Arts Publications
- Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics
- Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics is a publication of the Department of English & Comparative Literature at the American University in Cairo.
Most Recent Articles from Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics 
Pilgrim clouds: the polymorphous sacred in Indo-Muslim imagination.
This article explores one Urdu poem of the early twentieth century, by the Indian poet Sayyid Muhammad "Muhsin" Kakorvi. "In Praise of the Best of...
1/1/03 by Scott Kugle · More from publicationAuthorship in Sufi poetry
This article explores authorship in the Sufi poetry of Egypt. How do we explain apparent paradoxes: attribution of new poetry to an old saint, to...
1/1/03 by Michael Frishkopf · More from publicationTurkish Alevi poetry in the twentieth century: the fusion of political and religious identities
This article examines Turkish Alevi poetry in the twentieth century focusing on how the Alevi community integrates political issues within a...
1/1/03 by Markus Dressler · More from publicationMoi aussi, je suis musulman: Rai, Islam, and masculinity in Maghrebi transnational identity.
This article focuses on North African Rai music as a fertile and explosive site of gendered and transnational Maghrebi identity, exploring two...
1/1/03 by Angelica Maria DeAngelis · More from publicationLa poesie impie ou le sacre du poete: sur quelques modernes
In France, the "modern" generation of poets--like Baudelaire, Mallarme and Rimbaud--had the ambition to give birth to a new conception of the sacred....
1/1/03 by Olivier Secardin · More from publicationLire dans le parcours d'une creation (a partir de la surate XCVI du Coran) *
The article offers a new reading of the Qur'an by examining the linguistic structure of the sacred text, starting with the multiple and varied...
1/1/03 by Heba Machhour · More from publication
