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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

Contents

• • Preliminary Materials (i-xxxvi)   (187K)
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    • Contents
    • Acknowledgements
    • Preface
    • Tabula Gratulatoria
    • Bibliography
  • -āt Drink Your Milks! āt as Individuation Marker in Levantine Arabic (1-19) by Kristen Brustad   (128K)
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    • Bibliography
  • 'Ayyār The Companion, Spy, Scoundrel in Premodern Arabic Popular Narratives (20-39) by Peter Heath   (124K)
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    • I. Ruler, Hero, 'Ayyār
    • II. The Independent 'Ayyār
    • III. 'Ayyār as Friend and Foe
    • IV. Women Of Wiles: The Female Trickster
    • V. Conclusion
    • Bibliography
  • Balāgha Rhetorique aristotelicienne (rethorica) et faculte oratoire (oratoria/balāgha) selon les Didascalia in "Rethoricam (sic!)" Aristotelis ex glosa Alpharabii (40-61) by Maroun Aouad   (158K)
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    • I. Distinction Par Les Parties Du Discours
    • II. Distinction Par Les Opérations Et Raisons Profondes De La Distinction.
    • III. La Rhétorique Complète, La Rhétorique Incomplète Ou Nécessaire, La Rhétorique Défectueuse
    • IV. Le Substrat Ar
  • Bi- Some Morphological Functions Of Arabic Bi-: On The Uses Of Galex, II (62-67) by Dimitri Gutas   (88K)
  • Hazaj Genese Eines Neupersischen Metrums (68-98) by Benedikt Reinert   (189K)
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    • I. Präambel
    • II. Die Verlockung Des Reims
    • III. Das Schwarze Schaf Im Stall Khalðls
    • IV. Das Erlebnis Der Überlänge
    • V. Das Phantom Des Metrischen Formenreichtums
    • VI. Die Symbiose Von Metrum Und Reim
  • Iblīs Iblīs and the Jinn in al-Futūhāt al-Makkiyya (99-126) by William C. Chittick   (172K)
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    • I. Spirits And Angels
    • II. The Jinn
    • III. Shape Shifting
    • IV. Suggestions Of Angel And Satan (Satan’S Cosmological Dimension)
    • V. Iblis
    • VI. Waḥdat al-Wujūd Revisited
  • Īqā' Musikalische Metrik bei al-Fārābī (gest. 950) und ihr Ebenbild bei Thoinot Arbeau (gest. 1595) (127-147) by Eckhard Neubauer   (148K)
  • Iqtiṣād La Confrontation Est-Ouest en Mediterranee aux VIIe/XIIe et Viiie/Xiiie siecles (148-164) by Thierry Bianquis   (117K)
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    • I. Axiome Initial: Divergence Accrue Entre Deux Sociétés
    • II. Origines De Cette Divergence
    • III. Homme Et Nature
    • IV. Sources De Revenu Et Financement Public
    • V. Aléas Du Système Agricole
    • VI. Sorties De Crise En Occident Et En Orient
    • VII. Deux Rythmes: Désordre Maîtrisé En Orient
    • VIII. Deux Rythmes: Ordre Rationnel En Occident
    • IX. Vers Un Monde Régulé, Porteur De Projets D’Avenir
    • X. En Orient, Gestion Des Possibles Et Adaptation Aux Contraintes
    • XI. Porosité Des Frontières: La Corruption, Outil De Domination
    • XII. Faible Perception Immédiate Du Phénomène
    • XIII. Conclusion Rapide
  • Khiṭāb "Discourse" in the Jurisprudential Theory of Ibn 'Aqīl Al-Ḥanbalī (165-175) by A. Kevin Reinhart   (98K)
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    • I. Introduction
    • II. Apprehending the Khiṭāb
    • III. The Quality Of Discourse
    • IV. Indirect Discourse
    • V. Conclusion
    • Bibliography
  • Khuṭba The Evolution of Early Arabic Oration (176-273) by Tahera Qutbuddin   (556K)
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    • I. Denotations of the Terms Khuṭba and khaṭāba
    • II. Sources
    • III. Authenticity
    • IV. Types: Political; Soothsayer’S Utterance; Religious (Pious Counsel); Civic (Marriage); Religio-Political (Including Legislative And Ritual)
    • V. Characteristics: Structure, Setting, And Style
    • VI. Conclusion
    • VII. Appendix Some Famous Early Khuṭba
    • Bibliography
  • Libās Die entliehenen Kleider des Abū Nuwās (274-290) by Ewald Wagner   (121K)
  • Mulamma' In Islamic Literatures (291-324) by Nargis Virani   (200K)
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    • I. Problems of the Mulammaʿ’s Definition and Its Discussion in Literary Sources
    • II. Is Mulammaʿ Translatable as “Macaronic”?
    • III. The Purity Of The Arabic Language
    • IV. The Arabic Language and the Muslim Dogma of the Qur'ān as God’s Word
    • V. Rhetorical Devices That Lend Themselvesto Multilingual Compositions
    • Bibliography
  • Qaṣīda Its Reconstruction In Performance (325-389) by Beatrice Gruendler   (345K)
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    • I. The Audience’S Interaction With Odes
    • II. The Poet’S Cuts And Additions
    • III. Later Editing of Qaṣīdas in Literary Debates
    • IV. Staging Qaṣīdas in Akhbār
    • V. The Performance Of The Compiler
    • VI. Conclusion
    • Appendix A “A Lesson In Patronage” (Translation)
    • Appendix B. Synopsis Of Versions
    • Bibliography
  • Qaṣīda Ghazaliyya–Khamriyya: Two Lyrical Poems by Ḥāzim al-Qarṭājannī (d. 684/1285) (390-406) by Geert Jan van Gelder   (161K)
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  • Qiṭṭa Arabic Cats (407-418) by John Huehnergard   (122K)
  • Safar The Early History of Time Travel Literature: Al-Muwayliḥī's Ḥadith 'Isa B. Hishām and Its Antecedents (419-446) by Michael Cooperson   (167K)
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    • I. Introduction
    • II. The First Time Traveler: Louis-Sébastien Mercier
    • III. Time-Traveling Ghosts: Genius And Lumen
    • IV. A Spectral Traveler: al-ṭahṭāwī
    • V. Stumbling Into The Future: Robida And De Tocqueville
    • VI. The Doubled Self: al-Muwayliḥī and al-ṭahṭāwī
    • Bibliography
  • Ta'bīr al-ruyā and aḥkām al-nujūm References to Women in Dream Interpretation and Astrology Transferred from Graeco-Roman Antiquity and Medieval Islam to Byzantium: Some Problems and Considerations (447-467) by Maria Mavroudi   (144K)
  • Taḍmīn The Notion of "Implication" According to al-Rummānī (468-492)   (170K)
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    • I. Extant Manuscript Fragments of al-Rummnāī’s Tafsīr
    • II. Features of the Content of al-Rummnāī’s Tafsīr
    • Bibliography
  • Tahādī Gifts, Debts, and Counter-Gifts in the Ancient Zoroastrian Ritual (493-520) by Prods Oktor Skjærvø   (179K)
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    • I. The Avestan Ritual
    • II. Debts And Payments
    • III. The Ultimate Gifts
    • IV. The Exchange Value of Ahura Mazdā’s Counter-gift
  • Tamannī If Wishes Were...: Notes on Wishing in Islamic Texts (521-567) by Aron Zysow   (281K)
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    • I. Introduction
    • II. Wishing As A Speech Act
    • III. Wishing In Islamic Theology
    • IV. Wishing in the Exegesis of the Qur'ān
    • V. Wishing In Islamic Law
    • VI. Theological And Moral Opposition To Wishing
    • VII. Wishing In Modern Writers
    • VIII. Summary
  • Zarafā Encounters with the Giraffe, from Paris to the Medieval Islamic World (568-592) by Remke Kruk   (165K)
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    • I. Introduction
    • I. A Choice Gift For Rulers
    • II. Looks And Origin
    • Bibliography
  • Index (593-612)   (143K)