Arabic and Persian Research
Arabic has been taught in various forms at St Andrews for several centuries and the Department has an excellent record of academic scholarship in Islamic studies, Arab and wider Middle Eastern history and mediaeval and modern Arabic literatures.
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Recent Submissions
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Intellectuals as sacrificial heroes : a comparative study of Bahram Beyzaie and Wole Soyinka
(2015-07-25) - Journal articleA study of Bahram Beyzaie and Wole Soyinka’s works reveals how in two disparate cultural settings, traditional structures and themes appear in modern forms to renegotiate people’s cultural identity. Both writers demythologize ... -
The relationship between Arabic Allāh and Syriac Allāhā
(2012-10) - Journal articleVarious etymologies have been proposed for Arabic allāh but also for Syriac allāhā. It has often been proposed that the Arabic word was borrowed from Syriac. This article takes a comprehensive look at the linguistic evidence ... -
Bread and cinema : Baghdad in al-Nakhla wa-'l-jiran by Gha'ib Tu'ma Farman
(2010) - Journal articleAl-Nakhla wa-'l-jīrān (‘The Palm Tree and the Neighbours', 1966) has been largely neglected outside the Arab world, despite being hailed as ‘the true beginning’ of the Iraqi novel. After an introduction to Farmān and the ...
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