Classical Arabic humanities in their own terms : festschrift for Wolfhart Heinrichs on his 65th birthday / presented by his students and colleagues ; edited by Beatrice Gruendler ; with the assistance of Michael Cooperson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Tabula gratulatoria -- At drink your milks! -at as individuation marker in Levantine Arabic / Kristen Brustad -- Yayyar the companion, spy, scoundrel in premodern Arabic popular narratives / Peter Heath -- Balagha rhetorique aristotelicienne (rethorica) et faculte oratoire (oratoria/balagha) selon les didascalia in "rethoricam (sic!)" Aristotelis ex glosa Alpharabii / Maroun Aouad -- Some morphological functions of Arabic bi- : on the uses of galex / Dimitri Gutas -- Hazaj: genese eines neupersischen metrums / Benedikt Reinert -- Iblis and the jinn in al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya / William C. Chittick -- Iqay: musikalische Metrik bei al-Farabi (gest. 950) und ihr Ebenbild bei Thoinot Arbeau (gest. 1595) / Eckhard Neubauer -- Iqtinad: la confrontation est-ouest en mediterranee aux viie/xiie et viiie/xiiie siecles / Thierry Bianquis -- Khiyab: "discourse" in the jurisprudential theory of Ibn Aqil al-Hanbali / A. Kevin Reinhart -- Khutba: the evolution of early Arabic oration / Tahera Qutbuddin -- Libas: die entliehenen Kleider des Abu Nuwas / Ewald Wagner -- Mulamma in Islamic literatures / Nargis Virani -- Qanida: its reconstruction in performance / Beatrice Gruendler -- Qanida ghazaliyya-khamriyya : two lyrical poems by Hazim al-Qaratajanni (d. 684/1285) / Geert Jan van Gelder -- Qia: Arabic cats / John Huehnergard -- Safar: the early history of time travel literature : al-Muwayli's Hadith lsa b. Hisham and its antecedents / Michael Cooperson -- Taybar al-ru'ya and Alkam al-nujum: references to women in dream interpretation and astrology transferred from Graeco-Roman antiquity and medieval Islam to Byzantium : some problems and considerations / Maria Mavroudi -- Taman: the notion of "Implication" according to al-Rummani / Bruce Fudge -- Tahaddi: gifts, debts, and counter-gifts in the ancient Zoroastrian ritual / Prods Oktor Skjarvo -- Tamanni: If wishes were ... : notes on wishing in Islamic texts / Aron Zysow -- Zarafa: encounters with the giraffe, from Paris to the medieval Islamic world / Remke Kruk.

Essays in English, French, German, some Arabic.

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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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