Arabic literary thresholds : : sites of rhetorical turn in contemporary scholarship / / edited by Muhsin al-Musawi.

• TeilnehmendeR: Mūsawī, Muḥsin Jāsim.; Stetkevych, Jaroslav.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2009.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Brill ebook titles
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (357 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This volume, dedicated to Jaroslav Stetkevych, includes a number of original contributions that signify a rhetorical shift in the social sciences and Arabic studies. The articles and essays deal with Orientalism, classical Arabic tradition, Andalusian poetry, Francophone literature, translation, arc...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material / M. Al-Musawi
• 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 ʿAlid Legitimacy Elegy for al-Ḥusayn Ibn ʿAlī on ʿĀshūrāʾ, 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-Nābulusī’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-ʿArabī / Michael Sells
• Poetry And Architecture: A Double Imitation In The Sīniyyah Of Aḥmad Shawqī / Akiko M. Sumi
• Metapoetry Between East And West: ʿAbd 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 / M. Al-Musawi
• Index / M. Al-Musawi.