Arabic literary thresholds
Subtitle: sites of rhetorical turn in contemporary scholarship
By: edited by Muhsin al-Musawi.
Contributors: Mūsawī, Muḥsin Jāsim.; Stetkevych, Jaroslav.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9789004176898
Subjects: Arabic literature -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Arabic literary thresholds: sites of rhetorical turn in contemporary scholarship / Muhsin al-Musawi; title: Rewriting literary history: the case of the Arabic novel /  Roger Allen; title: Abbasid popular narrative: the formation of readership and cultural production / Muhsin al-Musawi; title: Al-Sharīf al-Raḍī and the poetics of ʻAlid legitimacy elegy for al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī on ʻĀshūrā', 391 A.H. / Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych; title: Early Islam: monotheism or henotheism? A view from the court / Samer M. Ali; title: Literary hybridization in the zajal: Ibn Quzmān's Zajal 88 (The visit of Sir Gold) / James T. Monroe; title: "On the battleground:" Al-Nābulus̄i's encounters with a poem by Ibn al-Fāriḍ / Th. Emil Homerin; title: Return to the flash rock plain of Thahmad: two nasībs by Ibn al-ʻArabī / Michael Sells; title: Poetry and architecture: a double imitation in the Sīniyyah of Aḥmad Shawqī / Akiko M. Sumi; title: Metapoetry between East and West: ʻAbd al-Wahhāb al-Bayātī and the western composers of metapoetry: a study in analogies / Aida O. Azouqa; title: "In a language that was not his own": on Aḥlām Mustaghānamī's Dhākirat al-Jasad and its French translation Mémoires de la Chair / Elizabeth M. Holt; title: Curriculum vitae: Jaroslav Stetkevych.