ABSTRACT
Covers a range of literary and linguistic subjects from pre-Islamic times to the twentieth century.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|152 pages
Poetry
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chapter 3|22 pages
Tradition and Modernity in Arabic Poetry
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The Constant Challenge, the Perennial Assertion
chapter 9|25 pages
ʿAbbāsid Panegyric
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The Politics and Poetics of Ceremony Al-Mutanabbī's ʿĪd-poem to Sayf al-Dawlah
part 2|104 pages
Prose and Drama
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chapter 11|10 pages
Arabic Influences in the Literature of Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Britain
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chapter 13|24 pages
The Organizational Principles in Ibn Sallām's Ṭabaqāt Fuḥūl al-Shuʿarāʾ
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A Reconsideration
part 3|95 pages
Language
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chapter 21|11 pages
Some sociolinguistic concepts of style and stylistic variation in spoken Arabic
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With reference to Nagīb Maḥfuẓ talking about his life
chapter 22|25 pages
The Language of Ibn al-Mujāwir's 7th/13th Century Guide to Arabia, Tārīkh al-Mustabṣir 1
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