ABSTRACT
Covers a range of literary and linguistic subjects from pre-Islamic times to the twentieth century.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|152 pages
Poetry
chapter 3|22 pages
Tradition and Modernity in Arabic Poetry
The Constant Challenge, the Perennial Assertion
chapter 9|25 pages
ʿAbbāsid Panegyric
The Politics and Poetics of Ceremony Al-Mutanabbī's ʿĪd-poem to Sayf al-Dawlah
part 2|104 pages
Prose and Drama
chapter 13|24 pages
The Organizational Principles in Ibn Sallām's Ṭabaqāt Fuḥūl al-Shuʿarāʾ
A Reconsideration
part 3|95 pages
Language
chapter 21|11 pages
Some sociolinguistic concepts of style and stylistic variation in spoken Arabic
With reference to Nagīb Maḥfuẓ talking about his life