Arab Modernity: Literary Affects and the New Political. New York: Fordham University Press, 2013. xi + 233 pages, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. Paper US$20.00 ISBN 978-0-8232-5172-8. (2013) (0)
- Dahlīl al-Nāqid al-Adabī: Iḍā'ah li-Akthar Min Thalāthīn Muṣṭalaḥan wa Tayyāran Naqdiyyan Mu'āṣiran (1995) (0)
- The Traveler and the Innkeeper by Fadhil al-Azzawi (review) (2022) (0)
- Nothing More to Lose by Najwan Darwish (review) (2022) (0)
- Siraaj: an Arab Tale: Radwa Ashour Trans. Barbara Romaine (2008) (0)
- FRUITLESS ENDEAVOURS (2011) (0)
- The Square Moon: Supernatural Tales (1998) (0)
- Saad El-Gabalawy, trans. and intro., Three Pioneering Egyptian Novels (Fredericton, New Brunswick: York Press, 1986). Pp. 120. (1988) (0)
- In the Wake of the Poetic: Palestinian Artists after Darwish (review) (2022) (0)
- Cheryl A. Rubenberg, ed. Encyclopedia of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 2010. Three volumes, xii + 1837 pages, maps, tables. Glossary, chronology, contributors, index. Cloth US$395 ISBN 978-1-58826-686-6. (2011) (0)
- The Journals of Sarab Affan: a Novel: Jabra Ibrahim Jabra (2008) (0)
- Book reviews (2001) (0)
- Geert Jan Van Gelder, trans. Classical Arabic Literature: A Library of Arabic Literature Anthology. New York and London: New York University Press, 2013. xxviii + 468 pages, notes, chronology, glossary of names and terms, bibliography, appendices. Paper US$25.00 ISBN 978-0-8147-3826-9. (2014) (0)
- Contemporary Arab Thought: Cultural Critique in Comparative Perspective (review) (2010) (0)
- The Dark Side of Love: Rafik Schami; Anthea Bell, Trans (2009) (0)
- Political Islam: A Critical Reader (review) (2012) (0)
- Abdelfattah Kilito. Thou Shalt Not Speak My Language . Translated by Waïl S. Hassan. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2008. xxvi + 102 pages, bibliography. Cloth US$19.95 ISBN 978-0-8156-3191-0. (2009) (0)
- Petra: The Concealed Rose by Amjad Nasser (review) (2022) (0)
- Selected Poems by Adonis, Khaled Mattawa (review) (2022) (0)
- Muhammad Abdul-Hai, Tradition and English and American Influence in Arabic Romantic Poetry: A Study in Comparative Literature , published for The Middle East Centre, St. Antony's College, Oxford (London: Ithaca Press, 1982). Pp. 269. (1984) (0)
- Angelika Neuwirth, Andreas Pflitsch, and Barbara Winckler, eds. Arabic Literature: Postmodern Perspectives. London, UK: Saqi Books, 2010. 505 pages, index. Paper US$28.95 ISBN 978-0-86356-694-3. (2011) (0)
- This Side of Innocence (2001) (0)
- Monarch of the Square: An Anthology of Muhammad Zafzaf's Short Stories by Muhammad Zafzaf (review) (2022) (0)
- Blood Test by Abbas Beydoun, Max Weiss (review) (2022) (0)
- Self-Consciousness and Loss: Giving Voices to Stones: Place and Identity in Palestinian Literature. . Barbara McKean Parmenter. (1996) (0)
- Creative Constraints: Translation and Authorship by Rita Wilson & Leah Gerber, ed. (review) (2022) (0)
- The Epistle on Singing Girls of Jāḥiẓ@@@The Epistle on Singing Girls of Jahiz (1984) (0)
- In the Tavern of Life & Other Stories (1998) (0)
- Roger Allen, The Arabic Novel: An Historical and Critical Introduction , 2nd ed. (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1995). Pp. 326. $17.95 paper. (1998) (0)
- Constructing Lebanon: A Century of Literary Narratives: Elise Salem (2003) (0)
- The Literary Life of Cairo: One Hundred Years in the Heart of the City by Samia Mehrez (review) (2022) (0)
- Majd Yaser Al-Mallah. In the Shadows of the Master: Al-Mutanabbī’s Legacy and the Quest for the Center in Fāṭimid and Andalusian Poetry . Berkshire, UK: Berkshire Academic Press, 2012. x + 147 pages, bibliography, appendix, index. Cloth US$69.95 ISBN 978-0-907784-07-01. (2013) (0)
- Intersections: Gender, Nation, and Community in Arab Women's Novels: Lisa Suhair Majaj, Paula W. Sunderman, Therese Saliba, editors (2003) (0)
- Translation Changes Everything: Theory and Practice by Lawrence Venuti (review) (2022) (0)
- From the Land of Sheba: Yemeni Folk Tales: Retold by Carolyn Han, trans, by Kamal Ali al‐Hegri (2006) (0)
- Convention and Invention : Islamic Literature in Fourteen Centuries in The Literature of Islam. (1988) (0)
- The unique necklace = Al-ʿIqd al-farīd (2007) (0)
- Thieves in Retirement, a Novel: Hamdi Abu Golayyel, Trans. by Marilyn (2007) (0)
- New Scholarship on Sībawayhi’s al-Kitāb (2009) (0)
- Learning English: a Novel: Rachid al‐Daif., Trans. by Paula and Adnan Haydar (2008) (0)
- Fouzi El-Asmar. The Wind-Driven Reed and Other Poems. Washington, D.C.: Three Continents Press, 1979. Paperback, 81 pp. (1980) (0)
- Khaled Mattawa. Mahmoud Darwish: The Poet's Art and His Nation. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2014. xvii + 197 pages, acknowledgements, notes on translation and transliteration, references, index. Cloth US$24.95 ISBN 978-0-8156-3361-7. (2015) (0)
- A Muslim Suicide by Bensalem Himmich (review) (2022) (0)
- Return to Dar al‐Basha: a Novel: Hassan Nasr, Trans. by William Hutchins (2007) (0)
- The Cambridge Companion to the Qur'an: Ed. Jane Dammen McAuliffe (2007) (0)
- Nissim Rejwan, Arabs Face the Modern World: Religious, Cultural, and Political Responses to the West (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998). Pp. 260. $39.95 cloth. (1999) (0)
- Being Palestinian: Personal Reflections on Palestinian Identity in the Diaspora by Yasir Suleiman (review) (2022) (0)
- The Literature of al-Andalus: Maria Rosa Menocal, Raymond P. Scheindlin, and Michael Sells, eds. (2002) (0)
- The Secret of Rose-Anne Riley by Shaw J. Dallal (review) (2022) (0)
- Sasson Somekh, Genre and Language in Modern Arabic Literature, Studies in Arabic Language and Literature, Volume I. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1991. xii + 141 pp (1992) (0)
- Does the Land Remember Me? a Memoir of Palestine: Aziz Shihab (2007) (0)
- The End of Spring: Sahar Khalifeh. Trans. Paula Haydar (2008) (0)
- Ghost Songs: A Palestinian Love Story (2000) (0)
- The Calligrapher's Secret by Rafik Schami, Anthea Bell (review) (2022) (0)
- Ph.D. Dissertations (1968) (0)
- Roger Allen, ed. Essays in Arabic Literary Biography 1850–1950. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2010. 395 pages. Cloth US$68.00 ISBN 978–3-447–06141-4. (2011) (0)
- Inclined to Speak: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Poetry: Hayan Charara (2008) (0)
- Self-Consciousness and Loss (1996) (0)
- Modern Arabic Fiction: An Anthology: Salma Khadra Jayyusi, ed (2006) (0)
- Narrating Tragedy: The Lord. . Soraya Antonius. (1987) (0)
- The Loved Ones: Alia Mamdouh, Marilyn Booth (2009) (0)
- Here and There: A Selection (2005) (0)
- World of Poetry and Prose: Anthology of Modern Palestinian Literature. . Salma Khadra Jayyusi. (1993) (0)
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