This book is suitable for courses in Middle Eastern Literature, Middle Eastern History, World Literature, and Non-Western Literature. This extraordinary anthology gathers together a broad selection of representative, authoritative writings-spanning antiquity to the present-from the non-Western civilizations of the Middle East. It combines extensive introductions, headnotes, and bibliographies with excellent literary translations of the best contemporary and classical writers. The selections reflect literary, religious, and philosophical traditions and reveal-despite cultural differences-the universality of life experiences.
- ISBN10 0130464376
- ISBN13 9780130464378
- Publish Date 3 February 2003
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 23 December 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Pearson
- Format Paperback
- Pages 512
- Language English