Wolfhart Heinrichs´ Essays and Articles on Arabic Literature: General Issues, Terms

Author:   Hinrich Biesterfeldt ,  Alma Giese
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781032046389


Pages:   390
Publication Date:   30 May 2024
Format:   Hardback
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Wolfhart Heinrichs’ Essays and Articles on Arabic Literature: General Issues, Terms is the first of two volumes that showcase a great number of Heinrichsʼ writings on his central field of research: Arabic literature. This volume specifically looks at poetry and rhetoric, and their indigenous theories and terminologies. Wolfhart Heinrichs (1941-2014) was James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic at Harvard University. He is remembered as a significant adviser to Fuat Sezginʼs fundamental Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums; as an editor of and contributor to the Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second edition; and, most importantly, as an author of many independent studies on Arabic literature, many which were groundbreaking in the history of Arabic philology. He is also known for his studies on Semitic linguistics and Islamic jurisprudence. This volume collects relevant bibliographical data, offers an introductory essay on the author by his distinguished student Michael Cooperson (UCLA), and provides a selection of Wolfhart Heinrichs’ essays. The articles in this volume deal with general issues in the field that are central to pre-modern Arab and Islamic culture, and their concepts and terminologies. An index of classical authors, book titles, and technical terms concludes the volume. This volume and the accompanying volume will appeal to students and researchers in the field of Arabic and Islamic Studies, and particularly to those interested in Arabic literature.

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Author:   Hinrich Biesterfeldt ,  Alma Giese
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781032046389


ISBN 10:   1032046384
Pages:   390
Publication Date:   30 May 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Frontispiece (A Portrait of the Scholar as a Young Man) Foreword by Michael Cooperson Introductory Editorial Remarks General issues Literaturtheorie Einführung Philology The Classification of the Sciences and the Consolidation of Philology in Classical Islam Literary Theory: The Problem of its Efficacy Poetik, Rhetorik, Literaturkritik, Metrik und Reimlehre Rhetorical Figures Klassisch-arabische Theorien dichterischer Rede Prosimetrical Genres in Classical Arabic Literature Die altarabische Qaṣīde als Dichtkunst Authority in Arabic Poetry “Manierismus” in der Arabischen Literatur Obscurity in Classical Arabic Poetry Modes of Existence of the Poetry in the Arabian Nights Early Ornate Prose and the Rhetorization of Poetry in Arabic Literature Naḳd Terms Istiʿārah and Badīʿ and their Terminological Relationship in Early Arabic Literary Criticism Paired Metaphors in Muḥdath Poetry On the Genesis of the Haqîqa-Majâz Dichotomy “Takhyīl” and its Traditions Rose Versus Narcissus. Observations on an Arabic Literary Debate Notes on the Index Index of Classical Authors, Selected Book Titles, and Key Terms

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"""Like dear members of a dispersed tribe gathered again; like precious stray camels rounded up; like scattered lustrous pearls strung at last: here, in this treasure trove, are brought together many matchless studies, the opera minora of a major scholar, Wolfhart Heinrichs, whose learning is as deep as it is wide, ranging from Arabic poetics, poetry, and poets to Muslim jurisprudence and Semitic linguistics."" Geert Jan, retired Laudian Professor of Arabic, Oxford University."


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Hinrich Biesterfeldt is a retired Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. He received his PhD in 1970 in Göttingen. He is the author of books and articles on Arabic literature and the history of the sciences in Islam. Together with Sebastian Günther, he is the editor of the series Islamic History and Civilization. Alma Giese is an Arabist who received her PhD in 1980 in Giessen, Germany; a translator of numerous works from classical Arabic literature into German; and the widow of Wolfhart Heinrichs.

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