Translation and transformation in modern Arabic literature; the indigenous assertions of Muhammad 'Uthman Jalal.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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Translation and transformation in modern Arabic literature; the indigenous assertions of Muhammad 'Uthman Jalal.

Bardenstein, Carol.

Harrassowitz

2005

216 pages

$73.00

Paperback

Studies in Arabic language and literature; v.5

PQ143

Jalal began translating works of French literature into Arabic in Egypt in the middle 1800s, and Bardenstein reads these ...

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