The weaving of words
Subtitle: approaches to classical Arabic prose
By: edited by Lale Behzadi, Vahid Behmardi.
Contributors: Behzadi, Lale.; Bihmardī, Waḥīd.
Series: Beiruter Texte und Studien, 0067-4931 -- Bd. 112; Beiruter Texte und Studien -- Bd. 112.
Publisher: Orient-Institut; Ergon in Kommission; Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft; Ergon Verlag
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Beirut; Würzburg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9783899136784
Subjects: Arabic prose literature -- 750-1258 -- History and criticism; Arabic language -- Rhetoric -- History; Maqamah
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Ibn al-Muqaffaʻ's Kalīla wa-Dimma and Boccaccio's On Poetry: a hybrid poetics and avant-garde hermeneutics  -- Marianne Marroum; title: Short stories in classical Arabic literature: the case of Khālid and Umm Salama  -- Jaako Hämeen-Anttila; title: Literary criticism as literature  -- Geert Jan van Gelder; title: Love in the time of pilgrimage or A lost maqāma of Ibn Durayd?  -- Philip F. Kennedy; title: Tawqīʻ (Apostille): royal brevity in the pre-modern Islamic appeals court  -- Beatrice Gruendler; title: The aesthetics of pure formalism: a letter of Qābūs b. Vushmgīr  -- Everett K. Rowson; title: Rhetorical values in Buyid Persia according to Badīʻ al-Zamān al-Hamadhānī  -- Vahid Behmardi; title: The art of entertainment: forty nights with Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī  -- Lale Behzadi; title: The art of the muqaddima in the works of Abū Manṣūr al-Thaʻālibī  -- Bilal Orfali; title: The double entendre (tawriya) as a hermeneutical stratagem: a 'forensic maqāma' by Abū Muḥammad al-Qāsim b. ʻAli al-Ḥarīrī -- Angelika Neuwirth.