Tablet & Pen

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Reza Aslan (persisch: رضا اصلان, geboren am 3. Mai 1972) ist ein iranisch-amerikanischer Religionssoziologe, Schriftsteller und Fernsehmoderator. Als Jugendlicher vom schiitischen Islam zum evangelischen Christentum konvertiert, kehrte Aslan schließlich zum Islam zurück, schrieb aber weiterhin über das Christentum. Er hat vier Bücher über Religion geschrieben: No God but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam, Beyond Fundamentalism: Confronting Religious Extremism in the Age of Globalization, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth und God: A Geschichte der Menschheit.
Aslan hat für das Fernsehen gearbeitet, unter anderem an einer Dokumentarserie namens Believer, die sich mit Weltreligionen befasst, auf CNN, und als ausführender Produzent der HBO-Dramaserie The Leftovers. Aslan ist Mitglied der American Academy of Religion und der International Qur'anic Studies Association. Er ist Professor für kreatives Schreiben an der University of California, Riverside, und Vorstandsmitglied des National Iranian American Council (NIAC).

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Tablet & Pen pdf von Reza Aslan

Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East

The countries that stretch along the broad horizons of the Middle East from Morocco to Iran, from Turkey to Pakistan boast different cultures, different languages, and different religions. Yet the literary landscape of this dynamic part of the world has been bound together not by borders and nationalities, but by a common experience of Western imperialism. Keenly aware of the collected scars left by a legacy of colonial rule, the acclaimed writer Reza Aslan, with a team of four regional editors and seventy-seven translators, cogently demonstrates with Tablet and Pen how literature can, in fact, be used to form identity and serve as an extraordinary chronicle of the disrupted histories of the region.
Acting with Words Without Borders, which fosters international exchange through translation and publication of the world’s finest literature, Aslan has purposefully situated this volume in the twentieth century, beyond the familiar confines of the Ottoman past, believing that the writers who have emerged in the last hundred years have not received their full due. This monumental collection, therefore, of nearly two hundred pieces, including short stories, novels, memoirs, essays and works of drama many of them presented in English for the first time features translated works from Arabic, Persian, Urdu, and Turkish. Organized chronologically, the volume spans a century of literature from the famed Arab poet Khalil Gibran to the Nobel laureates Naguib Mahfouz and Orhan Pamuk, from the great Syrian-Lebanese poet Adonis to the grand dame of Urdu fiction, Ismat Chughtai connected by the extraordinarily rich tradition of resplendent cultures that have been all too often ignored by the Western canon.
By shifting America’s perception of the Middle Eastern world away from religion and politics, Tablet and Pen evokes the splendors of a region through the voices of its writers and poets, whose literature tells an urgent and liberating story. With a wealth of contextual information that places the writing within the historical, political, and cultural breadth of the region, Tablet Pen is transcendent, a book to be devoured as a single sustained narrative, from the first page to the last. Creating a vital bridge between two estranged cultures, "this is that rare anthology: cohesive, affecting, and informing" (Publishers Weekly).
"IN MY HIGH SCHOOL’S world-history book, which opened with Ancient Greece and the founding of “Western Civilization” and closed with Ronald Reagan’s “Morning in America,” there was a picture I will never forget: Napoleon Bonaparte astride a black horse at the edge of the Giza Plateau hands on his reins, epaulets fluttering in the desert wind staring at the cracked and crumbling façade of the Sphinx. The Egyptian colossus is shrouded in centuries of sand, so that only its head is visible; the angle of the portrait is such that the newly minted Master of Egypt is eye to eye with the Sphinx. In fact, the mounted Napoleon, whose army had vanquished the Egyptian forces loyal to the Ottoman sultan a few days earlier, is presented as a kind of Sphinxian figure himself august, inscrutable, constant as the boundless desert that surrounds him."

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