Nizar F Hermes
Biographic Data
| ID | 2084833 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nizar F Hermes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nizar F |
| FAMILY NAME | Hermes |
| SIGNATURE | HERMES N F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5213-4244 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A North African Sheikh’s Ultimo Gusto
They Declared War on Fish!’ An Eighteenth-Century Algerian Folk Poem on the 1770 Danish-Norwegian Bombardment of Algiers
Iberian Moorings
A Tale of Two Sultans
In this article, we explore the Orientalized perception and racialized representation of the Afro-Arab sultan of Morocco MūlāyIsmā' īl(r. 1672 to 1727) as found in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French sources. We do so by chiefly revisiting the mock "fairy tale love story" of MūlāyIsmā' īl, including his alleged marriage proposal to Marie Anne de Bourbon, la Princesse de Conti, the eldest legitimized and favorite daughter of King Louis XIV …
The City in Arabic Literature
Addresses the literary representation and cultural interpretation of the city in Arabic literatureShows how the city has been explored in works of literature by classical and modern 'Arab' authors from different theosophical and ideological backgroundsViews the entirety of the tradition as an evolving continuum, making the collection relevant to scholars of both classical and modern Arabic literatureCovers the central literary genres from the cla…
The City in Arabic Literature
This edited volume addresses the ways in which the city has been explored in works of literature by classical and modern ‘Arab’ authors from different theosophical and ideological backgrounds. Crucial to its organizing theoretical paradigm is its rejection of the stark rupture that most often separates the pre-modern and modern Arabic literary traditions. Instead, we view the entirety of the tradition as an evolving continuum, making our collecti…
City in Arabic Literature
City in Arabic Literature
Revolutionary Cityscapes
This chapter looks back at the transformative moment of 1950s Egypt, examining the representation of Cairo in the work of Yūsuf Idrīs. At the center of this study is Idrīs’ first novel Qiṣṣat ḥubb (A Love Story, 1956). The analysis focuses upon the geographic and linguistic scapes of Cairo, exploring the intersection of the linguistic and the spatial in the conceptionalization of the Egyptian identity. The diverse spaces of the city, that bring t…
It Eclipsed Cairo and Outshone Baghdad!”
Ibn Rashīq’s popularity in the Arab world as one of the most distinguished classical Maghribi poets owes much to what is often called in Arabic school textbooks “Nūniyyat Ibn Rashīq fī rithāʾ al-Qayrawān,” or simply “Nūniyyat Ibn Rashīq.” Ibn Rashīq composed his city-elegy, the nūniyyah while living in exile to lament the destruction (kharāb) and desolation (khalā̄ʾ) of Qayrawan in the wake of the Hilālī sacking of the city in 1057 ce. A full Eng…
Nostalgia for al-Andalus in early modern MoroccanVoyages en Espagne
The present article proposes that we turn our attention to al-Ghassānī’s (d. 1707) Riḥlat al-wazīr fī iftikāki al-asīr (The Journey of the Minister to Ransom the Captive) to trace some of the most original and thought-provoking literary and cultural manifestations of nostalgic/elegiac depictions of al-Andalus in Arabic-Islamic writing in the post-Reconquista era. Riḥlat al-wazīr fī iftikāki al-asīr, the article argues, abounds with tropes and mot…
The [European] Other in Medieval Arabic Literature and Culture
Contrary to the monolithic impression left by postcolonial theories of Orientalism, the book makes the case that Orientals did not exist solely to be gazed at. Hermes shows that there was no shortage
It Eclipsed Cairo and Outshone Baghdad!”
Ibn Rashīq’s popularity in the Arab world as one of the most distinguished classical Maghribi poets owes much to what is often called in Arabic school textbooks “Nūniyyat Ibn Rashīq fī rithāʾ al-Qayrawān,” or simply “Nūniyyat Ibn Rashīq.” Ibn Rashīq composed his city-elegy, the nūniyyah while living in exile to lament the destruction (kharāb) and desolation (khalā̄ʾ) of Qayrawan in the wake of the Hilālī sacking of the city in 1057 ce. A full Eng…
The [European] Other in Medieval Arabic Literature and Culture
Contrary to the monolithic impression left by postcolonial theories of Orientalism, the book makes the case that Orientals did not exist solely to be gazed at. Hermes shows that there was no shortage
Nostalgia for al-Andalus in early modern MoroccanVoyages en Espagne
The present article proposes that we turn our attention to al-Ghassānī’s (d. 1707) Riḥlat al-wazīr fī iftikāki al-asīr (The Journey of the Minister to Ransom the Captive) to trace some of the most original and thought-provoking literary and cultural manifestations of nostalgic/elegiac depictions of al-Andalus in Arabic-Islamic writing in the post-Reconquista era. Riḥlat al-wazīr fī iftikāki al-asīr, the article argues, abounds with tropes and mot…
It Eclipsed Cairo and Outshone Baghdad!”
Ibn Rashīq’s popularity in the Arab world as one of the most distinguished classical Maghribi poets owes much to what is often called in Arabic school textbooks “Nūniyyat Ibn Rashīq fī rithāʾ al-Qayrawān,” or simply “Nūniyyat Ibn Rashīq.” Ibn Rashīq composed his city-elegy, the nūniyyah while living in exile to lament the destruction (kharāb) and desolation (khalā̄ʾ) of Qayrawan in the wake of the Hilālī sacking of the city in 1057 ce. A full Eng…
The City in Arabic Literature
Addresses the literary representation and cultural interpretation of the city in Arabic literatureShows how the city has been explored in works of literature by classical and modern 'Arab' authors from different theosophical and ideological backgroundsViews the entirety of the tradition as an evolving continuum, making the collection relevant to scholars of both classical and modern Arabic literatureCovers the central literary genres from the cla…
The City in Arabic Literature
This edited volume addresses the ways in which the city has been explored in works of literature by classical and modern ‘Arab’ authors from different theosophical and ideological backgrounds. Crucial to its organizing theoretical paradigm is its rejection of the stark rupture that most often separates the pre-modern and modern Arabic literary traditions. Instead, we view the entirety of the tradition as an evolving continuum, making our collecti…
City in Arabic Literature
City in Arabic Literature
Revolutionary Cityscapes
This chapter looks back at the transformative moment of 1950s Egypt, examining the representation of Cairo in the work of Yūsuf Idrīs. At the center of this study is Idrīs’ first novel Qiṣṣat ḥubb (A Love Story, 1956). The analysis focuses upon the geographic and linguistic scapes of Cairo, exploring the intersection of the linguistic and the spatial in the conceptionalization of the Egyptian identity. The diverse spaces of the city, that bring t…
A Tale of Two Sultans
In this article, we explore the Orientalized perception and racialized representation of the Afro-Arab sultan of Morocco MūlāyIsmā' īl(r. 1672 to 1727) as found in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French sources. We do so by chiefly revisiting the mock "fairy tale love story" of MūlāyIsmā' īl, including his alleged marriage proposal to Marie Anne de Bourbon, la Princesse de Conti, the eldest legitimized and favorite daughter of King Louis XIV …
A North African Sheikh’s Ultimo Gusto
They Declared War on Fish!’ An Eighteenth-Century Algerian Folk Poem on the 1770 Danish-Norwegian Bombardment of Algiers
Iberian Moorings
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