Writing and representation in medieval Islam
Subtitle: Muslim horizons
By: edited by Julia Bray.
Contributors: Bray, Julia.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
Subjects: Arabic literature -- 750-1258 -- History and criticism; Arabic literature -- 1258-1800 -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: List of contributors; title: Introduction; title: Acknowledgements; title: Note on conventions; title: Fact and fiction; title: Robert Irwin: Ibn Zunbul and the romance of history; title: Robert G. Hoyland: history, fiction and authorship in the first centuries of Islam; title: Julie Scott Meisami: Writing medieval women : representations and misrepresentations; title: Appearance and truth; title: James E. Montgomery: al-Jāḥiẓ's Kitāb al-bayān wa al-tabyīn; title: Philip F. Kennedy: The maqāmāt as a nexus of interests: reflections on Abdelfattah Kilito's Les séances; title: Julia Bray: the physical world and the writer's eye : al-Tanūkhī and medicine; title: Notes; title: Bibliographies; title: Index.