| Classical Arabic Humanities in Their Own Terms: Festschrift for Wolfhart Heinrichs on His 65th Birthday Presented by His Students and Colleagues Contributor(s): Gruendler, Beatrice (Editor), Cooperson, Michael (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9004165738 ISBN-13: 9789004165731 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $261.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2007 Annotation: Approaches to elements of Arabic-Islamic civilization, including linguistics, literature, literary theory, religion, ritual, economics and zoology, as well as related topics in the Old Iranian, Persian, Greek and Byzantine traditions, through the discussion of select terms, concepts and phenomena. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Middle Eastern - Foreign Language Study | Arabic - Reference |
| Dewey: 492.7 |
| LCCN: 2008000094 |
| Physical Information: 1.5" H x 6" W x 9.7" (2.45 lbs) 612 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The volume brings together approaches to different elements of Arabic-Islamic civilization, mainly in the areas of linguistics, literature, literary theory, and prosody, but also including religion, ritual, economics, and zoology. Contributions also touch upon the adjacent areas of the Old Iranian, Persian, Greek and Byzantine written traditions. Some take as their points of departure specific Arabic words (cat, giraffe) or morphemes; others explore literary genres, subgenres (oration, ode, macaronic poem, travel narrative) or figures within them (the trickster, the devil). Cultural concepts such as wishing, gift-giving or discourse are treated, as are aspects of broader phenomena, such as the role of gender in dream interpretation or the relative merits of luxury goods and mass-produced commodities. |