Research Guides: Modern Arabic Literature: Fiction

Belles lettres and narrative prose

The Arabic Novel by Roger Allen
Call Number: PJ7577 .A4 1995
ISBN: 081562641X
Classical Arabic Biography by Michael Cooperson; David Morgan (Contribution by)
Call Number: PJ7507 .C66 2000 + E-book
ISBN: 0521661994
Interpreting the Self by Dwight F. Reynolds (Editor)
ISBN: 0520220226
Publication Date: PJ7519.A9 I58 2001 + E-book
Arabian Nights: A companion by Robert Irwin
Call Number: PJ7737 .I78 2004
ISBN: 1860649831
The Experimental Arabic Novel by Stefan G. Meyer
Call Number: PJ7577 .M49 2001
ISBN: 0791447332
The art of Badīʻ az-Zamān al-Hamadhānī as picaresque narrative by James T. Monroe
Call Number: PJ7750.B3 M383 1983
The postcolonial Arabic novel debating ambivalence by Muḥsin Jāsim Mūsawī
Call Number: E-book
Writing and Representation in Medieval Islam by Julia Bray (Editor)
Call Number: PJ7535 .W75 2006 + E-book
ISBN: 0415385687
The life and works of Jāḥiẓ : translations of selected texts by Jāḥiẓ
Call Number: PJ7745.J3 A26
Maqama: A history of a genre by Jaakko Hameen-Anttila
Call Number: PJ7572.M3 H36 2002
ISBN: 3447045914
Story-Telling Techniques in the Arabian Nights by David Pinault
Call Number: PJ7737 .P56 1992
ISBN: 9004095306
Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur and Arabic Writerly Culture by Shawkat M. Toorawa
Call Number: PJ7532 .T66 2005 + E-book
ISBN: 0415297621
Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes by Dwight F. Reynolds
Call Number: GN648 .R49 1995
ISBN: 0801431743
Story-telling in the framework of non-fictional Arabic literature by Book Story-telling in the framework of non-fictional Arabic literature Stefan Leder
Call Number: PJ7503 .S76 1998
ISBN: 3447040343

Famous Arab writers

Top 50 Arab authors (Source: Arab Writers Union)

Naguib Mahfouz
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
Sonallah Ibrahim
Yousef Al-Qaeed
Ghassan Kanafani
Emile Habibi
Haidar Haidar
Edward al-Kharrat
Mahmoud Messadi
Ghada Samman
Ibrahim al-Koni
Abdul Rahman Majeed al-Rubaie
Shakir Mustafa
Fouad Al-Takarli
Hanna Mina
Gamal al-Ghitani
Ahmad Ibrahim al-Faqih
Leila Baalbaki
Ibrahim Abdel Meguid
Bahaa Taher
Nabil Suleiman
Hani al-Raheb
Yusuf Idris
Muhammad Salih al-Jabri
Tayeb Salih
Ahlam Mosteghanemi
Mohamed Choukri
Abdul-Karim Nassif
Walid Ikhlassi
Tawfiq Yousef Awad
Fathi Ghanem
Yaha Yakhlaf
Rashad Abu Shawar
Ali Abu Al-Rish
Gha’ib Ti’ma Firman
Munther al-Qabbani
Yahya Hakki
Abu El Maati Abu El Naga
Khairy Shalaby
Aroussia Naluti
Ghalib Halasa
Ibrahim Aslan
Elias Khoury
Suhail Idriss
Tawfiq al-Hakim
Zayd Mutee Dammaj
Mohammed Berrada
Mubarak Al-Rabih
Hassan Nasrallah
Moussa Ould Ebnou
Abdel-Hakim Qasim

Drama

Early Arabic Drama by M. M. Badawi
Call Number: PJ8211 .B3 1988
ISBN: 0521344271
Modern Arabic Drama in Egypt by M. M. Badawi
Call Number: PJ8211 .B33 1987 + E-book
ISBN: 0521242223
Live Theatre and Dramatic Literature in the Medieval Arabic World by Shmuel Moreh
Call Number: PN2960.A67 M67 1992
ISBN: 0814754813
The Egyptian Theatre in the Nineteenth Century by P. C. Sadgrove
Call Number: PN2973 .S34 2007
ISBN: 9780863723223