Classical Arabic Humanities in Their Own Terms

by Gruendler, Beatrice; Cooperson, Michael (CON)

• ISBN13: 9789004165731
• ISBN10: 9004165738
• Edition: Bilingual
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-03-30
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

Summary

Approaches to elements of Arabic-Islamic civilization, including linguistics, literature, literary theory, religion, ritual, economics and zoology, as well as related topics in the Old Iranian, Persian, Greek and Byzantine traditions, through the discussion of select terms, concepts and phenomena.

Table of Contents

Tabula Gratulatoria
Bibliography
-at
Drink Your Milks! at as Individuation Marker in Levantine Arabic	p. 1
'Ayyar
The Companion, Spy, Scoundrel in Premodern Arabic Popular Narratives	p. 20
Balagha
Rhetorique aristotelicienne (rethorica) et faculte oratoire (oratoria/balagha) selon les Didascalia in "Rethoricam (sic!)" Aristotelis ex glosa Alpharabii	p. 40
bi-
Some Morphological Functions of Arabic bi-: On the Uses of Galex, II	p. 62
Hazaj
Genese eines neupersischen Metrums	p. 68
Iblis
Iblis and the Jinn in al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya	p. 99
Iqa
Musikalische Metrik bei al-Farabi (gest. 950) und ihr Ebenbild bei Thoinot Arbeau (gest. 1595)	p. 127
Iqtisad
La Confrontation Est-Ouest en Mediterranee aux VII[superscript e]/XII[superscript e] et Viii[superscript e]/Xiii[superscript e] siecles	p. 148
Khitab
"Discourse" in the Jurisprudential Theory of Ibn 'Aqil Al-Hanbali	p. 165
Khutba
The Evolution of Early Arabic Oration	p. 176
Libas
Die entliehenen Kleider des Abu Nuwas	p. 274
Mulamma
in Islamic Literatures	p. 291
Qasida
Its Reconstruction In Performance	p. 325
Qasida Ghazaliyya-Khamriyya: Two Lyrical Poems by Hazim al-Qartajanni (d. 684/1285)	p. 390
Qitta
Arabic Cats	p. 407
Safar
The Early History of Time Travel Literature: Al-Muwaylihi's Hadith 'Isa B. Hisham and Its Antecedents	p. 419
Ta'bir al-ru'ya and ahkam al-nujum
References to Women in Dream Interpretation and Astrology Transferred from Graeco-Roman Antiquity and Medieval Islam to Byzantium: Some Problems and Considerations	p. 447
Tadmin
The Notion of "Implication" According to al-Rummani	p. 468
Tahadi
Gifts, Debts, and Counter-Gifts in the Ancient Zoroastrian Ritual	p. 493
Tamanni
If Wishes Were... : Notes on Wishing in Islamic Texts	p. 521
Zarafa
Encounters with the Giraffe, from Paris to the Medieval Islamic World	p. 568
Index	p. 593
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