Foreword

ADAM BEDNARCZYK, MAGDALENA KUBAREK, MACIEJ SZATKOWSKI
The Dialogue of Modernity and Tradition in Literature: A Proposal for a Redefinition in the Context of the Orient and Orientalism / 7

JOANNA MUSIATEWICZ
A Young Lebanese in theNineteenth-CenturyEuropeanCity.Rome,Paris,London,BerlinandViennain the Eyes of Salīm Bustrus / 21

MAGDALENALEWICKA
Arabic Linguistic Layer of the Writings of Grand Duchy ofLithuaniaas Exemplified by Tafsir of Alytus / 37

SEBASTIAN GADOMSKI
The Past as a Mirror of the Present – Sulṭān Bin Muḥammad al-Qāsimī’s Historical Dramas / 69

MAGDALENA KUBAREK
The Faces of Rebellion in Contemporary Arab Literature / 81

ARZU SADYKHOVA
Kalīla wa-Dimna in Russian Literature / 99

IWONA MILEWSKA
Sāvitrī – An Indian Story of a Faithful Wife as Shown in Polish Literary Sources / 109

VÍT ULMAN
The Question of Modernity and Tradition in the Literature of theFiveMountains/131

NATALIA BADIYAN-SIEKIERZYCKA
Victorian Female Travelers and Orient / 145

Index of names / 157