Arabic Belles Lettres brings together ten studies that shed light on important questions in the study of Arabic language, literature, literary history, and writerly culture. The volume is divided into three sections. Early Narratives comprises: Joseph Lowry on the Qur an's allusive legal language; Abed el-Rahman Tayyara on matrilineal lineages in the context of Badr and Uh d; Ruqayya Khan on the ramifications of public courtship in Udhr romances; and Philip Kennedy on fir sah (reading for signs and traces) in medieval ...
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Arabic Belles Lettres brings together ten studies that shed light on important questions in the study of Arabic language, literature, literary history, and writerly culture. The volume is divided into three sections. Early Narratives comprises: Joseph Lowry on the Qur an's allusive legal language; Abed el-Rahman Tayyara on matrilineal lineages in the context of Badr and Uh d; Ruqayya Khan on the ramifications of public courtship in Udhr romances; and Philip Kennedy on fir sah (reading for signs and traces) in medieval narrative. Medieval Authors comprises: Shawkat Toorawa on Ubaydall h ibn A mad ibn Ab hir's History of Baghd d; Maurice Pomerantz and Bilal Orfali on Ibn F ris and the origins of the maq mah genre; Everett Rowson on al-Taw d and his predecessors (a reprint of his 1996 ZDMG article); and Ghayde Ghraowi on al-Khaf j and his Ray nat al-alibb . Modern Egypt comprises: Roger Allen on a cultural controversy in the Cairo newspapers of 1902; and Devin Stewart on preposterous boasting and ingenuity in on modern Egyptian Arabic.
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