Bücher der Reihe Studies in East Asian Literatures and Cultures

The book provides new findings regarding the social, economic, and political development of the entire Slavic world in the early middle ages based on a critical edition of Ibrahim ibn Ya'qub's account of his trip to Slavic countries as transmitted by Al-Bakri.

The contributions in this book address a vast variety of questions concerning the sources and mutual inspirations in Oriental and European literatures. The authors discuss selected texts from both historical and synchronic perspectives. They reveal and scrutinise the sedimented layers in their search for the original.

Published in the 1950s-60s, Sh'ir magazine led a change in the role and form of Arabic poetry, supporting modernization in Arab thinking and writing through its articles of literary criticism, translated and original Arabic poetry, all promoting a new kind of secular and personal poetics, including that of prose-poetry and vision and visual poems.