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| Document Type: | Book |
| Title: | On fiction and adab in medieval Arabic literature /edited by Philip F. Kennedy. |
| Added Author: | Kennedy, Philip F. |
| Publisher: | Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005. |
| Pages: | xxii, 326 p. |
| Language: | English |
| ISBN: | 3447051825 |
| Notes: | Includes index.Proceedings from a workshop in medieval Arabic literature , April 21-22, 2000. |
| Bibliographic Note: | Bibliography: p. [305]-308 |
| Contents: | Abbasid myth and the Human Act: Ibn 'Abd Rabbih and others / Julia Bray -- Min Jumlat al-Jamadat. The inanimate in fictional and adab narrative / Daniel Beaumont -- Probability, plausibility, and spiritual communication in classical Arabic biography / Michael Cooperson -- Verse and taxes: the function of poetry in selected literary Akhbar of the third/Ninth century / Beatrice Gruendler -- The use of composite form in the making of the Islamic historical tradition / Stefan Leder -- Mas'udi and the reign of al-Amin: narrative and meaning in medieval Muslim historiography / Julie S. Meisami -- Serendipity, resistance, and multivalency: Ibn Khurradadhbih and his Kitab al-Masalik wa-l-Mamalik / James E. Montgomery -- al-Harith ibn Zalim and the trope of Baghy in the Ayyam al-'Arab / Walter Oller -- Symbolic narratives of self: dreams in medieval Arabic autobiographies / Dwight F. Reynolds -- Defining Adab by (Re)defining the Adib: Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur and story telling / Shawkat Toorawa. |
| Author as Subject: | Ibn 'Abd Rabbih, 860-940Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur, Ahmad, 819 or 20-893 |
| Descriptors: | Belles-lettres Biography, Ancient Autobiography, Ancient Fiction -- Tales Poetry, Narrative |
| Series: | 6 |
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