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| 001 | 865 |
| 911 | Book |
| 245 | -0$a On fiction and adab in medieval Arabic literature / $c edited by Philip F. Kennedy. |
| 700 | $a Kennedy, Philip F. |
| 260 | $a Wiesbaden : $b Harrassowitz Verlag, $c 2005. |
| 300 | $a xxii, 326 p. |
| 041 | $a English |
| 020 | $a 3447051825 |
| 500 | $a Includes index.$a Proceedings from a workshop in medieval Arabic literature , April 21-22, 2000. |
| 504 | $a Bibliography: p. [305]-308 |
| 505 | $a 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. |
| 600 | $a Ibn 'Abd Rabbih, $d 860-940 $a Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur, Ahmad, $d 819 or 20-893 |
| 650 | $a Belles-lettres $a Biography, Ancient $a Autobiography, Ancient $a Fiction -- $x Tales $a Poetry, Narrative |
| 440 | $v 6 |
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