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Kitāb̄ al-I`tibār̄ wa-a`qāb̄ al-surūr wa-al-aḥzān̄

Kitāb̄ al-I`tibār̄ wa-a`qāb̄ al-surūr wa-al-aḥzān̄ is a the arab world first published in 1993 by the contemporary author Àbd Allāh̄ ibn Muḥammad Ibn Abĭ ̄al-Dunyā. Indexed in KitabiHub under The Arab World, Modern Arabic Fiction, it sits alongside other the arab world on the same shelf.

Like much of the Arabic literary tradition, Kitāb̄ al-I`tibār̄ wa-a`qāb̄ al-surūr wa-al-aḥzān̄ rewards close reading: its rhythms reach back to a thousand years of poetry and rhetoric, while its concerns — exile, memory, the city, the desert, the relationship between the writer and the political moment — speak directly to the present. Readers approaching the book without prior background will find the description above a useful entry point; those already familiar with Àbd Allāh̄ ibn Muḥammad Ibn Abĭ ̄al-Dunyā's work will recognise the recurring preoccupations.

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Original language
Arabic
Publication year
1993
Length
140 pages
Editions indexed
1
Format
Literary work

About the author

Àbd Allāh̄ ibn Muḥammad Ibn Abĭ ̄al-Dunyā is part of the long Arabic literary tradition catalogued on KitabiHub. Their work appears alongside the great voices of the Nahda renaissance, the Cairo realists of the mid-twentieth century, and the new generation of writers from across the Arab world.

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