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Book SynopsisFriendship, though esteemed, has not been central in critical studies. It has been overshadowed by other bonding relationships. However, it figures as a privileged theme in classical, medieval, renaissance, and modern philosophy. More recently, sociological, anthropological, and psychological studies have explored the varied dimensions of friendship. Different cultures view friendship in various perspectives that intersect, contrast, and echo each other. In Middle Eastern, East Asian, European, and American thought, philosophers, jurists, and creative writers have explored the idea of friendship and their input is analyzed in this issue. Alif 36 foregrounds different ways of presenting friendship in diverse cultures and historical periods.
Table of ContentsDavid Konstan: Loyalty: The Missing Virtue in Classical Thought
Héba Machhour: L’amitié pour Montaigne: L’ami — le livre
Suha Kudsieh: Beyond Colonial Binaries: Amicable Ties among Egyptian and European Scholars, 1820-1850
Sara Nimis: “As if with him in bed”: Intimacy and Authority in Early Modern Arab Biographies
Ahmed Elnimeiri: Thoreau and Emerson: An Anatomy of a Friendship
Doaa Embabi: Friendship and Solidarity in Prison: Mandela and Habashi
Annemarie Pabel: “I want the diary to be my friend”: The Imagined Friend in Anne Frank’s Diary
Marwa Ramadan: Friendship without Boundaries: Spirituality and Sufi Wisdom in Schmitt’s Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Qur’an
Hala Amin: The Politics of Friendship in Manuel Puig’s Kiss of the Spider Woman
Mohamad Malas: Portrait of a Friend: Sonallah Ibrahim (Translated by Margaret Litvin)
