Classical Arabic humanities in their own terms
Subtitle: festschrift for Wolfhart Heinrichs on his 65th birthday
By: presented by his students and colleagues ; edited by with the assistance of Michael Cooperson.
Contributors: Heinrichs, Wolfhart.; Cooperson, Michael.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 611
ISBN-13: 9789004165731
Subjects: Arabic philology; Civilization, Arab
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements; title: Preface; title: Tabula gratulatoria; title: At drink your milks! -at as individuation marker in Levantine Arabic / Kristen Brustad; title: Yayyar the companion, spy, scoundrel in premodern Arabic popular narratives / Peter Heath; title: Balagha rhetorique aristotelicienne (rethorica) et faculte oratoire (oratoria/balagha) selon les didascalia in "rethoricam (sic!)" Aristotelis ex glosa Alpharabii / Maroun Aouad; title: Some morphological functions of Arabic bi- : on the uses of galex / Dimitri Gutas; title: Hazaj: genese eines neupersischen metrums / Benedikt Reinert; title: Iblis and the jinn in al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya / William C. Chittick; title: Iqay: musikalische Metrik bei al-Farabi (gest. 950) und ihr Ebenbild bei Thoinot Arbeau (gest. 1595) / Eckhard Neubauer; title: Iqtinad: la confrontation est-ouest en mediterranee aux viie/xiie et viiie/xiiie siecles / Thierry Bianquis; title: Khiyab: "discourse" in the jurisprudential theory of Ibn Aqil al-Hanbali / A. Kevin Reinhart; title: Khutba: the evolution of early Arabic oration / Tahera Qutbuddin; title: Libas: die entliehenen Kleider des Abu Nuwas / Ewald Wagner; title: Mulamma in Islamic literatures / Nargis Virani; title: Qanida: its reconstruction in performance / Beatrice Gruendler; title: Qanida ghazaliyya-khamriyya : two lyrical poems by Hazim al-Qaratajanni (d. 684/1285) / Geert Jan van Gelder; title: Qia: Arabic cats / John Huehnergard; title: Safar: the early history of time travel literature : al-Muwayli's Hadith lsa b. Hisham and its antecedents / Michael Cooperson; title: Taybar al-ru'ya and Alkam al-nujum: references to women in dream interpretation and astrology transferred from Graeco-Roman antiquity and medieval Islam to Byzantium : some problems and considerations / Maria Mavroudi; title: Taman: the notion of "Implication" according to al-Rummani / Bruce Fudge; title: Tahaddi: gifts, debts, and counter-gifts in the ancient Zoroastrian ritual / Prods Oktor Skjarvo; title: Tamanni: If wishes were ... : notes on wishing in Islamic texts / Aron Zysow; title: Zarafa: encounters with the giraffe, from Paris to the medieval Islamic world / Remke Kruk.