TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bray,Julia
TI  - Writing and representation in medieval Islam: Muslim horizons 
SN  - 0415385687 (hardback)
PY  - 2006///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Arabic literature
KW  - 750-1258
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 1258-1800
N1  - 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0517/2005023539.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0654/2005023539-d.html
ER  -