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"Dżafar z Bagdadu" Janusza Makarczyka jako cenne źródło wiedzy o historii i literaturze arabskiej epoki Abbasydów

2018

This article deals with Janusz Makarczyk’s bestselling historical romance Jafar of Baghdad, first published in 1950. Makarczyk had a varied career as a journalist, travel writer of the ‘globtrotter school’, military officer, diplomat and academic; his deep involvement with the Middle East and Arab history began in the 1926 when he was sent to the Polish consulate in Jerusalem. The life of Jafar ibn Yahya provided him not only with enough material for a gripping story of love and romance but also a pretext for painting a broad canvas of historical events and personages. Addressed to younger readers, the book is didactic in the sense that it offers them basic information about Islam (e.g. the…

intertekstualnośćHarun al-RashidszyicisunniciHarun ar-RaszidJafar ibn YahyaadagiaPolish literature of the 20th centuryJanusz Makarczyk (1901–1960)Dżafarislamthe Orient and Islam in popular fictionKoranintertextualityBarmakidzihistorical romanceAbbasydziAbbasid EmpireRuch Literacki
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