Best middle eastern literature books according to redditors
We found 58 Reddit comments discussing the best middle eastern literature books. We ranked the 13 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 58 Reddit comments discussing the best middle eastern literature books. We ranked the 13 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
Arabic Stories for Language Learners: Traditional Middle Eastern Tales In Arabic and English
There's a book with that sentiment lol. Fadl al kilab ala kathir min man labis al thiyab
https://www.amazon.com/Memed-My-Hawk-Yashar-Kemal/dp/159017139X
You should read The Blind Owl. It's a creepy, modernist Iranian novella about a man who goes crazy after he kills his wife. I feel like it would be right up your alley.
Never read it, but my mom thinks Omaret Jacobian is the best modern Egyptian novel.
Link: https://www.amazon.com/Yacoubian-Building-Alaa-Al-Aswany/dp/0060878134
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The Blind Owl is not a bad starting point. For a recent translation based on a more authoritative edition of the original Persian, see this. Another classic modern Iranian novel to check out would be Simin Daneshvar's Savushun, also available in a good new translation.
> And given the fact that you still haven’t mentioned the ways eastern philosophy has influenced western philosophy, I’m not sure what proof you would be thinking of that this would be the case.
Pyrrho, that founded Scepticism in the west, had studied with Buddhist thinkers. https://press.princeton.edu/titles/10500.html
And since a lot of Western philosophy has been about proving those darn sceptics wrong, we must say the East has had a big impact here :)
Leibniz was much interested in Chinese philosophy and China in general. (The French system of state exams is copied directly from China by the way.)
Schopenhauer was much into the Upanishads, Hegel also was into Indian philosophy. Example https://www.amazon.in/Hegels-India-Aakash-Singh-Rathore/dp/0199468273
And so on.
If you look for examples, there are many of East>West influence.
I don't think it makes sense to think about it as two sort of seperate idea incubators, sealed off so neither contaminates the other.
Of course ideas has flowed back and forth, every time in history there has been contact facilitating such interaction.
It's a cliche recommendation, but Infinite Jest is sort of an adaptation of The Brothers K. in many ways and well worth investing ~month to read.
Otherwise, Gate of the Sun by Elias Khoury is one of the best contemporary novels period and certainly the best Palestinian novel that deals with the Nakba.
Khoury's prose is stellar; the novel raises some important questions about historical memory and how we define ourselves as victims, and for the most part it avoids becoming reductively partisan. Highly recommended.
I hope someone will answer because I'd be interested too in being given some references.
In the meanwhile all I can do is to give some titles I intend to buy in the near future but these match my interest (folktales, oral literature, history) and they may not be your cup of tea:
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UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B06XTXKD3R
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Yeah im gonna start reading more.
Just got this
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00M6GC1M6/ref=oh_aui_d_asin_title_o01_?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Hopefully it will put me towards the right direction
just one of a nation of idiots!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/God-Dies-Nile-Nawal-Saadawi/dp/1842778773/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1348835506&sr=8-1
There is an ebook that can be borrowed from a library.
https://www.amazon.com/Arabic-Stories-Language-Learners-Middle-Eastern-ebook/dp/B00M6GC1M6
If you have a bit of cash, I recommend Sahl the Jew’s book below. Top tier actual astrology source.
The Introduction to the Science of the Judgment of the Stars https://www.amazon.com/dp/0866905812/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_j5TRBbA9G4HP1