On fiction and adab in medieval Arabic literature

Harrassowitz

2005

xxii, 326 pages

Studies in Arabic language and literature ; 6

9783447051828

ʻAbbasid myth and the human act / by Julia Bray -- Min Jumlat al-Jamād̄at / by Daniel Beaumont -- Probability, plausibility, and 'spiritual communication' in classical Arabic biography / by Michael Cooperson -- Verse and taxes / by Beatrice Gruendler -- The use of composite form in the making of the Islamic historical tradition / by Stefan Leder -- Masʻūdī and reign of al-Amīn / by Julie S. Meisami -- Serendipity, resistance, and multivalency / by James E. Montgomery -- Al-ḥārith ibn Ẓālim and the trope of Baghy in the Ayyām al-ʻArab / by Walter Oller -- Symbolic narratives of self / by Dwight F. Reynolds -- Defining Adab by (re)defining the Adīb / by Shawkat Toorawa

Английский