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9781512828870

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""""This ambitious and thought-provoking book offers a bold reimagining of world literature, rejecting static, map-driven frameworks in favor of a historically grounded exploration of reading itself. Through an innovative comparative approach, it follows al-Ḥarīrī's journey across interpretive traditions to grapple with the enduring question: What is literature? This rich engagement with commentary cultures connects world literature to its readers and charts a vision for the future of literary study."" - Michael Allan, author of In the Shadow of World Literature ""One of the most exciting and impressive works to come out in the field of classical Arabic literature in recent decades. This groundbreaking book takes seriously hitherto ignored commentaries and manuscripts of al-Ḥarīrī's Maqāmāt, radically changing our understanding of the genre."" - Lara Harb, Princeton University

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Matthew L. Keegan is the Moinian Assistant Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures at Barnard College of Columbia University.

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