This study compares the translation manuscript Dagarna with four different book translations of al-Ayya¯m into English (1932), French (1947), Swedish (1956) and Norwegian (1973) respectively. The investigation focuses ...

K. V. Zettersteéns newly discovered translation from 1953 of Taha Husayn’s al-Ayya¯m (The Days) is the first translation from modern Arabic prose literature into Swedish as far as we know today. It was made to convince ...

In 1908, the desire of docent David Myhrman to qualify himself for the professorship of Semitic languages at Lund University by editing a large Arabic work on ethics, resulted in a tense relation to his superior at ...

The Egyptian author Taha Husayn’s autobiographical novel The Days has not been used as a source to the history of religions to any large extent. This article wishes to address if and how it can serve as a potential ...

The Swedish Qur’an translation by K. V. Zetterstéen from 1917 is here viewed from a historical perspective. The development of the study of »Oriental languages« at the Swedish universities in the 19th century relates ...