West-East Divan

West-East DivanTranslations of Goethe's poems about Arabia and Persia and his essays on Islamic culture. In West East Divan (1819), Germany's greatest poet J. W. von Goethe offered a work of lasting appeal. Stimulated by the Divan ("Collection") by medieval pub poet Hafiz, Goethe blends his own identity with that of the Persian Sufi master who sang the delights of wine and tavern romance in a context of Qur'anic allusion. Martin Bidney accompanies his rendering with

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and Flaubert was thrust into immediate celebrity

Kuwait and the UAE

comprehensive study of Ottoman religious buildings still standing today

Despite the great interest in and the availability of enormous literature about education in Japan

An original reading of Nietzsche and Heidegger that paved the way for Vattimo's conception of weak thought

An accessible discussion of the thought of key figures of the Kyoto School of Japanese philosophy

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Over a nine-year period

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an unauthorized English-language edition was published in the United States in 1947

Red Sister: A Story of Three Days and Three Months provides a beautiful and descriptive portrayal of both the aristocratic and middle classes of the late 1800s