Index
Note: The definite article al- is not taken into consideration in the alphabetical order. It appears in this form throughout the entire book before solar and lunar letters. The following terms and their derivatives do not appear in the Index as independent terms or appear only partly: Arab, Arabic, Arabized, culture, Egypt, Iraq, Islam, Israel, Jew, Jewish, Muslim, short story, Zionist, Zionism.
‘Abbās II (Khedive)
22
‘Abbās Afandī quarter (in Baghdad)
41, 64
Abbāsid
3
‘Abbūd, Muḥammad
142n
‘Abd al-Nāṣir, Jamāl
118
‘Abd al-Ṣabūr, Ṣalāḥ
108
‘Abd al-Wahhāb, Muḥammad
139
al-Ablaq
VI
Abraham
20
Absurd, absurdity
106, 116–117, 171
Abū Jābir, Rīmā
148n
Abū Māḍī, Īliyā
40n
Abū Naḍḍara
(
see Ṣanū‘, Ya‘qūb
)
Abū Shādī, Aḥmad Zakī
40n
Abū Zayd al-Hilālī
37
Abū Zaydiyya
137n
Achebe, Chinua
201–202
adaptation
34, 112, 131, 146
‘Adas, Shafīq
73
Adīb al-Qāṣṣ
130, 317
Adūnīs (ʽAlī Aḥmad Saʽīd)
190
adynaton, adynata
113, 115, 116
Agamben, Giorgio
171–172, 184–186, 189
agency
11, 149, 180, 181, 182
Aghānī al-Ḥubb wa-l-Khulūd
46
Aghāsī (Aggasi), Iliyāhū (Eliyahu)
78n
Agnon, Shmuel Yosef
131
Ahava Bein ha-Dekalīm
125
Ahavat Sha’ūl
139, 140
Ahavat Tzion
24n
ahl al-dhimma
2
Aḥrār wa-‘Abīd
66, 68, 76
AIU
(
see Alliance Israélite Universelle
)
Akher
(
see Other; ben Avuya, Elisha
)
al-ʽAlam al-Isrā’īlī
31, 32
Aleppo
310
Alexandria
27
Alf Layla wa-Layla
12n, 36–37, 121–122, 133
(
One Thousand and One Nights
)
Algeria, Algerian
12n, 85n
Ali, Tariq
201
alienation
106–107, 111, 134, 145, 316
‘Alī al-Gharbī
63, 75
‘aliyya
141
‘Aliyyat ha-No‘ar
137
Alliance Israélite Universelle (AIU)
14, 15, 17, 41, 44, 55, 80, 130
Althusser, Louis Pierre
154–158, 162
Alwān min al-Shi‘r al-‘Arabī fī Isrā’īl
80n
Alwān min Shi‘r al-‘Arabiyya fī Isrā’īl
80
al-ʽAmāra
41
al-ʽAmārī, Murād ʽAbd Allāh
XII
American
100, 101, 109, 132, 146, 153n, 170, 171, 234, 235, 310, 313
Amīn, Aḥmad
34
Amīn, Qāsim
52, 53
‘Amīr, Elī
137–141
‘āmmiyya
36, 76
,
(
dialect, vernacular
)
Anā min al-Yahūd
142, 143, 144, 148, 168, 174, 178, 189, 197, 203, 309–316
anarchy, anarchist
112, 114, 118, 169
al-Anāshīd wa-l-Maḥfūẓāt al-Madrasiyya
83
al-Anbā’
106
Andalus, Andalusian
5n, 6–11, 13, 42, 64n, 83, 97–98, 149, 201
Andersen, Hans Christian
43–44
Anna Karenina
126
‘Antara ibn Shaddād
37
Anthills of the Savannah
201
Anthropomorphism
38
Antichrist
114, 119–120
anti-Jewish
20n, 132
anti-Semitism
77
anti-Zionism
77
Apollo
40n
apparatus
155, 156, 184
al-‘Aqqād, ‘Abbās Maḥmūd
26, 34, 40n
Arab Book Fund
78
Arabian Peninsula
1
Arabic literature
IX, X, XII, XIII, XV, 3, 7, 10, 11, 12n, 13, 19, 23, 25, 29, 30, 32, 35, 37, 39–40, 41, 52, 56, 58, 68n, 75, 77, 80, 84, 85, 96, 97, 99, 100, 106, 114, 115, 119, 123n, 124, 128, 130, 131, 134n, 142, 152, 153, 154, 191, 192, 193, 196, 200, 201, 314
‘Arabiyya (the ideal of)
8, 149
Arabization
3, 10, 11, 12n, 13, 128, 149
Arabness
X, XI, XIII, 160, 161
Arab Revolutionary Committee
18, 150
al-Aʽrajī, ʽAlā’ al-Dīn
58n
Aramaic
3, 12, 25 (neo-Aramaic) 12n
‘Arāyidī, Na‘īm
127
Archilochus
113
‘Arīḍa, Nasīb
40n
Aristotle
185
Arkhaṣ Layālī
157n
Armillus
119–120
art, artist, artistic
XIIn, XIII, XIV, 5, 8, 11, 30, 31, 41, 43, 44, 46, 48, 49, 50, 52n, 54, 55, 57, 63, 64, 66, 69, 73, 99, 100–102, 110, 141, 150, 173, 175–176, 178, 179, 186–188, 193, 232–237, 264, 265
Ash‘ab
134n
Ash‘ab mi-Baghdad
134
‘āshiq
37
ʽAshiqat al-Lalyl
47n
Ashrāṭ al-Sā‘a
114–115
Ashkenazi, Ashkenazim
X, 15, 78n, 80n, 100, 126, 129, 135, 137, 138, 140, 144, 154n, 158, 176, 310, 313
Asia, Asian
16, 169
al-‘Aṣr al-Dhahabī
83
assimilation
17
Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI)
175
Association of Arabic Language Poets
80, 81, 84
Assyrian
17
A Strangeness in My Mind
64n
atheist
172
attachment
11, 70, 72, 73, 123, 165, 216, 217, 289
indissoluble attachment
159, 160
a‘ṭū mā li-qayṣar li-qayṣar wa-mā li-llāhi li-llāhi
33
Austria, Austrian
15, 16, 106
author
XI, XIII, XIV, XV, 4, 8, 21, 26, 29, 30, 34, 35, 36, 41, 43, 50, 55, 56, 57, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 73, 76, 78, 83, 84, 85n, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 106, 110, 111, 112, 116, 118, 119, 120, 126, 132, 133, 137, 139, 141, 146, 150, 154–155, 157, 173, 177, 178, 180, 181–182, 183, 184, 188, 193, 196–197, 201, 202, 317–318
death of the author
198–200
implied author
42, 60, 139, 140, 173, 174, 193–194, 195, 198
autobiography, autobiographical
18n, 45, 69, 70, 75, 85n, 108, 133, 138, 139, 140, 143, 317n
al-Ayyām
70
Ayyūb, Mursī
(
see Shammās, Maurice
)
Ayyūb, Rashīd
40n
Azbakiya
22
‘Azza Ḥafīdat Nafratītī
108
Babel, Babylon, Babylonian
4, 12, 45, 298n
Babylonian Academy at Sūra
4
Babylonian Exile
3, 13
Tower of Babel
296
Bāb al-Shaykh quarter (in Baghdad)
262, 290
ba‘da kharāb al-Baṣra
65
Ba‘da Mawt Akhīhi
66
Ba‘ḍ al-Nās
69, 76
Baghdad
III, VII, X, XII, 3, 5, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 30, 34n, 41, 42n, 44, 45, 50n, 55, 57, 63, 64, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 77, 80, 100, 106, 130, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 168, 176, 181, 182, 183, 195, 203, 210, 213, 216, 218, 219, 222, 243, 261–265, 268, 270, 277, 280, 282, 285, 286, 317, 318
As a “Jewish” city
20
Ash‘ab mi-Baghdad
134
Baghdad Chamber of Commerce
19–20, 44
Baghdad Law College
41, 64, 80, 106
Baghdad vilayet
19
Forget Baghdad
99n, 122n, 123n
Frankenstein fī Baghdād
153
Bahais
101
Bakhtin, Mikhail
198
Balbūl, Ya‘qūb
XII, 20, 34n, 55–63, 70, 180, 182–183, 212–215, 317
“True Copy” VII, 20n, 34n, 57–62, 70, 180, 181, 182–183, 203; (translation)
212–215
Balfour, Arthur James
20n
Balfour Declaration
20, 158, 159
Ballas, Shimon
XIV, 100n, 123, 130–137, 174–175, 188–189, 196, 266–293, 317
“Iyya” VIII, 133, 135–137, 174–175, 188–189, 203; (translation)
266–294
Banū Isrā’īl
25
Bāqat Alḥān
83
Baraitser, Lisa
163
barbarism, barbarity, barbaric
XI, 16, 59, 128
Bār-Moshe, Isḥāq (Isaac)
XII, 19, 99, 103–107, 179, 181, 194–195, 251–257, 317
“The Cellar” VII, 99, 103–107, 179, 181, 194–195, 203; (translation)
251–257
Barthes, Roland
198–201
Bashīr, al-Tījānī Yūsuf
40n
Basra
3, 11, 15, 65, 73
Baṣrī, Mīr
XII, 30, 44–48, 180, 194, 230–231, 317
“The Schoolteacher” VII, 47–48, 180, 181, 194, 203; (translation)
230–231
al-Baṣṣūn, Salīm
XII
Baṭṭāṭ, Reuben (Rūbīn)
74
Bauman, Zygmunt
163, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 190
Bayḍat al-Dīk
75
Bayna al-Nahrayn
30
al-Bayyātī, ‘Abd al-Wahhāb
XI, 97, 119
Beardsley, Monroe
198
Bedouin
1, 58, 103, 117, 119, 181, 240, 241
Begin, Menahem
107
Be-Gūf Rishon
134
Behar, Almog
XIV, 142–148, 168–169, 174, 177, 178, 189–190, 196–202, 309–316, 317
“Anā min al-Yahūd” VIII, 142–148, 168–169, 174, 178, 189–190, 197–202, 203; (translation)
309–316
Beirut
XI, 29n, 32, 33, 53
belles lettres
2n, 5, 9, 29, 30
(
novel; novella; short story; poetry
)
belonging, belongingness
32, 116, 129, 154, 156, 157, 161, 165, 171, 172, 173–178, 180, 182, 191, 193
ben Avuya, Elisha
133
Ben Hanania, Yehoshua
(
see Yehoshua, Ya’acob
)
Benjamin, Walter
XI
Benjamin II, Rabbi Israel-Joseph
13–14
ben Maymon, Moshe
(
see Maimonides
)
Bennett, Andrew
191, 200
ben Shemuel Ha-Levi, Yehuda
7
Ben-Zvi, Yitzḥak
81
Bergson, Henri L.
55
Berlin
169
Bialik, Haim Nachman
196
Bible
4, 11, 44, 111, 112, 120, 131
(
Torah
)
al-Bilād
64
Bildungsroman
139
bilingual, bilingualism
10n, 12
binary
160
biography, biographical
IX, 23, 45, 74, 193, 194, 197, 317
(
autobiography
)
black
65, 70, 95, 156, 160, 169, 216
(
white
)
Blau, Joshua
8, 149
Blindness
145–146
Boianjiu, Shani
XV
Bombay
15
bombs (against Jewish gatherings in Baghdad)
277, 284
Book of Psalms
54
Bosnia
169
bourgeois, bourgeoisie
171
bourgeois ideology
155
classlessness of the bourgeoisie
171
petty bourgeoisie
171
Brazilian
169
Bread Givers
146
Britain, British
19, 20, 58, 65, 73, 103, 201n, 280
British High Commissioner
18
British mandate
28, 312n
Brontë, Anne
105, 179
Brontë, Charlotte
105, 179
brotherhood
90, 94, 96, 97
Arab-Jewish brotherhood
78, 80, 82, 83
Buddhists
172
Būluṣ, Sarkūn
202
Burg, Avraham
140n
al-Bustānī, Buṭrus
33, 53, 55
al-Bustānī, Salīm
33
al-Bustānī, Sulaymān
46
Butt, Aviva
XV
Byzantine
109
Caesar
33
Cairo
18, 22, 23, 24, 25, 28, 52n, 106, 107, 108, 110, 117, 140, 150, 318
Cairene Trilogy
126
Cairo Geniza
143
caliphate
3
Camus, Albert
55
canon, canonical
XI, XII, 8, 11, 13, 21, 23, 25, 26, 28, 37, 40, 43, 79, 126–128, 135, 176, 201
captivity
20
Carmina Burana
113
carpe diem
113, 139
Cather, Willa
146
censorship
86, 97
Chamber of Commerce (Baghdad)
19–20, 44
character, characterization
XIV–XV, 38–39, 43, 47, 48, 49, 51, 57, 61, 66, 67, 72, 74, 81, 99n, 101, 103, 105, 109, 110, 111, 119, 120, 122, 132, 134, 135, 136, 137, 139, 141, 157, 158, 168, 169, 174, 175, 177, 179, 180, 181–183, 188, 193, 194, 209, 231, 241
Cheikho (Shaykhū), Louis
25, 29
Chebar River
298n
Chicano
169
Children of Israel
25, 138
Chinese
47
Christ
109, 120, 169
Christianity, Christian
XII, 2, 5, 11, 14, 17, 19, 20, 22, 23, 25, 28, 29–30, 33, 34, 39, 40, 46, 53, 55, 69, 77, 78n, 81, 83, 84, 85, 98, 101, 109, 115n, 120, 125, 127, 130, 135, 140, 158, 159, 172, 175, 279, 311n
Church
5, 109
cinema, films, movies
20n, 26–29, 52n, 55, 99n, 102, 117, 122n, 123n, 125, 130, 138, 142n, 157, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237, 255, 240, 257, 310, 317
classical
24, 34, 40, 47, 89, 118n, 134n
classical Arabic language
4n, 8, 29, 149
classical Arabic poetry
39, 55, 96
neoclassical poetics
39
clown
101, 102, 176, 236
coexistence
81, 83, 84, 96, 97, 98
cognitive dissonance
126–128, 130, 132, 143
Cohen, Stuart
129n
Cohen-Moreh, Esperance
XIII, 99, 102–102, 181, 202, 238–241, 317
“Chivalry” VII, 99, 102–103, 181, 203; (translation)
238–241
colonialist, colonialism
XI, 15, 20, 99n, 103, 135, 183
Communist, Communism
X, 33n, 77–78, 84–97, 100, 124, 125, 130, 134, 139, 175, 267, 271, 282–282
Communist Manifesto
88
Communist Party (Iraq)
84, 97n, 100, 130
Communist Party (Israel)
78, 84, 96n, 124, 125, 130, 134
concentration camps
233
conversion, convert, converted
6n, 7, 9, 22–23, 28, 36n, 120, 132
Copenhagen
142
Copt, Coptic
33
cosmopolitan, cosmopolitanism
130, 133, 135, 170, 196
cowboy
100, 101, 233, 234, 235, 236
Crime and Punishment
109, 154–155
Crusoe, Robinson
164, 187
Curiel, Henri
134
curriculum
14, 19, 63–64, 141
Curtius, Ernst Robert
112, 113
al-Dahana
130
Dā’irat Ma‘ārif al-Ḥubb
26
al-Dajjāl
119–120
Dalālat al-Ḥā’irīn
5
Dani, Amrita
XV
Dante
X
al-Darb
96n
Dār al-Idhāʽa al-Isrā’īliyya
80, 106, 107
(
Ṣawt Isrā’īl, Voice of Israel
)
Darwīsh, Maḥmud
89n, 157n
Darwīsh, Salmān Ya‘qūb
18–19, 63
Darwīsh, Shalom
XII, XIII–XIV, 18–19, 21, 34n, 63–76, 168, 176–177, 183, 186, 195–196, 216–227, 242–250, 318
“A Caravan from the Village” VII, 34n, 69–73, 168, 176–177, 183, 186, 195–196, 203; (translation)
216–227
“The Story of the Perforator” VII, 74–75, 195–196, 203; (translation)
242–250
Darwīsh, Yūsuf
33n
DDT spray
124–125
de Banville, Théodore
47
de Cervantes, Miguel
201
deconstruction
163
Deleuze, Gilles
134
democracy
18, 169
de Musset, Alfred
47
Derrida, Jacques
141, 184n, 201
Der Uhrmacher
15n
de Ṭarrāzī, Philip
23
deterritorialization, reterritorialization
135
de Vigny, Alfred
46
dialect
3, 12, 22, 182, 242, 246, 261, 282, 286
(
‘Āmmiyya; vernacular
)
diaspora
196
dichotomy, dichotomizing, dichotomous
42, 79n, 96, 97, 103
difference
172, 189
Dijla
45
(
Tigris
)
al-dīnu li-l-dayyāni
33n
al-dīnu li-llāhi wa-l-waṭan li-l-jamī‘
33, 149
discourse
4, 141, 150, 153–154, 163, 164, 165, 187, 191, 192, 199
discrimination
80n
Divine Comedy
X
dominance, predominance, dominant
X, 2, 4, 26, 29, 39, 49, 55, 78, 84, 98, 159, 198
Don Quixote
201
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
109, 154–155, 157–158
Dovrat Committee
79n
Drory, Rina
8
Drower, Ethel Stefana
20
Druze
101, 127
Dūs, Tawfīq
33
Dutch
126, 172
dwarf, dwarfing
119, 120, 121, 122, 139n, 295, 296, 299, 306
Dybbuk
144, 146, 313
Ecumenism
98
‘Edot Mizrāḥ
160
education
28, 48, 51, 52–53, 63, 65, 66n, 69, 71, 72, 156, 194, 230
(
AIU
)
in Iraq
3, 14, 15, 17–19, 30, 48
in Israel
X, XI, 79, 98, 127, 137, 138
musical education
83–84
Egyptian Law College
23
elegy
1, 33n, 47, 140n, 230
elite, elitist
43, 63, 78, 128, 312n
Arab-Jewish elite
7, 9
canonical elite
XII, 176
Iraqi-Jewish intellectual elite
13, 14, 20, 149, 158
elusive, elusiveness
166, 174, 200
emancipation
30
encyclopedist
55
Engels, Friedrich
88
English, Englishness, England
XIII, XV, 14, 15, 20n, 22, 34, 35, 40, 45, 46, 53, 58, 96n, 103, 109, 124, 126, 164, 183, 238, 239, 261, 262
enjambment
89, 91
Enlightenment
15, 16
(
Haskala; Nahḍa
)
epic poetry
45–46
escapism
57, 107
essential, essentialist
XIII, 161, 163, 166, 177
establishment (cultural, literary)
X, 46, 78, 81, 83, 96, 126–127, 132, 140, 153
estrangement
134, 144, 145
ethnic, ethnos, ethnicity, ethnography
3, 18, 30, 106, 124, 140n, 154n, 163, 172
ethnic cleansing
160
ethnic identity
164
Euphrates
37
Europe, European
XI, 3, 14–16, 22, 24n, 30n, 37, 63, 128, 134, 135, 158, 169, 228, 264, 270
exclusion, exclusionist, exclusionary
XI, XIII, 16, 158–169
Exile, exile
12, 27, 99n, 129, 134, 145, 151, 219, 261, 316
Babylonian Exile
3, 13, 111, 298n
existence, existential, existentialist
55, 75, 79, 80, 106–107, 139, 194, 207
Ezekiel
121, 289, 298n
Faisal, Feisal
(
see Fayṣal
)
Fanon, Frantz
10, 149
Faqir, Fadia
58, 60
Farā’id al-Gharb
26
Faraj, Murad (Morad Farag)
23–25
Farhūd
77
Fārūq, King
24, 29n
Fatā Isrā’īl (pseudonym)
36–40, 48, 181, 193, 203, 204–206
“Between the Fangs of the Sea” VII, 36–40, 181, 193, 203; (translation)
204–206
Fatimid
5
Faulkner, William
109
Fawzī, Ḥusayn
133
Fayṣal (King of Iraq)
17–18, 152
feminist, feminism
XIII, 28–29
fetishization
172
Fī ‘Ālam al-Nūr
81, 97
Fī ‘Ālam al-Salām
83
Fī Mawkib al-Ukhuwwa
83
fiction, fictional, fictionalized
26, 34, 35, 36n, 40–41, 42, 50n, 55, 58, 60, 70, 104, 107, 108, 116, 118, 131, 132, 134, 138, 140, 142, 143, 148n, 153, 157, 158, 163, 165, 179, 181, 182, 191–202
First World War
18, 20, 24, 30, 50, 150
Flaubert, Gustave
126
fluent, fluency
XII, 14, 19, 124
fluid, fluidity
103, 137, 162, 166, 168n, 175
folk, folktales
12, 36, 38, 157
Forget Baghdad
99n, 122n, 123n
Foucault, Michel
192, 198–200
fragmentation (of identity)
159, 161, 190
Frankenstein fī Baghdād
153
Frayn, Michael
164–165, 187
Freemason
106, 296
French
14, 15, 16, 18, 22, 23, 26, 31, 34, 35, 37, 41, 42, 45, 46, 50n, 55, 57n, 126, 128, 130, 131, 135, 149, 154, 198, 212n
Freud, Sigmund
16n
Frosh, Stephen
163
function, functional
8, 14, 40n, 70, 89, 91, 108, 110, 112, 155–156, 175, 182, 183, 186, 199
fuṣḥā
9, 13, 29–35, 36, 38, 182, 183, 196
(
standard literary Arabic
)
Galland, Antoine
37n
Gaonim
12
Garat, S.
15
gay
156, 169
Geary, Grattan
14, 15
Gelblum, Arye
160
gender
39, 263
Geniza
143
German, Germany
XIII, 15, 21, 30, 126, 158, 169, 313
German Jews
16
Ge’ūt ha-Naḥal
124n
al-Ghad
96n
Ghālī, Buṭrus
33n
al-Ghazālī, Naẓim
ghost, ghosts
101, 105, 107, 121, 179–180, 200
ghuluww
115
Ghunayma, Yūsuf Rizq Allāh
17, 18, 31
Gilboa, Amir
123
Ginosar, Yossi
129
global, globalization
154, 161, 166, 169, 170, 201n
global capitalism
172
global developments
161
global diaspora
196
nonuniversal global
196
Goitein, Shelomo Dov
143
golden age
83, 98n, 142, 152, 159
gothic
105, 109, 178, 179
Granada
7
Grand Rabbi
(
Chief Rabbi
)
Gray, Thomas
47, 230
Greek
2, 3, 4, 45–46, 113, 116, 126, 133, 162, 169
Greenblatt, Stephen
192–193
Guattari, Félix
134
gypsy
169, 279
Ḥabībī, Emīl
97
Ha-Cohen, Mordechai
14n
Ḥaddād, ‘Ezra
20, 41, 64, 159
Ḥaddād, Hārūn Zakī
26
Ḥaddād, Mīshīl
80
Haddad, Robert
2
Haifa
V, XII, 75, 100, 101, 106, 124, 125, 131, 318
Haifa Municipal Theater
125
hailing
155–159
(
interpellation
)
Ḥaim, Ḥacham Yosef
16
ḥakawātī
36, 138
al-Ḥakīm, Tawfīq
34
Ha-Kol mi-Ba‘ad la-‘Anaf
123
Hall, Stuart
162–163, 164, 172
Ha-Ma‘abara
123, 131–132
Ha-Maggid
14
Ha-Merkaz le-Shilūv Moreshet Yahadūt Sepharad ve-ha-Mizraḥ
127
Hamlet
XIV
Ha-‘Olam
15
Ḥaqīqat al-Amr
80
al-Ḥarāfīsh
116
Ha-Rambam
(
see Maimonides
)
Ḥārat al-Yahūd (the Jewish Quarter in Cairo)
107, 108, 110, 260
Hareven, Shulamith
128
al-Ḥarīm
22
al-Ḥarīrī, Abū Muḥammad al-Qāsim ibn ʿAlī
11
Hārūn, Zakkay Binyāmīn
83n, 123
al-Ḥaṣād al-Awwal
50, 55
al-Ḥāṣid
42, 49, 64, 66, 211
Haskala
14n, 15, 24n
(
Enlightenment; Nahḍa
)
Ḥasūt
125
Ḥatsotsra ba-Wadī
125
Ḥattā Yajī’ al-Rabī‘
86n, 97
Ḥawādith al-Zamān
30
al-Hāwiya
27
Haykal, Muḥammad Ḥussayn
34, 36n, 39, 52
Ha-Yoresh
134
Hebrew
IX, X, XIII, XIV, 3, 4, 5–16, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 44, 45, 75, 81, 82, 85, 99, 102, 108, 111, 123–148, 159, 160, 174, 175, 196, 197, 198, 282, 310, 311, 313, 314, 315
Hebrew-Arabic Literary Club
85
Hebrew culture
9, 10n, 99, 123n, 160
Hebrew literary establishment
153
Hebrew poetry, poetics
3, 4, 6–7, 64n
Hebrew script
3, 11, 30
Hebrew transliteration
XVIII
Hebrew University
138, 143
Ḥeder Na‘ūl
134
hegemony, hegemonic
39, 78n, 129, 153, 156
Helfield, Michael
XV
Hellenistic
2
Ḥerem
16
heresy, heretic
120, 133, 141, 299
hero, heroine, heroic, anti-hero
27, 28, 37, 38, 47, 48, 52, 62, 65, 66, 68, 69, 75, 94, 100, 101, 117, 126, 132, 133, 134, 140, 168, 170n, 182, 190, 201, 266n
(
protagonist
)
Herzl, Theodor
16
heteroglossia
198
High Commissioner for Iraq
18
al-Hilāl
34
al-Ḥilla
VI, 37, 132, 318
Ḥilmī, ‘Abbās (Khedive)
24
Hindus
172
Ḥisqīl (Yeḥeskel), Sāsūn (Sassoon) (Ezekiel Sasson)
15
Histadrut (General Federation of Labor)
78
historicization
165
Hitbaharūt
134
Hitler, Adolf
233
Hobsbawm, E. J.
138
Ḥofen shel ‘Arafel
125
Holocaust
X, 101, 102, 140, 179
holy, holiness
2, 8, 24, 108, 109, 289
holy fool
109
Homer, Homeric
46
honor killings
58–60
Ḥoref Aḥaron
134
Hosea
110–112, 120–121, 168, 178, 295n
ḥubb al-waṭan min al-īmān
33
Hugo, Victor
23, 42
Huis Clos
101
Ḥula Valley
139
Ḥūraysh (Ḥoresh), Yūsuf
15
Ḥūrī, Mūsā
100
Ḥusayn, Ṣaddām
132, 311
Ḥusayn, Ṭāhā
34, 70, 130
al-Ḥuṣrī, Sāṭi‘
17
Hussein, Taha
(
see Ḥusayn, Ṭāhā
)
hybrid, hybridic, hybridity
XI, 6, 79n, 105, 143, 144, 145
hymn, hymns
4, 81, 83, 84
hyperbole
39, 115–116
ibn ‘Ādiyā’, al-Samaw’al VI, 1–2, 25, 29n; (awfa min al-Samaw’al)
1
ibn al-‘Arabī, Muḥyī al-Dīn
98
Ibn al-Athīr
34
ibn al-balad
107
ibn ‘Ezra, Moshe
7, 8n
Ibn Gabirol
7
ibn Ḥārith, Bishr (al-Ḥāfī)
184, 185–186, 187
Ibn Kammūna al-Isrā’īlī
5–6
Ibn Khaldūn
34
ibn Killis, Ya‘qūb
5
ibn Mas‘ūda, Shālūm (Shalom) Dāwūd
26
ibn Maymūn, Mūsā
(
see Maimonides
)
ibn Naghrīla, Ismā‘īl
(
see Shmuel ha-Nagid
)
Ibn al-Rūmī
34
ibn Sahl al-Ishbīlī al-Isrā’īlī, Ibrāhīm
9
ibn Ṭalāl, al-Ḥasan
98n
Ibn Taymiyya
6
ibn Tibbon, Yehuda
6
ibn Yūsuf, Sa‘īd al-Fayyūmī
(
see Gaon, Sa‘adia
)
Ibrāhīm, Ḥāfiz
27, 52–53
Ibrāhīm, Ḥannā
100
Ibrāhīm, Istīrīna
XIIIn
Ibrāhīm, Najma
28
identification
XV, 22, 77, 118, 119, 137, 155, 156, 271
identity
72, 75, 110, 122, 131, 133, 134, 135, 136, 144, 146, 149–190, 191, 192, 197, 199, 201, 286, 309
Arab, Arabic identity
17, 79, 159, 160
Arab-Jewish identity
XI, XIII, XV, 73, 79n, 85n, 111, 142, 143, 161, 182, 190, 192, 193, 195, 196, 197–200
ascriptive identity
154n
communal identity
36, 193
cultural identity
X, 8, 78n, 172, 182
essential identity
161
ethnic identity
106, 164
fluid identity
162, 168n, 175
identity crises
166
identity politics
142, 153, 154
Israeli identity
IX
Israeli-Jewish identity
161
Jewish identity
XI, 16, 32, 73, 78n, 136, 138, 160, 182, 183
Jewish-Zionist identity
XI, 159
Mizrahi identity
85n
national identity
78n, 106, 136
postmodern identity
164
religious identity
24, 106, 182, 182
Sephardi-Mizrahi identity
129
ideology, ideological
3, 16, 17, 95, 140n, 152, 154–158, 160, 192, 196, 201, 204
Arab-Jewish ideology
155
Ashkenazi ideology
135
bourgeois ideology
155
Communist ideology
84
ideological recognition
155
Ideological State Apparatuse (ISA)
155–156
ideological subject
155
ideology of Arabism
17
Zionist ideology
130
Idrīs, Yūsuf
157n
ighrāq
115
Iliad
46
‘ilm al-naḥw
54
‘ilm al-ṣarf
54
inclusive, inclusion
18, 129
Independence Day (Israel)
83
In der Strafkolonie
185
India, Indian
14, 41, 46, 49, 169, 210n, 224n
individualism, individualistic
166n
hyper-individualists
171
inessential solidarity, solidarities
XIII
in medias res
134
integration
3, 11, 13, 127, 149, 161, 183
intelligentsia
31, 32, 35, 55, 84
Intentional Fallacy
198
Interference (cultural)
2, 4, 12n
International Prize for Arabic Fiction
153
interpellation
146, 154–162, 164, 165, 167, 173, 174, 175, 177
,
(
also hailing
)
intifada
175
invention, invented, reinvented
45, 54, 82, 157, 246
invented identity
142
invented tradition
23n, 138–139, 284, 285
Iran
73, 100, 280
Iran-Iraq War
132
Iraqi Jews Speak for Themselves
21n
Irnāna (pl. Arānīn)
45
Isḥāq, Salīm
30
Isḥayyiq (Sehayik), Malīḥa
XIV
Ismā‘īl (Khedive)
22
Israel (Ceresi, Shīrīzī), Marcel (Marsīl)
33n
Israeli Defense Forces (IDF)
83
Israel Prize
127
Isrā’īlī (=Jewish)
26n
al-Isrā’īlī (an Arabized Jew who converted to Islam)
5, 6n, 9, 36n
al-Ṭā’ifa al-Isrā’īlīyya
36n
Istanbul
18, 264
Italy. Italian
22, 27, 146, 169, 171
al-Ittiḥād
96, 100
Jabotinsky, Ze’ev
310
jack-of-all-trades
55
al-Jadīd
85, 89, 96, 99
Jamaican
162
Jamāl al-Dīn, Samīr
99n
James, Henry
178–179
Jameson, Fredric
141
Jam‘iyyat al-Mar’a al-Jadīda
53
al-Jamra al-Thāniya
57
al-Jamra al-Ūlā
55, 56–57
al-Janābī, ‘Abd al-Qādir
152n
Jane Eyre
105
Japanese
169
al-Jarīma al-Ghāmiḍa
130
Jenīn
125
Jerusalem, Jerusalemites
23, 106, 138, 143, 144, 195, 309, 310, 311, 312, 313, 314, 315, 318
Jesuit
15, 29
Jesus
120
Jewish Agency
137, 140n
al-Jinān
33
journalism
21, 22, 23, 30, 49, 134
Joyce, James
200
Jubrān, Jubrān Khalīl
39, 40n, 41, 130
Jubrān, Sulaymān
58n
Judeo-Arabic
3, 4, 5, 11, 12
Kafka, Franz
106, 146, 185
Kafr Qāsim Massacre
86–89
Kāhin
111n
Kalām
4n
Kamishli
80n
Kandinsky, Wassily Wassilyevich
133–134
Karaite, Karaites
11, 23–24, 27
Karīm, Muḥammad
52n
al-Karmil (Haifa)
131
Kashrūth
282
al-Kāẓim, Mūsā
280
Keats, John
47
Kedourie, Elie
20
Kellner, Douglas
166–167, 169
Kennedy, Robert F.
170n
Khaḍḍurī (Khedhourie), Sassoon (Sasūn)
21n
al-Khalīlī, Ja‘far
42
Khamīs al-‘Adas quarter (in Cairo)
259
Kharja
7
al-Khayyām, ‘Umar (Omar Khayyam)
30n
Khazars
7
Khiṭāb fī Ta‘līm al-Nisā’
53
Khurunfish quarter (in Cairo)
259, 260
Khuṭba fī Ādāb al-‘Arab
53
kibbutz, kibbutzim
137, 138, 139, 141
Kiddūsh
282
King Lear
200
Kiryat Ono
VI, IX, 318
Kitāb al-Aghānī
34
Kitāb al-Ḥujja wa-l-Dalīl fī Naṣr al-Dīn al-Dhalīl
7
Kitāb al-Muḥāḍara wa-l-Mudhākara
7
Knesset
130n, 140n
Kūhīn (Cohen), Raḥmīn
26
Kol ha-‘Am
130
Kovner, Abba
123
Kūhīn (Cohen), Līlyān (nicknamed Kāmilyā)
28
Kūkayin
27
Kurds, Kurdish, Kurdistan
12n, 19, 45, 63
Kūt
50
lā ikrāha fī al-dīn
33
lakum dīnukum wa-lī dīnī
33
Lamb, Charles
46
Landshut, Siegfried
21
language (the concept of)
186–190
last Mohicans
202
Latin
5, 31, 113, 116, 169
Laylā Mumṭira
28n
Lazari-Moyal, Esther (Istīr Azharī-Mūyāl)
XIVn
League of Nations
18
Lebanon, Lebanese
XIV, 31, 33, 34, 39, 45, 52, 163
Lebanon wars
125, 128
left, leftist
84, 89, 97, 100, 128, 143, 159
legitimacy
74, 135
leisure
167, 169, 170
Lemarachand, Joseph (Jean Sulivan)
149
Les Misérables
42
Le mythe de Sisyphe
55
Levant, Levantine
58, 128, 156, 160
Levi, David Haim (Dā’ūd Ḥusnī)
27
L’Évolution créatrice
55
Levy, Lital
196
liberal, liberalization
30, 51, 58n, 126, 127, 128, 132, 156
Libya
14n
Lifton, Robert Jay
162, 190
lingua franca
3, 6
liturgical
4, 12, 123n
Livorno
22
Lo bi-Mkoma
134
London
XI, 45, 183, 195, 210, 261, 264, 317
London Matriculation Examination
14n
London, Jack
130
Luron, Khatoum
15
Lūzā al-Asyūṭī, Naṣr
33n
ma‘abara, ma‘abarot (immigrant camps)
85, 123, 124, 130, 131, 132, 137, 138
Maalouf, Amin (Amīn Ma‘lūf)
163
al-Ma‘arrī, Abū al-‘Alā’
X, 34
Mabāḥith fī al-Iqtiṣād al-Irāqī
45
Macbeth
XIV
machismo
169
Madame Bovary
126
al-Madina
1
al-Madrasa al-Ḥadītha
25–26
Mafriyaḥ ha-Yonīm
138–139, 140, 141
Maḥberot Iti’el
11
Mahdī
120
Maḥfūẓ, Najīb
116–119, 126, 140, 188
Maimonides
5
mainstream
11, 125, 126, 140
Israeli-Zionist-Hebrew mainstream
126
mainstream Arabic literature
30
mainstream Israeli society
124, 125, 129, 134
majlis
5
Majmū‘at Qaṣā’id min al-Shi‘r al-Ramzī
56
majnūn
111n
Makmal, Yūsuf
35n
al-Malā’ika, Nāzik
40n, 47n, 58, 60, 97n
Mālikī, Sa‘d Ya‘qūb
26
Manchester
317
al-Manfalūṭī, Luṭfī
34, 39
Mani, Sulayman Menahem
123
Mappu, Avraham
24n
maqāma
11, 168n
al-Mar’a al-Jadīda
52
Marcos (Rafael Sebastián Guillén Vicente)
169
marginalization, marginalized
IX, 55, 102, 127n, 137, 165, 169
market
31, 51, 54, 61, 113, 170, 210
black market
234
market triumphalism
170
Marmorstein, Emile
20–21, 75, 242
marriage
12, 50–51, 63, 65, 68, 71, 118n, 132, 135, 174, 246, 259, 264, 266, 268
Marx, Karl
88
Marxist
154
Māsarjawayh
3
al-Mashriq
29n
al-Mashriqī, Aḥmad
(
see Mizrāḥī, Tūgū
)
Masjid al-Kāẓimiyya
280n
mask, masks
117n, 189, 292
master, mastery
5, 8
“a master of a thousand crafts”
55
Zionist (master) narrative
124, 135, 138, 141
matruz
12
Mawāsī, Fārūq
59n, 79n
Mayan
169
al-Māzinī, Ibrāhīm ‘Abd al-Qādir
34, 40n
McDonald
130
McKibben, Bill
171
Megged, Aharon
138
melting pot
297
Melucci, Alberto
169–170, 190
memoirs
107, 138, 317
memory, memories
45, 64, 88n, 95n, 107, 110, 131, 153n, 157, 170, 196, 231, 242, 274, 287, 290, 291, 304, 312, 313, 317
Menaḥem, Naḥum
80n
Menasheh, Ṣāliḥ
(
see Sammy Michael
)
Mesopotamia
3, 4, 19, 20, 30
Messiah, Messianic
12, 21, 110, 141
meta-fiction
143, 191–202
Metaḥīm ve-Aflaya ‘Adatit be-Yisra’el
80n
Mexico
169
Mi’a Qiṣṣa wa-Qiṣṣa Miṣriyya wa-Gharbiyya
26
Michael, Mr.
15
Michael, Sami, Sammy (Sāmī Mīkhā’īl)
17n, 99–102, 124–127, 161, 175–176, 177, 179, 186–188, 196, 232–237, 318
“The Artist and the Falafel” VII, 99, 100–102, 175–176, 178, 179, 186–187, 203; (translation)
232–237
Middle Ages, medieval
X, 2, 4, 5n, 6n, 7, 11, 24, 25, 28, 36n, 80n, 81, 82, 83, 85, 104, 113, 114, 119
Midhat Pasha
13
migration, emigration, immigration, immigrant, émigré
28, 45, 70, 74, 77, 78, 84, 101, 107, 123, 126, 130, 134, 137, 140, 159, 160, 161, 162, 170, 182, 183, 196, 287, 288, 292, 293, 308n
mass immigration
125, 139
Miḥnat al-‘Aql wa-Qaṣā’id Ukhrā
56
Mīkhā’īl (Michael), Murād
IX, XII, 41–44, 48, 207–208, 318
“The Miserable Man” VII, 42–44, 203; (translation)
207–208
Ministry of Absorption (Israel)
137
Ministry of Agriculture (Israel)
124
Ministry of Defense (Israel)
79n
Ministry of Education (Israel)
79n, 84, 127, 137
Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Iraq)
44
Ministry of Religious Affairs (Israel)
74, 195, 242
minority, minorities
13, 25, 30, 74, 77, 78–81, 86, 87, 89, 126, 127, 169, 196
min al-shi‘r al-mutkham bi-l-nathr
109
al-Miṣbāḥ
31, 41, 49, 150
Mishmar Ha-‘Emek
137
Mishnah
131
Miṣrī Fallāḥ
52
Mizrahi, Mizrahim, Mizrahiness
100, 126, 127, 128–129, 156, 160
Mizrahi identity
85n, 129, 142
Mizrahi radical intellectuals
85n
Mizraḥi, Albert
33n
Mizrāḥī, Tūgū (Togo)
27, 28
Mnashshī, Ṣāliḥ
(
see Michael, Sami
)
modern, modernist, modernism, modernity, modernization
1, 13, 14, 16, 24, 29, 34, 42, 49, 52n, 57, 69, 89, 91, 96, 166, 167, 172, 200
modern civilization
55, 106
Mohawk
169
Molière
22
monolithic
160
monolithic category
160
monopoly
25
Moor, Moorish
201
Moreh, Shmuel
XII, 35n, 77, 99, 127, 181, 183, 195, 261–265, 318
“A Dancer from Baghdad” VII, 35n, 181, 183, 195, 203; (translation)
261–265
Moriel, Shelomo
41
Moses, Mosaic
V, IX, XI, XII, 9, 16n
mother tongue
14, 99, 123, 197
motif, motifs
24, 30, 55, 64, 115n, 124–125, 173
Mount Carmel
232
Moyal, Shimon (Shim‘ūn Mūyāl)
XIVn
Msika (Messika), Ḥabība (Ḥbiba)
12n
mubālagha
115
Mudhakkirāt Khādima
131
Mudhi, Miklif Hamad
38n
Muḥammad (the Prophet)
9, 111n, 114
al-Mujtama‘
80, 81
Mūl ha-Ḥoma
134
al-Mullā, Maryam
XII, XIII, 63, 177–178, 194, 228–229, 318
“His Tragedy, a Proverb” VII, 63, 177, 194, 203; (translation)
228–229
multiplicity, multiple
58, 165, 166, 167, 190, 198
mundus inversus
68, 112–120
al-Muqtaṭaf
34
Murād, Laylā
22n, 28
Murād, Salīma
138
al-Murūj
80
al-Murūj wa-l-Ṣaḥārā
42
al-Musawi, Muhsin Jassim
35
mushrikūn
6
music, musician, musical
X, XI, 12n, 15, 27, 28, 45, 83, 107, 134, 139, 262, 289n, 310n
al-Mutanabbī, Abū al-Ṭayyib
34, 152
Muṭrān, Khalīl
40n
muwashshaḥ
7, 42
My Antonia
146
My Name is Salma
58
mysticism, mystic, mystical
4, 11, 98, 104, 183–184, 185, 186, 188, 190
(
Sufism
)
myth, mythical
55, 133, 141, 159, 199
“neo-lachrymose” countermyth
159
Nahariya
242, 318
Nahḍa
30, 55
(
Haskala; Enlightenment
)
al-Nahḍa al-‘Irāqiyya
45
Naḥūm, Rabbi Haim
25
Nājī, Ibrāhīm
40n
name, names
15, 28, 50n, 69, 110n, 137n, 156, 160, 183, 193, 310
for characterization (fiction)
59–60
nickname
6n, 22, 27, 28, 36n, 133, 135, 184, 188, 190, 216
(
pseudonym
)
pen name
al-Naqqāsh, Rajā’
25n
Naqqāsh, Samīr
XII, XIV–XV, 99, 100n, 110–122, 126n, 146, 168, 173–174, 177, 178, 179–180, 189, 196–202, 295–308
“Prophecies of a Madman in a Cursed City” VIII, XIV–XV, 99, 110–122, 146, 168, 173–174, 178, 179, 189, 197–202, 203; (translation)
295–308
Naqrat al-SalmÄn
84
narrative
23n, 36, 37n, 38, 49, 50, 52n, 57, 69, 73, 74, 103, 110, 122, 124, 135, 157, 158, 173, 180, 183, 193
Zionist (master) narrative
124, 135, 138, 141
narrativization
165
narrator
XIV, 36, 37, 38, 42, 43, 51–52, 58, 61, 62, 64, 65, 68, 69, 70, 72, 73, 74, 75, 101, 103, 104, 105, 108, 111–112, 119–122, 139, 143, 144, 145, 146, 157n, 168, 173, 174, 175, 178, 179, 183, 186, 187, 188, 189, 193, 195–196, 197, 198, 201–202, 204, 298n
Nāshif, Ismāʽīl
85n
Nashrat al-Athīr
81
national, nationalist, nationalism, nationality
IX, 8, 15, 17, 18, 20, 28, 35, 36, 45, 47, 55, 64, 75, 77, 80, 86, 95, 97, 106, 139, 144, 150, 154n, 161, 163, 172, 193, 202, 309
Arab nationalism
IX, 17, 19n, 158
Egyptian nationalism
22, 23, 33
national conflict
55, 77
national home
20
national identity
78n, 136, 172
national language
8
national vision
158
nation-state
13, 17, 158
native
IX, 15, 43, 103, 106, 107, 138, 142, 149
Nazi, Nazism
77
Near East
3
neo-Pythagorean
4n
New Year
4, 43, 44, 134
New York
40n, (as a Jewish city) 20
Nietzsche, Friedrich
141
al-Niffarī, Muḥammad ibn ‘Abd al-Jabbār
184
Nigerian
201
Ninth of Av
4
Nippur
298n
Nobel Prize
126, 131, 175
North Africa, North African
1, 12, 13, 14n, 154n, 160n
nostalgia
74, 96
novel, novels
15n, 24n, 34, 42n, 52, 58, 64n, 70, 107, 109, 117, 123–133, 137–141, 145–146, 149n, 153, 157, 158, 164, 182, 201, 202, 317n
novella
75, 133, 174, 185, 188, 317n
Nu‘ayma, Mīkhā’īl
40n
Nuzhat al-Mushtāq fī Ta’rīkh Yahūd al-‘Irāq
31
‘Obadyā, Ibrāhīm
XII, 21n
Obermeyer, Jacob
16
Occupied Territories
175
October Revolution
84, 88n, 95n
Odyssey
46, 162n
Old Testament
22, 178
‘oleh ḥadash
137
Oneness
98
One Thousand and One Nights
(
Alf Layla wa-Layla
)
Oppenheimer, Yochai
140–141
Orient, Oriental
15, 21, 27–28, 30n, 51, 124, 127, 128, 138, 140, 141, 156, 160, 176, 195, 261
Orientalism, Orientalist
37n, 99n
Othello
XIV
Other, otherness
IX, 11, 18, 101–102, 127, 132, 133, 137, 159, 161–162, 164, 166, 168, 175
Otot Stav
133–134
Ottoman
13, 15, 19n
Ottoman Empire
14, 30
Oud
310
outsider
43, 73, 132, 134
Paḥonīm ve-Ḥalomot
125
Palestine, Palestinian
4, 19n, 20, 21, 23, 24n, 28, 30, 55, 70, 74, 77, 78–79, 80, 84, 85n, 86n, 89, 96, 97, 98, 100, 101, 108, 123, 126, 127, 128, 131, 144, 152, 157n, 158, 159, 169, 174, 175, 274, 282, 284, 309, 311, 312n
Israeli Palestinian
100
Palestinian issue, cause
77
Palestinian minority (in Israel)
78, 80, 81, 87
Palestinian teachers
19n
Palgrave, Turner Francis
39–40
Pamuk, Orhan
64n, 157n
pan-Arabism
17
panegyric
9
Paris
15, 22, 23, 130, 134, 210, 272
Parks, Tim
172
Passover
4, 259, 271, 282, 292
patriot, patriotic, patriotism
17, 18, 30, 33n, 77, 79, 80, 81, 83, 150
particularistic patriotism
29
Pentecost
4
performative
163, 173, 197, 200
Persia, Persian
2, 12n, 19, 30n, 46
persona
10, 74, 127, 135, 149, 150, 151, 157n, 186, 189
(
speaker
)
personification
43
Petach-Tikva
298n, 318
philological
24
Phraim! Phraim!
75
Piamenta, Moshe
127
pilgrim, pilgrimage
98, 146, 265, 280 (as a metaphor for modern life) 167
Pinhas-Cohen, Hava
129
Pisa
122, 295, 296
Piyyut
7
player
112, 297 (as a metaphor for postmodern life) 167–168
pluralistic, plurality, pluralism
IX, 11, 33, 125, 127
poetry, poets, poetics
200, 315
Arabic poetry
X, XI, XV, 1, 4, 6–12, 23–26, 35, 39, 40–42, 45–46, 49, 54–55, 56, 58, 64n, 80–98, 108n, 114, 149, 152, 157n
Hebrew poetry
3, 8, 123n, 148n
medieval Arab court poets
24, 81
poetic models
6
Poland, Polish
138, 163, 169, 313
polytheists
6
population
9, 17, 81, 87, 101 (in Baghdad) 19, 77
“positive” culture, literature
78, 81, 96
post-Cartesian
163
postmodern, postmodernism, postmodernity
163, 166–170
preference, preferences
4, 8, 99, 123, 124, 128, 130, 132, 150, 153, 166n, 180
pre-Islamic
IX, XIV, 1, 2, 8n, 9, 25, 27, 29, 202
primitive, primitivism
38n, 160
primordialist, non-primordialist
163-164, 189
prison, imprisonment
63, 81, 87, 88n, 94, 103, 184, 189, 221, 229, 238–241, 263, 268, 280, 308n
“prison-house of language”
141
prose poem
41, 42, 45
protagonist
XIV–XV, 43, 50n, 67, 75, 104, 110, 130, 132, 134, 138, 139, 140, 146, 164, 177, 178, 181, 186, 187–188, 189, 200, 201–202
(
hero, heroine, heroic, anti-hero
)
protean (self), proteanism
162, 166, 190
protest
62, 64, 66, 85, 89, 121, 124, 125, 126, 130, 221, 240, 249
Proteus
162
pseudonym
27n, 36, 41, 52, 107, 149n, 193, 204n, 317, 318
psychoanalysis
163, 170, 199
Pūrīm
292
Puzo, Mario
146
qadar
6
Qambar ‘Ali quarter (in Baghdad)
106
qānūn
310
al-Qānūn al-Asāsī al-‘Irāqī
18
Qarārat al-Mawja
58
qaṣīda
6, 24, 25, 42, 47n, 96, 157n
Qasmūna
10, 83n
Quebec
169
Qur’ān, Qur’anic
2, 5, 6, 22, 33, 54, 111n, 114, 137, 149, 251, 253, 294 (knowledge among Jews) 2, 5, 33
al-Qushayrī, Abū al-Qāsim
183
Ra‘anana
142, 317
rabbi, rabbinic
5, 7, 13, 25, 86
Rabin, Yitzḥak
132
al-Rābiṭa al-Qalamiyya
40n
race, racial
18, 20, 103, 136, 163, 290
Radcliffe Institute
XV
radio
144, 272, 275, 313
Rāḥīl Shaḥmūn School
41, 64
Rasā’il Ikhwān al-Safā
34
Ravitzky, Aviezer
129
reader, readers, readership
XIII, XIV, XV, 24, 37–38, 42, 44, 48, 49, 52, 61, 66, 67, 69, 72, 74, 74, 82, 85, 101, 103, 105, 106, 107, 109, 111, 121, 122, 134, 136, 138, 140–141, 143, 145, 146, 155, 157, 158, 173, 174, 175, 177, 178, 180–183, 186, 189, 192, 193, 195, 197, 198–202
realistic, realism
44, 49–76, 89, 101, 103, 115, 116, 118, 141, 176, 191, 246
rebab
37
reform, reformation, reformist
13, 16, 30, 50, 57, 60, 79n, 115, 189
Rejwan, Nissim (Nissīm Rajwān)
20, 34
relations, relationships
XI, 4n, 9, 14, 15, 22, 24, 31, 58, 61, 68, 70, 73, 75, 81, 102, 111, 121, 135, 136, 137, 139, 151, 162, 164, 165, 168, 170, 176, 187, 190
author and his text
200
child-adult relationships
125
Jewish-Christian-Muslim relationships
125
literary texts and history
191–201
male-female relations
57, 63, 64, 65, 69, 79, 112, 120
Muslim-Jewish relations
1n, 2n, 74, 159, 183
power relations
78n
religion, religious
IX, 2, 3n, 7, 8, 13, 15, 16, 18, 21, 23, 46, 56, 63–64, 74, 75, 80, 81, 96, 98, 101, 106, 107, 109, 110, 115n, 119, 123n, 129, 133, 142, 149, 156, 160, 171, 175, 176, 183, 188, 193, 195, 228, 230, 280, 282n, 289n
“religion is for God, the fatherland is for everyone”
33, 149
religious ceremonies
4
religious coexistence
83, 98
religious identity, identification
8, 22, 24, 69, 77, 106, 122, 182, 183
religious leader
16
religious minorities
30
religious poems, hymns
12
religious tolerance
106, 166n
religious traditions
7
renaissance
28, 32, 45, 54
repressive state apparatuses (RSAS)
156
resistance
68, 169, 299
Retsö, Jan
111n
revolution, revolutionary, revolutionized
16, 27, 30, 31, 58, 75–76, 87, 88, 141, 146, 299
Arab Revolutionary Committee
18, 150
October Revolution
84, 88n, 95n
Young Turk Revolution
30
rhetoric, rhetorical
5n, 38, 82, 103, 112, 115, 116, 156, 159, 182
rhyme
6, 42, 55, 89, 91
al-Rīḥānī, Amīn
41
Riḥlat al-‘Umr min Ḍifāf Dijla ilā Wādī al-Tīms
45
Rijāl wa-Ẓilāl: Qiṣaṣ wa-Ṣuwar Qalamiyya
46
al-Risāla
34
al-Risāla fī ‘Ilm al-Taṣawwuf
183
Risālat al-Ghufrān
X, 34, 308
al-Riwāya
34
Roman
4
Romance (culture)
7
romances
34, 66
Romanticism, romantic
22, 39–42, 47, 48, 55, 64, 76, 101, 105, 128, 179
Rothschild, Lord
20n
Royal School of Medicine (Baghdad)
14n
Royle, Nicholas
191, 200
Rubā‘iyyāt
30n
Rūmānū (Romano), Jāk
27
rupee
49, 210, 224, 226
al-Ruṣāfī, Ma‘rūf
41, 53, 151
Russia, Russian
133, 138
Sa‘adia Gaon
4
Sabetaian
12
Sabra
IX, X, 138, 140, 142
Sabra and Shatila Massacre
108
Sab‘ Sanābil Hazīla
108
Sadan, Dov
196
al-Sādāt, Anwar
107, 108n, 176
Saʽdāwī, Aḥmad
153
Said, Edward W.
16n, 127n
saint
109, 188
al-Sakākinī, Khalīl
311
Sākin al-Ghābāt
41
Salah — Po Ze Eretz Yisrael
160n
Sālim, Najwā
28
Sallāma
27
al-Sammāk, Mahdī
14n
ṣamt
104, 183–184
San Cristobal
169
Sandel, Michael J.
170
San Francisco
169
Ṣanū‘,Ya‘qūb (James Sanua)
21–23, 25, 26, 134
San Ysidro
169
Saramago, José
145–146
Sāriqū al-Mawtā
55
Ṣarrāf, Aḥmad Ḥāmid
30n
Sārra al-Qurayẓiyya
1
Sartre, Jean-Paul
101–102
Ṣawt Isrā’īl
81
(
Dār al-Idhāʽa al-Isrā’īliyya, Voice of Israel
)
al-Sayyāb, Badr Shākir
97
Sayyidat al-Fajr
26
Scheindlin, Raymond P.
9
Schizophrenic, schizophrenia
144, 145
Second World War
24, 75, 77, 100
secular, secularist, secularization
6, 13, 14, 16, 20, 30, 33, 34, 35n, 55, 109, 127n, 130, 142, 149, 150, 158, 166n
security risk
79n
Sefarad
11
Sefer ha-Kuzari
7
self, selfhood
173, 175
definition of self
73
many-sided self
162
narrativization of the self
165
performative self
163
protean self
162, 168–169, 190
self-ascriptive
154n
self-consciousness
201
self-control
268
self-deception
68
self-denial
144
self-expression
101
self-justification
124
self-made man
47
self-preservation
63
self-referential
134
self-reflexive
166
self-sustaining subject
163
Semah, David
XII, 84–98
Sephardi, Sephardim, Sephardic
123, 127, 128, 137, 140, 156, 160
Sephardic Federation in the United States
137
sexual, sexuality
39, 58, 61, 67, 68, 102, 104, 105, 109, 112, 114–115, 117, 126, 139, 140, 179, 263
Shabak (the general security service)
79, 129
al-Shābbī, Abū al-Qāsim
40n
Shabtay, Aharon
128
al-Shafaq al-Aḥmar
26
Shaharabānī, Eliyahu
V, X–XII
shā‘ir
111n
shā‘ir al-rabāba
37
Shakespeare, William
XIV, 23, 46, 200
Shammās, Anṭūn (Anton)
127
Shammās, Maurice
XII, 28n, 99, 107–110, 176, 177, 178, 187–188, 258–260, 318
“Sheikh Shabtāy” VII, 99, 107–110, 176, 178, 187–188, 203; (translation)
258–260
Shammāsh School
21, 41, 55, 80
al-Shams (al-Chams)
26
Sharḥ
4
Sha‘shū‘a, Salīm Murād (Shelomo Shashoua)
XII, 80–84, 97
Shattā, Hilāl
26
Shā’ul, Anwar
VI, IX, 15, 31, 35n, 36n, 37, 49–55, 61, 63, 65, 132–133, 150–152, 168, 181, 193–194, 209–211, 318
“Violette”
50–55, 61, 65, 168, 181, 193–194, 203; (translation) 209–211
Shā’ul, Nājī
84
Shavīm ve-Shavīm Yoter
124
Shawqī, Aḥmad
24–25, 33n
al-Shaykh Shabtāy wa-Ḥikāyāt min Ḥārat al-Yahūd
107
Shedīm ba-Martef
125
Shedīm Ḥumīm
125
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
46
Shem, Semitic
17, 24, 27, 77
Shenhav (Shaharabani), Yehuda
85n, 154n
Shiblak, Abbas (ʽAbbās Shiblāq)
30, 32
al-Shidyāq, Aḥmad Fāris
55
Shiite, Shias
6, 19, 99n, 262
al-shi‘r dīwān al-‘Arab
40
al-shi‘r al-ḥurr
41, 96
shi‘r manthūr
41
Shlonsky Prize
123
Shmuel ha-Nagid
7, 10
Shohat, Ella
100, 127n, 154n
Shoḥet, Nīr
123
Shukrī, ‘Abd al-Raḥmān
40n
Simeon, Abba
109
al-Sindibād (Sinbad)
121–122, 133, 303, 304
singularity
171–174, 178
Samīr Mārid
100, 318
(
see Sammy Michael
)
Smyrna
110n
Solo
134
Somekh, Sasson
77, 84–97, 127, 188
song, songs, singer
12, 22n, 27, 28, 37, 46, 83, 89, 98, 128–129, 139, 140, 152, 157n, 244, 261–265, 293
Sorbonne
130, 131
South Africa
169
Spain
4, 6, 11, 129, 169
speaker
10, 74, 127, 135, 140, 149, 150, 151, 157n, 186, 189
(
persona
)
Stahl, Abraham
138
standard literary Arabic
9, 30, 34, 129, 182
(
fuṣḥā
)
Stern, Samuel Miklos
8
Stevens, E. S.
(
see Drower, Ethel Stefana
)
storytellers
36–37, 130, 138
(
ḥakawātī
)
stream-of-consciousness
135, 136–137
stroller (as a metaphor for postmodern life)
167–169, 190
strophe, strophic
7
structural, structuralism
104, 105, 170
subjects, subjectivity
73, 154–159, 162–166, 171–178, 197–200
self-sustaining subject
163
social subjects
165
subject position
156–158, 165, 167
subversive, subversion
22, 39, 80n, 118
Sūfa Bein ha-Dekalīm
125
Sufism, Ṣūfī
4, 30n, 37, 98, 104, 183–184
(
mysticism
)
Sukkot
292
sunnī, Sunnis
19
Sūsa, Aḥmad Nissīm (Ahmed Sousa)
22n, 132–133
suture
165
al-Suwaydī, Tawfīq
17n
symbiosis, symbiotic
XII, XIII, 1, 2, 6, 11, 17, 102, 202
symbol, symbolic, symbolism
XIV, 4, 55, 56, 73, 75, 97, 101, 112, 118n, 125, 133, 134n, 137, 146, 165, 173, 189
synagogue
16, 275, 283, 287, 289, 290
Syria, Syrian
6, 19, 20, 22, 30, 33, 34, 45, 46, 52, 80n, 109, 124, 190, 280
Syriac
3, 46n
systems of power
156
taf‘īla
96n
Tagore, Rabindranath
41
Ṭāhā, ‘Alī Maḥmūd
40n
Ṭāhir, Shaykh Aḥmad
33n
Taḥkemonī
11
Taḥrīr al-Mar’a
52
Taḥrīr al-Sh‘ab
33n
Tal, David
154n
al-Ṭālib, ‘Umar
76
Talmud, Talmudic
3, 5, 44, 133
Tanqīḥ al-Abḥāth li-l-Milal al-Thalāth
5
al-Ṭanṭāwī, ‘Alī
19
Tanzimat
13
Tarnegol Kapparot
138, 141
Ṭarrāzī, Philip de
23
al-Tas‘īra
33n
Taufar, Barbara
15n
Tayma’
1
Taḥkemonī
11
Tchernichovski, Shaul
86
Tebeet
262, 282n
Tehran
21n, 41
ten Bos, René
172
Te’omīm
125
Tel-Aviv Mizraḥ
131
al-Thaqāfa
34
theater, theatrical
21, 22, 29, 55, 107, 134, 167, 310
Haifa Municipal Theater
125
The Fortunate Pilgrim
146
The Golden Treasury
39–40
The Iron Heel
130
The Museum of Innocence
157n
The Scribe ― Journal of Babylonian Jewry
45
The Sound and the Fury
109
Tigris
5
al-Tijāra
44
Til Abubi
298n
Tolstoy, Leo
126
Tom ha-Bikkūr
134
Torah
18, 63, 98, 133, 285
(
Bible
)
tourist (as a metaphor for postmodern life)
167–168
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
184
tradition, traditional
XII, 2, 7, 8, 12, 21, 23, 24, 25, 37, 39, 40, 41, 44, 50, 56, 57, 61, 62, 63, 65, 79, 80, 85, 96, 100, 102, 103, 105, 107, 110, 114, 115n, 119, 120, 126, 137, 138, 146, 154, 156, 166, 170, 194, 198, 231, 262, 282n, 286
Aristotelian tradition
5
invented tradition
138
translation, translators
X, XIV, XV, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 18, 22, 23, 24, 30, 33, 34, 35, 37, 42, 45–46, 47, 55, 99, 106, 124, 126, 127n, 130, 131, 135, 170, 182, 183, 190, 193, 198, 199, 201, 317n, 319n
transnationalism
17–18
travelers
16, 72
“trailed travelers”
202
tribe, tribes
1, 149, 166
Tripoli (Libya)
14n
Tūmā, ʽĀyida
125n
Tunis, Tunisia, Tunisian
12, 31, 40n, 310
Turkey, Turks, Turkish
12n, 19, 30, 45, 46, 65, 128, 169, 264, 268, 280, 284
Young Turks
30
Ṭuwayq, Na‘īm Ṣāliḥ
35n
Ughniyyāt li-Bilādī
83
Ulysses
200
Umm Kulthūm
27
uncanny
104
United States
40n, 127n, 129, 132, 137
University of Haifa
124, 131
un-Jew
135
urban
84, 101, 240
utopia, utopian
41, 42, 89, 95, 96, 97, 133
vagabond (as a metaphor for postmodern life)
167–168
Ve-Hu Akher
131
vernacular
3, 7, 22, 30, 34, 76
(
‘āmmiyya, dialect
)
Victoria
126
Vienna
15
Vilna
15
Voice of Israel
IX, XII, 81
(
Dār al-Idhāʽa al-Isrā’īliyya, Ṣawt Isrā’īl
)
Wafd Party
33n
Wajdī, Anwar
28
war, wars
39, 40, 65, 101, 126, 132, 141, 280, 282, 290, 311
(
First World War; Second World War
)
1967 War
118, 119, 140, 153
1973 War
125, 134
Lebanon wars
125, 128
Warā’ al-Sūr wa-Qiṣaṣ Ukhrā
103
Waswasāt Iblīs
63
al-waṭaniyya dīnunā wa-l-istiqlāl ḥayātunā
33n
al-Waṭaniyya School
41, 64
West, Western
XIII, 14, 26, 34–35, 40, 42, 43, 49, 58, 63, 78n, 82, 98n, 105, 113, 127, 129, 135, 138, 141, 162, 163, 179, 193, 201, 311, 315
West Bank
125
Western civilization
2, 162
Western colonialism
99n
Western culture
14, 27–28, 153
Western literature
35n, 105, 113, 179, 201
Westerness
122
Westernization, Westernized
16, 19, 51, 99n, 112, 122
Western values
103, 138
white
59, 60, 156
(
black
)
Wimsatt, William Kurtz
198
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
184
Wolfensohn, Isrā’īl (Israel) (Abū Dhu’ayb)
27–28
Wolman, Dan
138
Woolf, Virginia
178–179
world upsidedown
112–120
Wuthering Heights
105
Yalde Ḥuts
131
Yarā‘ī al-Awwal
26
Yasmīn
140–141
al-Yawm
74, 80, 81
Yehoshua, Ya’acob
153n
Yehuda al-Ḥarīzī
11
Yemenite
144, 312
Yezierska, Anzia
146
Yiddish
309
Yishuv
140, 312n
Yizrael Valley
138
Young Turks
30
Zaghlūl, Sa‘d
33n
al-Zahāwī, Jamīl Ṣidqī
41, 53
zajal
157n
Zamīr, Shlomo
123
Zapatista
169
Zaydān, Jurjī
34
Zaynab
52
Zayyād, Tawfīq
86n, 88
al-Zayyāt, Muḥammad Ḥasan
34
Zeus
113
Ziffer, Benny
128
Zionist, Zionism
X–IX, XIII, 12n, 15–16, 20–21, 24, 27, 31, 32, 36, 70, 73–74, 77, 78n, 79–81, 85n, 97, 99, 108, 124, 127, 130, 132, 135, 137–141, 154n, 159, 161, 175, 183, 202, 290, 312
Zirid
7
Zoroastrian
2
zuhhād
104
al-Zuhūr
30
Zuhūr wa-‘Uṭūr
83
Zvi, Shabbetai
110n