Writing and representation in medieval Islam : Muslim horizons /
Writing and representation in medieval Islam : Muslim horizons /
edited by Julia Bray
- London : Routledge, 2006
- 266 p. ; 25 cm.
List of contributors -- Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- Note on conventions -- Fact and fiction -- Robert Irwin: Ibn Zunbul and the romance of history -- Robert G. Hoyland: history, fiction and authorship in the first centuries of Islam -- Julie Scott Meisami: Writing medieval women : representations and misrepresentations -- Appearance and truth -- James E. Montgomery: al-Jāḥiẓ's Kitāb al-bayān wa al-tabyīn -- Philip F. Kennedy: The maqāmāt as a nexus of interests: reflections on Abdelfattah Kilito's Les séances -- Julia Bray: the physical world and the writer's eye : al-Tanūkhī and medicine -- Notes -- Bibliographies -- Index.
0415385687 (hardback) RM427.05
Arabic literature--History and criticism--750-1258
Arabic literature--History and criticism--1258-1800
List of contributors -- Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- Note on conventions -- Fact and fiction -- Robert Irwin: Ibn Zunbul and the romance of history -- Robert G. Hoyland: history, fiction and authorship in the first centuries of Islam -- Julie Scott Meisami: Writing medieval women : representations and misrepresentations -- Appearance and truth -- James E. Montgomery: al-Jāḥiẓ's Kitāb al-bayān wa al-tabyīn -- Philip F. Kennedy: The maqāmāt as a nexus of interests: reflections on Abdelfattah Kilito's Les séances -- Julia Bray: the physical world and the writer's eye : al-Tanūkhī and medicine -- Notes -- Bibliographies -- Index.
0415385687 (hardback) RM427.05
Arabic literature--History and criticism--750-1258
Arabic literature--History and criticism--1258-1800