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Editorial preface | |
Map: the Middle East | |
The 'Abbasid caliphate: a historical | |
Introduction | |
Adab and the concept of belles-lettres | |
Shu'ubiyyah in Arabic literature | |
Ibn Al-Muqaffa' and early 'Abbasid prose | |
Al-Jahiz C. Pellat | |
Al-Sahib Ibn 'Abbad | |
Abu Hayyah al-Tawhidi | |
Al-Hamadhani, al-Hariri and the maqamat genre | |
Fables and legends | |
'Abbasid poetry and its antecedents | |
Hunting poetry (tardiyyat) | |
Political poetry | |
Love poetry (ghazal) | |
Wine poetry (khamriyyat) | |
Mystical poetry | |
Ascetic poetry (zuhdiyyat) | |
Bashshar b. Burd, Abu l-Atahiyah and Abu | |
Al-Mutanabbi | |
Abu Firas al-Hamdani | |
Abu l- Ala al-Ma'arri 'A'Isha 'Abd | |
Literary criticism | |
Ibn al-Mu'tazz and Kitab al-Badi' | |
Regional literature: Egypt | |
Regional literature: the Yemen | |
Bibliographies | |
Index | |
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