ABSTRACT

Covers a range of literary and linguistic subjects from pre-Islamic times to the twentieth century.

part 1|152 pages

Poetry

chapter 2|8 pages

Tradition as a Factor of Arabic Modernism

Darwīsh's Application of a Mask

chapter 3|22 pages

Tradition and Modernity in Arabic Poetry

The Constant Challenge, the Perennial Assertion

chapter 5|14 pages

Changing Technique in Modern Arabic Poetry

A Reflection of Changing Values?

chapter 8|17 pages

The Hunt in the Arabic Qasīdah

The Antecedents of the Ṭardiyyah

chapter 9|25 pages

ʿAbbāsid Panegyric

The Politics and Poetics of Ceremony Al-Mutanabbī's ʿĪd-poem to Sayf al-Dawlah

part 3|95 pages

Language

chapter 18|20 pages

Mysticism in Arabic Writing

chapter 19|9 pages

Rescuing Arabic Rhetoric from Neglect

A Text-linguistic Approach

chapter 20|12 pages

The Dispute of Coffee and Tea

A Debate-poem from The Gulf

chapter 21|11 pages

Some sociolinguistic concepts of style and stylistic variation in spoken Arabic

With reference to Nagīb Maḥfuẓ talking about his life