V. 40-41, 2019-2020

English Section

In the realm of Queuetopia: how to give a physical shape to relations with power in AL-Tabur(s) by Yusuf Idris and Basma ʿAbd Al-ʿAziz / Ada Barbaro  5-31

Spatial and literary dimensions of coffeehouses: from European to Mahfuz’s coffeehouses / Isabella Camera D’afflitto 32-45

Being the son of a sword and a lance: humanizing weapons in 'Antara Ibn Shaddad's poetry / Xavier Luffin 46-62

Gothic poetics in Hassan Blasim's fiction / Ikram Masmoudi 63-92

Counting Shaykhs in Hadith collecctions / Professor Christopher Melchert  93-119

The virtue of Al-Saymari: an overview of Badi' Al-Zaman Al-Hamadhani's Al-Maqama Al-Saymariyya / Ailin Qian 120-132

"A handful of Lentils" - Maryam Al-Mulla as a Feminist Iraqi-Jewish activist / Reuven Snir 133-161

Reimagining the Sufi tradition in modern Arabic literature / Paul Starkey 162-180

Kufan and Basran Gramarians on case assigment ('Amal) / Kees Versteegh  181-202

Gioseppe Verdi and Aida in the Egyptian Press. An Article Published in 1913 / by Paola Viviani 203-224

Arabic Section

الثقافة الشعبية وتأثيرها على الشعر المتهتك في الكوفة أيام الأمويّين / بروفيسور ألبير أرازي. 9-39

التفسير الإسماعيليّ للخطيئة الأولى في كتاب (أساس التأويل) للقاضي النعمان / بروفيسور مئير م. بار اشر. 40-55

رسالتان في التصوف للمطوّعي / د. خالد محمّد عبده. 56-71