NMC103H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Ibn Arabi, Random House, Naguib Mahfouz
15 Dec 2015
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Geographical extent: 5 main historical regions: arabian peninsula, fertile crescent (near east, Mesopotamia), nile valley (egypt), maghrib (n. africa), andalus (iberian peninsula: modern countries and territories (by largest population): egypt, algeria, morocco, iraq, Sudan, saudi arabia, yemen, syria, tunisia, libya, jordan, kuwait, lebanon, oman, Palestianian authority, qatar, united arab emirates (uae), bahrain: total population ca. Prominent cultural figures: syrian poet al-mutanabbi (d. 965); scientist ibn al-haitham (d. 1039), engineer al-jazari (d. 1206); spanish mystical philosopher ibn arabi (d. 1240); n. african social historian. Ibn khaldun (d. 1406: egyptian author naguib mahfouz (d. 2006; nobel prize for literature); palestinian poet. Mahmoud darwish (d. 2008); egyptian singer umm kulthum (d. 1975) History: historical heartland arabian peninsula (today mainly saudi arabia, with muslim conquests gradual arabization of near east, north africa, creation of modern arab states result of: disintegration of ottoman empire; role of imperial powers (esp. ); republic: egypt, syria, iraq, etc. (not all democratic)
