Remke Kruk
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 605975 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Remke Kruk |
| PRENOMES | Remke |
| SOBRENOME | Kruk |
| ASSINATURA | KRUK R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Leiden University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1390-8718 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1976 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
The Warrior Women of Islam
Colloquial Arabic storytelling is most commonly associated with The Thousand and One Nights. But few people are aware of a much larger corpus of narrative texts known as popular epic. These heroic romantic tales, originating in the Middle Ages, form vast cycles of adventure stories whose most remarkable feature is their portrayal of powerful and memorable women. Wildly appreciated by medieval audiences, and spread by professional storytellers thr…
The Man of Wiles in Popular Arabic Literature
One of the most fascinating aspects of Arabic popular epic is the ʿayyār, the trickster character who plays such an important role in most epics. In the introductory volume of his The Arabian Epic (1995), the book that did so much to make the genre of popular epic accessible to scholars, Malcolm Lyons called him the ‘man of wiles’, the equivalent of the metis Odysseus of Homer. Pages 118–27 of The Arabian Epic, Vol. I, is devoted to this type of …
A Barmecide Feast
The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature
"The final volume of The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature explores the Arabic literary heritage of the little-known period from the twelfth to the beginning of the nineteenth century. Even though it was during this time that the famous Thousand and One Nights was composed, very little has been written on the literature of the period generally. In this volume Roger Allen and Donald Richards bring together some of the most distinguished schol…
Harry Potter in the Gulf
A short item in the New York Times of February 13, 2002, contained the following news item: United Arab Emirates: ‘Potter’ magic denied. ‘Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone’1 has been banned fro
The Princess Maymūnah
Of Rukhs and Rooks, Camels and Castles
Of Rukhs and Rooks, Camels and Castles
rukh. They say that this is an animal that looks like a camel (ba'lr). He has two humps, and tusks. One has to be wary of all the parts of his body: his flesh, his blood, his spittle and his dung. No animal can pass him when he has sighted it, for he can run faster than the wind and overtakes all other animals. If an animal fleeing from him gets high up in a tree or on another high place where he cannot reach it, he stops in front of it and sprea…
The Thirsty Sword
The Introduction of Arabic Philosophy into Europe
Warrior Women in Arabic Popular Romance
A Greek and Arabic Lexicon
Warrior Women in Arabic Popular Romance
A Frothy Bubble
A FROTHY BUBBLE: SPONTANEOUS GENERATION IN THE MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC TRADITION Get access REMKE KRUK REMKE KRUK UNIVERSITY OF LEIDENTHE NETHERLANDS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Semitic Studies, Volume XXXV, Issue 2, Autumn 1990, Pages 265–282, https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/XXXV.2.265 Published: 01 October 1990
The Tropical Rain Forest
An 18Th-Century Descendant of Hayy Ibn Yaqzān and Robinson Crusoe
Pseudo-Aristotle
Harry Potter in the Gulf
A short item in the New York Times of February 13, 2002, contained the following news item: United Arab Emirates: ‘Potter’ magic denied. ‘Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone’1 has been banned fro
The Tropical Rain Forest
Pseudo-Aristotle
An 18Th-Century Descendant of Hayy Ibn Yaqzān and Robinson Crusoe
The Tropical Rain Forest
A Frothy Bubble
A FROTHY BUBBLE: SPONTANEOUS GENERATION IN THE MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC TRADITION Get access REMKE KRUK REMKE KRUK UNIVERSITY OF LEIDENTHE NETHERLANDS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Semitic Studies, Volume XXXV, Issue 2, Autumn 1990, Pages 265–282, https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/XXXV.2.265 Published: 01 October 1990
Warrior Women in Arabic Popular Romance
Warrior Women in Arabic Popular Romance
A Greek and Arabic Lexicon
The Introduction of Arabic Philosophy into Europe
The Thirsty Sword
Of Rukhs and Rooks, Camels and Castles
Of Rukhs and Rooks, Camels and Castles
rukh. They say that this is an animal that looks like a camel (ba'lr). He has two humps, and tusks. One has to be wary of all the parts of his body: his flesh, his blood, his spittle and his dung. No animal can pass him when he has sighted it, for he can run faster than the wind and overtakes all other animals. If an animal fleeing from him gets high up in a tree or on another high place where he cannot reach it, he stops in front of it and sprea…
The Princess Maymūnah
Harry Potter in the Gulf
A short item in the New York Times of February 13, 2002, contained the following news item: United Arab Emirates: ‘Potter’ magic denied. ‘Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone’1 has been banned fro
The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature
"The final volume of The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature explores the Arabic literary heritage of the little-known period from the twelfth to the beginning of the nineteenth century. Even though it was during this time that the famous Thousand and One Nights was composed, very little has been written on the literature of the period generally. In this volume Roger Allen and Donald Richards bring together some of the most distinguished schol…
A Barmecide Feast
The Man of Wiles in Popular Arabic Literature
One of the most fascinating aspects of Arabic popular epic is the ʿayyār, the trickster character who plays such an important role in most epics. In the introductory volume of his The Arabian Epic (1995), the book that did so much to make the genre of popular epic accessible to scholars, Malcolm Lyons called him the ‘man of wiles’, the equivalent of the metis Odysseus of Homer. Pages 118–27 of The Arabian Epic, Vol. I, is devoted to this type of …
The Warrior Women of Islam
Colloquial Arabic storytelling is most commonly associated with The Thousand and One Nights. But few people are aware of a much larger corpus of narrative texts known as popular epic. These heroic romantic tales, originating in the Middle Ages, form vast cycles of adventure stories whose most remarkable feature is their portrayal of powerful and memorable women. Wildly appreciated by medieval audiences, and spread by professional storytellers thr…
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