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2024 Publications
Book Title: The Tunisian Revolution : A Long Historical Work, Tunisia from 1574 to 2023
Subject: Intellectual
Author: Mahmoud Ben Romdhane
Dimensions : 16*24 cm
Number of pages : 546
Language: French
Publication Date : 2024
Selling Price : 45 TND
Price abroad: 45 EUR
ISBN : 978-9973-49-257-9
On the surface, Dr Mahmoud Ben Romdhane’s book “The Tunisian Revolution”, appears as a passionate exploration seeking to unveil the secrets of a people’s centuries-long journey. At its core,however, it is a profound intellectual meditation on the unique and exceptional nature of a civilisational framework.
Outwardly, it presents data tables tracking economic ratios and transformations across various eras and under diverse governance models. Yet, in essence, it offers intellectual reflections on the economic framework that guarantees economic rights as fundamental and universal rights to realise full citizenship.
Similarly, though it outwardly displays data and statistics on the varying margins of freedoms and human rights violations under different frameworks, it inwardly delves into intellectual meditations on universal human rights standards and constants.
Lastly, it appears on its surface to draw comparisons between political systems, forms of governance, and patterns of tyranny and authoritarianism, however inwardly it presents intellectual reflections on the optimal institutional system to fortify the citadels of freedom.
Thus, Dr Mahmoud Ben Romdhane soared within its discourse on the wings of a political scientist and the convictions of a human rights advocate who believes in the necessity of the critical intellectual inquiry regarding the essence of the revolution’s objectives and the pathways to their fulfillments. This pursuit sought to grasp its fundamental truth and apply scientific rigor to formulate its concept.
Book Title : The Andalusian Heritage in Tunisia:
From the Thirteenth Century to Today
Subject : Intellectual
Collective work under the supervision of Professor Raja Yassin Bahri
Dimensions : 16*24cm
Number of pages : 600
Languages: Arabic- French- Spanish
Date of Publication : 2024
Selling Price : 45 TND
Price abroad : 45 EUR
ISBN : 978-9973-49-253-1
The book, “The Andalusian Heritage in Tunisia: From the Thirteenth Century to Today”, comprises the proceedings of an international symposium of the same name, held at the headquarters of the Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters, and Arts “Beit al-Hikma” on November 25-26,2021.
The symposium was organised by the Academy’s Department of Literature in cooperation with The Spanish Embassy in Tunis, The Cervantes Cultural Center, the Higher Institute of Music, and the National Library of Tunisia.
The symposium included interventions by prominent Arab, Spanish, and French thinkers who focused on unaddressed areas related to political, economic, linguistic, religious, heritage, and musical issues within the Andalusian heritage in Tunisia.
The book is part of a joint publication between “Beit al-Hikma” Academy, The Spanish Embassy in Tunis and The Cervantes Institute.
Book title: Habib Bourguiba …The reformer
Subject: Intellectual
Author: Collective work under the supervision of Professor Ahmed Ounais
Dimensions : 16*24 cm
Number of pages : 184
Language: French
Publication Date : 2024
Selling price: 23 TND
Price abroad: 23 EUR
ISBN : 978-9973-49-254-8
What made leader Bourguiba a social reformer ? How was his reform project revolutionary ? And why did Habib Bourguiba bet on investing in minds ? What is the nature of educational stakes in Bourguiba’s thought ? What are the most prominent social reforms accomplished during the Bourguiba era ? And why do some believe in Bourguiba’s presence among us today ?
These are the issues addressed by a group of prominent researchers, academics, and diplomats interested in public affairs issues, at a symposium organised by the Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters, and Arts “Beit al-Hikma”, in partnership with the Bourguiba Studies Association, focusing on the Bourguiba experience and its reform dimensions.
This event took place on June 1st-2nd, 2022, and its proceedings focused on the achievements of the national state that contributed to establishing societal model with modernising features despite the extent of the constraints.
Book title: Tunisian Literature in French
Literature, Imagination and History
Subject: Literary
Author: Collective work under the supervision of Professor Mohamed Kamal Eddine Kahha
Dimensions : 16*24 cm
Number of pages : 280
Language: French
Publication Date : 2024
Selling Price : 36 TND
Price abroad: 36 EUR
ISBN : 978-9973-49-255-5
The book, published by the Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters, and Arts “Beit al-Hikma”, contains intellectual and literary approaches presented by a group of academics and creators during workshops and study days. These events were organised by the Academy’s Literature Department and focused on Tunisian literary works in French.
The interventions explore the manifestations of acculturation and the ways international creative genres influence and impact each other. This highlights the universal nature of the creative text, despite its specific characteristics.
Furthermore, the book’s content addresses the commitment of literary works to their historical issues, given their transformative tasks that go beyond the functions of contemplation, description and narration of events.
Book Title: Memoirs of Kheireddine Pacha (Second edition)
Subject: Historical
Edited and Arabised by Mohamed EL Arbi Essenoussi
Dimensions : 16*24 cm
Number of pages : 322
Language: Arabic
Publication Date : 2024
Selling price: 28 TDN
Price abroad: 28 EUR
ISBN : 978-9973-49-251-7
Most readers have limited themselves to what was presented in “Aqwam Al Masalik Fi Ahwal Al Mamalek” (The Surest Path to Knowledge Concerning the Conditions of Countries) when analysing Kheireddine’s reformist ideas. This has sometimes led them to misunderstand him and not give him his due.
And perhaps that is due to the fact that they were most likely unable to access his memoirs, which he wrote in French and dictated to his private secretary. Mohamed Salah Mzali was able to obtain the notebooks containing these memoirs as well as most of his documents and correspondence in Arabic and French, from his son Mohamed Taher Kheireddine .
Even though these memoirs were published in French in 1971 in a limited number of copies, they were quickly sold out. This made it essential to translate them into Arabic. This translation would allow new generations of researchers and readers to access them and to reconsider Kheireddine’s stance on his brother-in-law Mustafa Khaznadar and his disgraceful injustices. It would also shed light on Kheireddine’s position regarding the Ottoman Empire and France as well as his endeavour to maintain a kind of balance to protect Tunisia from occupation, the signs of which began to appear in his last days when he was the Grand Vizier to Sadok Bey.
The documentary value of these memoirs is invaluable, as they provide an accurate understanding of the multidimensional project of the reformer Kheireddine Pasha, rooting the concept of modernity that we urgently need and honoring his role and his rational, open-minded ideas. Furthermore, they are a devotion to the value system capable of fostering a society that knows no bounds to intellectual renaissance and continuous reform.
Book Title: Inherited Flavours, Shared Flavours
Subject: Intellectual
Author: Collective work under the supervision of Professor Sihem Debbabi Missaoui
Language: French
Publication Date : 2024
Dimensions : 16*24 cm
Number of pages : 294
Selling price: 22 TND
Selling abroad: 22 EUR
ISBN : 978-9973-49-252-4
The book contains the proceedings of a symposium organised by a research team at the Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters, and Arts “Beit al-Hikma”. This team focuses on food studies and cultures in the Mediterranean region and Islamic World in partnership with the Djerba Cultural Center.
The symposium took place on November 20-21, 2022, alongside the Francophonie Summit. The book addresses the elements of richness in the Tunisian culinary heritage , as seen in its numerous cultural and religious sources.
The approaches of academics and researchers focus on the phenomenon of coexistence between Muslims, Jews, and Christians throughout history, which has led to various forms of food acculturation. It is therefore natural for every cultural and religious project to contribute its accumulated food industries, traditions, and culinary experiences.
Consequently, a shared cultural legacy is established, encompassing shared flavours, shared tastes, and shared food industries.
Title: Al Youssi’s Journey by Mohamed Al Ayachi Ibn Al Hassan Al Youssi (The second edition)
Edited by Ahmed Al Bahi
Subject: History
Language: Arabic
Number of pages: 226
Format: 16×24
Date of Publication: 2024
Price: 30 TND
Price abroad: 30 €
ISBN: 978-9973-49-182-4
The book is an essential reference in travel literature for it is a creative work which, rather than merely narrating a biography, documents historical events and their political, economic and social dimensions. In this context, the author shows that there was a large number of pilgrimage journeys by land from the Maghreb because of the struggle on the region’s coasts between Spain and the Ottoman Empire for control of the Strait of Sicily. For this reason, Al Youssi’s Journey (1690-1691) is a scholarly historical source for researchers, historians, anthropologists, political scientists, etc. Indeed, it is a document full of facts, bringing together the geographical information that one might find in a tourist guide and historical data, for it documents events. As a result, the editor, Ahmed Al Behi, considers it as illustrative of one of the most important literary forms characteristic of the Maghreb region since the Middle Ages, stating on this count: “this book is an important link in the chain of journeys to Mecca and Al Hijaz documented by people from the Maghreb as they fulfilled their Pilgrimage duty or traveled in pursuit of knowledge.”
2023 Publications
Book title:Mohamed-Salah Mzali: The Tread of My Life
Author: Ilyes Jouini
Forward by: Kmar Ben Danah
Language: French
Publication Date: 2023
Dimensions: 16×24 cm
Subject: Intellectual
Number of pages:768
Selling Price: 45 TND
Price abroad: 45 EUR
ISBN: 978-9973-49-249-4
The book chronicles the political career as well as the professional and educational paths of the politician and scholar Mohamed Salah Mzali. According to the work, Mzali was a blend of historian, economist, educational reformer and political leader, having held major ministrial positions, such as the Grand Vizier (Prime Minister) before independence.
This work goes beyond the narrative style of traditional memoirs, as it raises political issues, documents economic transformations and records a series of events that shaped both the local reality and the external context.
This book, which includes numerous testimonies, was published by the Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts “Beit al-Hikma”in cooperation with Cérès Editions and the Institute for Research on the Contemporary Maghreb.
Book Title: The Surest Path to Knowledge Concerning the Conditions of Countries (Aqwam -al-Masalik)
Author: Kheireddine Ettounsi
(Two volumes)
Introduction and Critical edition: El Moncef El Chanoufi
Subject: Chronicles of States and Capitals
Language: Arabic
Dimensions: : 16×24 cm
Number of pages: 1065 pages
Publication Date: 2023
Selling Price: 80 TND
Price abroad: 80 EUR
ISBN:
978-9973-929-61-7 (Volume One)
978-9973-929-62-7 (Volume Two)
This is the fourth edition of the complete book “Aqwam-al-Masalik”, following the original edition published in Tunis, in 1867 and the third edition released by” Beit al-Hikma “ in 1990. The republication of this book serves important academic and intellectual goals. It includes an analytical study of Kheireddine Ettounsi, featuring a comprehensive timeline of his biography contextualised within his era, and a second table that clearly illustrates his impact on the development of political prose and travel literature in the nineteenth century.
The book also contains a complete introduction to “Aqwam-al-Masalik”, which includes its preface, the first book (describing twenty countries), the second book (covering the sections of the globe), the conclusion, and the commendations.
Furthermore, this edition includes a bibliography that addresses Kheireddine’s biography, his reformist doctrine, his works, and his era drawing upon recent studies. It also features indexes of Quranic verses, prophetic hadiths, prominent figures, poems, places, mentioned books and terminology.
An observer of Kheireddine Ettounsi’s experience through “Aqwam al-Masalik” will perceive his call for renewal and reform across various aspects of social, political, and economic life in Tunisia.
It is well known that Kheireddine was unable to implement most of the liberal ideas and political visions presented in his book due to numerous political maneuvers and the many adversaries of this reformist approach. Nevertheless, the book captured the attention of the intellectual and political elite at the time and remains to this day one of the most prominent works in the field of reforming governance systems and advocating for the utilisation of the civilizational achievements of other nations. This highlights Tunisia’s pioneering role in this regard.
Book Title: Free Thought in the Present: A Tribute To Abdelwaheb Meddeb
Subject: intellectual
Collective Work
Language: French
Dimensions: 16×24 cm
Number of pages: 266
Publication Date: 2023
Selling Price: 35 TND
Price abroad: 35 EUR
ISBN: 978-9973-49-246-3
The book falls within the tributary works dedicated to thinkers and creators active in knowledge domains and mainly concerned with public affairs issues. It contains the proceedings of an international symposium held in honor of the late Tunisian writer Abdelwahab Meddeb (1946-2014), organised by the Department of Human and Social Sciences at the Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters, and Arts “Beit al-Hikma” on November 21-22, 2019.
The presentations of the symposium focus on the issue of free thinking in new contexts, the most prominent themes in the late Abdelwahab’s writings concerning the causes of “the illness of Islam”, his works related to comparative litarature, writing and dual genealogy, and on his contributions in the field of translation, which he considered an essential mechanism for resisting the clash of civilizations and the collision of cultures.
Generally, the contents of the work emphasise his modernising tendency, which rejects forms of intellectual fanaticism, highlighting his rebellious media message, which he particularly employed in French media to defend the progressive tendency resisting the intellectual stagnation and the fabricated conflict between cultures.
Book title: Civil Society And Democracy In Southern Mediterranean Countries: What Solidarity In Times Of Crisis?
Subject: Intellectual
Collective work
Language: French
Dimensions:16×24 cm
Number of pages: 81
Publication Date: 2023
Selling Price: 20 TND
Price abroad: 20 EUR
ISBN: 978-9973-49-244-9
Is it permessible to reduce democracy to a unilateral definition? Or are there multiple democracies? What is the impact of dominant lobbies (The lobbies) on democratic processes ? What roles can civil society forces play to fortify the strong holds of democracy? What is meant by participatory democracy? What is illiberal democracy?
These are the problematic issues addressed by this collective work, which includes the proceedings of a round table organised by The Department of Letters at The Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters, and Arts “Beit al-Hikma” on March 30,2021, in cooperation with the Sicily Chair for the Dialogue of Cultures and Civilizations concerning the problematic of :Civil Society And Democracy In Southern Mediterranean Countries: What Solidarity In Times of Crisis
Book title : The Seminars of The Department of Arts
Annual Review 2022- N°1
Subject : Artistic
Collective Work
Languages : Arabic-French
Dimensions : 16×24 cm
Number of pages:120
Publication Date: 2023
Selling Price: 25 TND
Price abroad: 25 EUR
ISBN :978-9973-49-245-6
The book compiles a series of seminars, lectures and research workshops organised by the Department of Arts at The Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters, and Arts “Beit al-Hikma” during the 2022 academic season.
The collection of studies and interventions included in the work addresses intellectual approaches and specialised academic research related to theatrical, cinematic, and visual artworks, as well as forms of discourse , the communicative functions of artistic creations, and critical theses. This collective work also focuses on the tangible and intangible heritage values that the arts undertake.
Title: World heritage and Historical Urban Landscapes
Topic: artistic
Author: edited by professor Faika El-Bejaoui.
Language: French- English.
Dimensions: 16 ×24 cm.
Number of pages: 218
Publication date: 2023
Price: 30TND
Price of sale abroad: 30€
ISBN: 978-9973-49-245-6
The book contains contributions from experts, academics, and researchers interested in issues related to world heritage, who discussed the factors threatening world heritage sites over two days on October 21-22, 2019,at the Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Literature ,and Arts “Beit Al –Hikma”. This took place during an international conference organized by the Arts Department of the Academy, coinciding with the annual meeting of the International Committee on Historical Towns and Villages (CIVVIH).
The book’s contributions address the usefulness of the agreements and laws enacted by UNESCO to protect world heritage, and emphasize the need to raise awareness of the factors threatening heritage sites in order to enhance global efforts to protect them as a human memory, since all heritage and natural sites are indicative of humanit
2022 Publications
Title: A new reading of the public debt crisis of the 1860s in Tunisia
Author: Mustapha Kamel Nabeli
Language: French
Publication date: 2022
Dimensions: 16 ×24 cm
ISBN: 978- 9973- 49- 241- 8
Publication date: 2022
Price: 15TND
Price of sale abroad: 15€
The book is a part of the “Bait al- Hikma” series of publications by the Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts for the year 2022. In it, the economic expert Mustapha Kamel Nabeli discusses the nature of public debt during the 1860s, addressing the main causes that led to the emergence of that crisis, as well as exploring the nature of its repercussions.
The author employs various contemporary concepts and analytical tools in his approach to understanding the crisis that prevailed in the past century. This confirms the renewal in reading a crisis that intertwines political and economic aspects, and was influenced by national and international considerations. Therefore, the author pays attention in his book to an approach based on comparative analysis with regional and global crises.
The book title: “Communication to the Elite about Legal Concessions for Slaves and Boys”
Topic: intellectual
Author: Ahmed Barnaz
Reviewer : Hayet alMajri
Language:arabic
Number of pages:638
Date of issue: 2022
Price: 54 TND
Price of sale abroad: 54 €
ISBN: 5-242-49-9973-978
The book falls within the references interested in educational issues and the rules of upbringing within the family environment, as well as in the general social fabric. It focuses on the legal limits of discipline and forms of punishment such as retaliatory means.
The book presents a critical approach in which Ahmed Barnaz (1664-1726 CE) highlights the legal risks of traditional prevailing theories in Tunisian society during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, which unfairly target social groups such as women, who are often reduced to sensory functions by the dominant view.
In short, the book “Communication to the Elite about Legal Concessions for Slaves and Boys” is an exemplary work that highlights the progressive dimension of Ahmed Barnaz, who rejected the hierarchical division of society and courageously criticized all forms of discrimination contrary to legal logic.
The book title: “Al – Takmil Al – Shafi Li ‘l – Galili Ala Kitab Al-ibar “by abd Al Rahman khaldoun “
A comprehensive review of” the book of lessons” by abd Al Rahman khaldoun
Topic: scientific
Author: Mohamed Al – Saghiar Ibn Youssef
Editor: Mohammed Fawzi Al – Mustaghanmy
Reviewer: Mounira Shabuto Al – RAMADI
Language: Arabic
Dimensions: 6 ×24
Number of pages:
Part 1: 378
Part 2: 411
Publication date: 2022
Price: 70 TND
Price of sale abroad: 70 €
ISBN:
Part 1: 978 – 9973 – 49- 230 – 2
Part 2: 978 – 9973 – 49 -231 – 9
The book focuses on the relationship between Ibn Khaldoun’s approach in historical studies and works in the Hafsid period, as well as the issue with regard to the 17th and 18th century chronicles.
The book is a part of the complementary series of previous publications prevalent in Arabic and Western journalistic traditions, and documents the author’s use of the most prominent Eastern and Western sources circulating in Tunisian libraries.
Book Title: Tunisians Who are they? Where do they come from? The Genetic Discoveries
Topic: Scientific
Editing: Co-edited under the supervision of Professor Amal Ben Ammar Gaied
Language: French
Dimension: 16 × 24
Page Number: 255
Date of Publication: 2022
Selling Price: 28dt
ISBN: 978-9973-19-834-1
Who are the Tunisians? Where did they come from? Can their ethnic origins be traced? Are they Berber? How are they related to settlement movements? In what sense is the scientific diagnosis of ethnic identity correct?
Published by The Tunisian Academy for the Sciences, Letters and Arts “Beit Al Hikma” in collaboration with Ceres Publications, this scientific book deals with all these issues, including a collection of various specialized scientific studies which are essentially collected from settlement history in Tunisia.
Most studies in the book confirm the genetic diversity of Tunisian society due to the numerous settlement movements coming from various geographical locations throughout the stages of history. Hence, the diversity of the genetic and hereditary structure according to the book’s contents.
Book Title: The Dreams in the Mediterranean
Topic: Scientific
Author: Multiple
Language: French
Dimension: 16×24
Number of pages: 149
Publication Date: 2022
Selling Price: 27 Dinars
Price Abroad: 27 Euros
ISBN: 978-9973-49-236-4
This Book is part of a scientific collection series that was published by The Tunisian Academy for the Sciences, Letters and Arts “Beit Al Hikma” in 2022 and co-edited by clinical psychotherapy Professor from the University of Tunis Riadh Ben Rejab and psychotherapy Professor Bianca Le Chevalier. Professor Le Chevalier is from France and is specialized in neuro-psychotherapy.
The book contains scientific contributions on dreams in general with a special focus on the Mediterranean region. These contributions were delivered by an international research team during a conference that took place in March 2022 in the Tunisian city of Kelibia. Dreaming is a global phenomenon that presents common factors and that is amenable to scientific scrutiny. Yet, the academic researchers specialized in the field of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis highlight the specificity of certain manifestations of dreaming. They emphasize the therapeutic functions of dreams as subliminal and cathartic acts that regenerate the psychological makeup. Some contributions also deal with the importance of dreaming in shaping the being through creativity and innovation.
Book Title: The Vagrant Pen: From Shore to Shore, From One Culture to Another.
Topic: Literary texts and miscellaneous articles
Author: Alia Baccar Bornaz
Language: French
Dimension: 16×24
Number of pages: 343
Publication Date: 2022
Selling Price: 36 Dinars
Price Abroad: 36 Euros
ISBN: 978-9973-49-228-9
This book contains literary texts and miscellaneous articles through which the author locates the Tunisian cultural project both regionally and globally by highlighting the role of cultural icons in the creative, historical and artistic fields. Major themes include the Tunisian Women’s Rights Movement, democracy and the current challenges facing Tunisia. The author includes several eulogies of some important late figures from diverse cultural fields.
The book also contains several articles and interviews that convey the author’s view on some issues pertaining to public affairs, her academic journey, her career, her family history as well as some outstanding creative icons like her sister Kalthoum Bornaz, a screenwriter and film director, whom she considers a star in search of a lost light beam.
Book Title: “Beit Al Hikma” Conferences 2021-2022
Topic: Scientific and literary conferences
Language: (Arabic-French)
Dimension: 16×24
Number of pages: 517
Publication Date: 2022
Selling Price: 39 Dinars
Price Abroad: 39 Euros
ISBN:978-9973-49-237-1
This book is part of a collection series that is regularly published by The Tunisian Academy for the Sciences, Letters and Arts “Beit Al Hikma”.
These works contain the activities of the symposia, the study days, the meetings and the conferences organized by the scientific departments in the academy throughout the academic years.
Book Title: The Pertinent Thought of Saint Augustine Challenging the 21st Century
Topic: Philosophical
Author: Multiple
Language: (French-English)
Dimension: 16×24
Number of pages: 200
Publication Date: 2022
Selling Price: 30 Dinars
Price Abroad: 30 Euros
ISBN:978-9973-49-234-0
The book contains the first session of the Saint Augustine Carthage Festival which was organized by The Tunisian Academy for the Sciences, Letters and Arts “Beit Al Hikma” in November 2019. This event is inscribed in the academic research on the common heritage of Augustinian philosophy as an intellectual project requiring modern approaches centering on current issues and future prospects. Hence, the forum’s interventions revolved around the conundrums of identity, personality, theology and issues pertaining to the spiritual experience. Special focus was put on Saint Augustine’s philosophy and the challenges of the 21st century. From these interventions, we get a sense of the universality of this philosophical school which, espousing philosophical logic, upheld its engagement in public affairs notwithstanding the political and religious particularities of its times.
Book Title: Life and Thermodynamics: or
Reality and the Proteiform Masks of Energy
Topic: Scientific
Author: Rafik Boukhris
Language: (French)
Dimension: 16×24
Number of pages: 358
Publication Date: 2022
Selling Price: 52 Dinars
Price Abroad: 52 Euros
ISBN:978-9973-49-233-3
The book figures in the scientific publications of The Tunisian Academy for the Sciences, Letters and Arts “Beit Al Hikma” and deals with the intellectual and the scientific changes that were brought by the science of thermodynamics especially those related to physical, biological and universal phenomena in general. According to the author, thermodynamic laws are crucial to the understanding of the universal order because they imposed the re-examination of various postulates, rectified many conventional ideas and settled many problems related to physical and biological complexity. This provided the scientific conditions for the understanding of infinity, energy and universal order. From this vantage point, Doctor Rafik Boukhris affirms the never-ending dialectic between philosophy and the sciences. The philosophical vein arms scientists with relativity and allows them to engage all topics in the quest for truth. Hence, the author highlighted the importance of relativity, quantification and permanent calibration. Thanks to the scientific discoveries, a major philosophical question remerges in agreement with Leonardo da Vinci’s quote: “The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.” Doctor Boukhris used this quote as an opening hook to distinguish the ever-questioning problem-posing mind from the dogmatics who turn the back on existential and cosmological interrogations and condemn the lovers of troubling questions.
2021 Publications
Book Title: Francophone Literature in Tunisia
Evolution, Renewal and the Future
Subject: Literature
Author: Collective work under the supervision of Professor Alia Bakar Bornaz
Language: French
Size: 24×16
Number of pages: 277
Date of issue: 2021
Sale price in Tunisia: 25 TND
Sale price abroad: 25 EUR
ISBN: 978-9973-49-229-6
Proceedings of the international symposium organized by the Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Literature and Arts’ “Beit al-Hikma” Literature Department on 10-11 December 2020 on the processes of francophone literature in Tunisia. The contributions focus on the emergence and future of creative works in French, which, the authors argue, have historically been linked to the spread of the French language in the world. It also focuses on the characteristics of francophone literature in Tunisia compared to global francophone literature, such as the Moroccan francophone literature, which share a number of commonalities. The literary experience is not detached from what is prevailing. It is rather organically linked to its subject frameworks, which explains what peoples share. The contributors argue that Tunisian francophone literature belongs to the country’s literary heritage.
Title of the book: Al-Mu’lim bi Fawaid Muslim (3 Vols.)
Subject: Islamic Studies
Author: Al-Imam Al-Mazri
Reviewer: Mohammad Al-Chedly Al-Naifar
Language: Arabic .
Size: 24×16
Number of pages:
Vol1:576
Vol2: 498
Vol3: 458
Date of publication: 2021
Sale price in Tunisia: 110 DT
Price abroad: 110€
ISBN: Vol.1. 978-9973-49-222-7
Vol.2. 978-9973-49-223-4
Vol.3. 978-9973-49-224-1
Al-Imam Al-Mazri lived at a period of political disintegration in the parts of the Sinhaji state and a division of faith between Sunnis and Shiites. Like other Moroccan scholars, he was concerned with the “Al-Jami’ Assahih’ by Imam Muslim Ibnu Al-Hajjaj, using it for teaching and excluded Al-Bukhari, finding Assahih more adapted to what he sought as ideas and opinions and to his own method.
Al-Jami’ is considered one of of Muslim’s forst interpretative works, as no one had preceded him. Al-Imam Al-Mazri mentions that he did not intend to write the book but it was read to him in the month of Ramadhan 499 H, so he provided comments. When they finished the reading, his friends presented to him those comments, which he reviewed, refined and corrected, removing certain parts.
In this work, Al-Mazri seems to be Ash’ari, a faqih and a linguist
1) He adopted Al-Ash’ari’s and his circle’s views. In his defense of the Sunna, he brings together texts and exposes them in a way that suits the intellect. He never attacked the Mu’tazila, his opponents and he never used his texts to insult or avenge himself on them.
2) Al-Mazri is a Faqih who, like Imam Malik, has opted for Ijtihad. His Fatwas reflect the interpretations and his knowledge of the application of rules (Ahkam) in accordance with the critical circumstances experienced by Muslims.
3) He is a linguist familiar with the language books written at his time and before. He is knowledgeable of the secrets of language and its tricks, which explains his careful attention to the strangeness of discourse and reflects his desire to investigate the vague Prophet’s words, often resisting understanding for they are rarely used.
Subject: Arts
Language: (Arabic – French)
Author: Collective author
Number of pages: 200
Size: 16×24
Date of publication: 2021
Sale price in Tunisia : 20 TND
Sale price abroad: 20 Euros
ISBN: 978-9973-49-225-8
Proceedings of the symposium organized by the Arts Department of the Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts “Beit al-hikma” 13-14 March 2010. In these contributions, Academics and researchers from various creative fields discussed terminological issues related to dependence, and translation as a mechanism that goes beyond the interaction between languages towards intercultural communication, theoretical discourse, betrayal of concepts, the problem of “meta-language” and “meta-knowledge”, and the foundations of aesthetic theories in artistic genres in general and in Tunisian semantic fields in particular. Therefore, the content of the book emphasizes the need for awareness of the importance of the concepts of contextual meaning, language dynamics and the creativity of the semantic field. What is required is creating concepts, not importing them, and practicing the rituals of mummifying and guarding them.
Série de publications honorifiques
Guide to the publications (2019-2020)
Guide to the publications (2016-2018)
Guide to the publications (2011-2015)
Guide to the publications (1983-2010)
