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Classical Arabic Humanities in Their Own Terms: Festschrift for Wolfhart Heinrichs on His 65th Birthday Presented by His Students and Colleagues Hardcover - 2008

by Beatrice Gruendler (Editor); Michael Cooperson (Editor)


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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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The volume brings together approaches to different elements of Arabic-Islamic civilization, mainly in the areas of linguistics, literature, literary theory, and prosody, but also including religion, ritual, economics, and zoology. Contributions also touch upon the adjacent areas of the Old Iranian, Persian, Greek and Byzantine written traditions. Some take as their points of departure specific Arabic words (cat, giraffe) or morphemes; others explore literary genres, subgenres (oration, ode, macaronic poem, travel narrative) or figures within them (the trickster, the devil). Cultural concepts such as wishing, gift-giving or discourse are treated, as are aspects of broader phenomena, such as the role of gender in dream interpretation or the relative merits of luxury goods and mass-produced commodities.

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  • Title Classical Arabic Humanities in Their Own Terms: Festschrift for Wolfhart Heinrichs on His 65th Birthday Presented by His Students and Colleagues
  • Author Beatrice Gruendler (Editor); Michael Cooperson (Editor)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Bilingual
  • Pages 612
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Brill
  • Date 2008-03
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9789004165731 / 9004165738
  • Weight 2.45 lbs (1.11 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.7 x 6 x 1.5 in (24.64 x 15.24 x 3.81 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008000094
  • Dewey Decimal Code 492.7

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Citations

  • Reference and Research Bk News, 05/01/2008, Page 306

About the author

Beatrice Gruendler, Ph.D. (1995) in Arabic Literature, Harvard University, is Professor of Arabic at Yale University. She has published on Arabic script and the social context of Arabic poetry, including The Development of the Arabic Scripts (Scholars Press 1993) and Medieval Arabic Praise Poetry (Routledge Curzon 2003).
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