Arabic literary thresholds : sites of rhetorical turn in contemporary scholarship / edited by Muhsin al-Musawi. - xvii, 339 pages : Illustrations ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Arabic literary thresholds: sites of rhetorical turn in contemporary scholarship / Muhsin al-Musawi -- Rewriting literary history: the case of the Arabic novel / Roger Allen -- Abbasid popular narrative: the formation of readership and cultural production / Muhsin al-Musawi -- Al-Sharīf al-Raḍī and the poetics of ʻAlid legitimacy elegy for al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī on ʻĀshūrā', 391 A.H. / Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych -- Early Islam: monotheism or henotheism? A view from the court / Samer M. Ali -- Literary hybridization in the zajal: Ibn Quzmān's Zajal 88 (The visit of Sir Gold) / James T. Monroe -- "On the battleground:" Al-Nābulus̄i's encounters with a poem by Ibn al-Fāriḍ / Th. Emil Homerin -- Return to the flash rock plain of Thahmad: two nasībs by Ibn al-ʻArabī / Michael Sells -- Poetry and architecture: a double imitation in the Sīniyyah of Aḥmad Shawqī / Akiko M. Sumi -- Metapoetry between East and West: ʻAbd al-Wahhāb al-Bayātī and the western composers of metapoetry: a study in analogies / Aida O. Azouqa -- "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 -- Curriculum vitae : Jaroslav Stetkevych.

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Arabic literature--History and criticism.



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