Classical Arabic humanities in their own terms : : festschrift for Wolfhart Heinrichs on his 65th birthday / / presented by his students and colleagues ; edited by Beatrice Gruendler ; with the assistance of Michael Cooperson.

The volume brings together approaches to different elements of Arabic-Islamic civilization, mainly in the areas of linguistics, literature, literary theory, and prosody, but also including religion, ritual, economics, and zoology. Contributions also touch upon the adjacent areas of the Old Iranian,...

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Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Brill eBook titles 2008
Physical Description:1 online resource (648 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Materials / B. Gruendler and M. Cooperson
  • -āt Drink Your Milks! āt as Individuation Marker in Levantine Arabic / Kristen Brustad
  • ‘Ayyār The Companion, Spy, Scoundrel in Premodern Arabic Popular Narratives / Peter Heath
  • Balāgha Rhetorique aristotelicienne (rethorica) et faculte oratoire (oratoria/balāgha) selon les Didascalia in \'Rethoricam (sic!)\' Aristotelis ex glosa Alpharabii / Maroun Aouad
  • Bi- Some Morphological Functions Of Arabic Bi-: On The Uses Of Galex, II / Dimitri Gutas
  • Hazaj Genese Eines Neupersischen Metrums / Benedikt Reinert
  • Iblīs Iblīs and the Jinn in al-Futūhāt al-Makkiyya / William C. Chittick
  • Īqā’ Musikalische Metrik bei al-Fārābī (gest. 950) und ihr Ebenbild bei Thoinot Arbeau (gest. 1595) / Eckhard Neubauer
  • Iqtiṣād La Confrontation Est-Ouest en Mediterranee aux VIIe/XIIe et Viiie/Xiiie siecles / Thierry Bianquis
  • Khiṭāb \'Discourse\' in the Jurisprudential Theory of Ibn ‘Aqīl Al-Ḥanbalī / A. Kevin Reinhart
  • Khuṭba The Evolution of Early Arabic Oration / Tahera Qutbuddin
  • Libās Die entliehenen Kleider des Abū Nuwās / Ewald Wagner
  • Mulamma’ In Islamic Literatures / Nargis Virani
  • Qaṣīda Its Reconstruction In Performance / Beatrice Gruendler
  • Qaṣīda Ghazaliyya–Khamriyya: Two Lyrical Poems by Ḥāzim al-Qarṭājannī (d. 684/1285) / Geert Jan van Gelder
  • Qiṭṭa Arabic Cats / John Huehnergard
  • Safar The Early History of Time Travel Literature: Al-Muwayliḥī’s Ḥadith ‘Isa B. Hishām and Its Antecedents / Michael Cooperson
  • Ta’bīr al-ruyā and aḥkām al-nujūm References to Women in Dream Interpretation and Astrology Transferred from Graeco-Roman Antiquity and Medieval Islam to Byzantium: Some Problems and Considerations / Maria Mavroudi
  • Taḍmīn The Notion of \'Implication\' According to al-Rummānī / B. Gruendler and M. Cooperson
  • Tahādī Gifts, Debts, and Counter-Gifts in the Ancient Zoroastrian Ritual / Prods Oktor Skjærvø
  • Tamannī If Wishes Were...: Notes on Wishing in Islamic Texts / Aron Zysow
  • Zarafā Encounters with the Giraffe, from Paris to the Medieval Islamic World / Remke Kruk
  • Index / B. Gruendler and M. Cooperson.