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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ARABIC LITERATURE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ARABIC LITERATURE Volume 1 Edited by Julie Scott Meisami and Paul Starkey London and New York First published 1998 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 © 1998 Routledge Typeset in Times and Helvetica by Mathematical Composition Setters Ltd, Salisbury, UK Printed and bound in Great Britain by TJ International Ltd, Padstow, Cornwall All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this book is available on request ISBN 0-415-18571-8 (vol. 1) ISBN 0-415-18572-6 (vol. 2) ISBN 0-415-06808-8 (set) Contents List of contributors vi Introduction x List of abbreviations xiii English transliteration system xvii Volume 1: entries A-J 1-420 Volume 2: entries K-Z 421-829 Glossary 830 Chronological tables 835 Index 842 Contributors Kamal Abu-Deeb William M. Brinner School of Oriental and University of California, Berkeley African Studies, London Pierre Cachia Farida Abu-Haidar Columbia University London Giovanni Canova University of Venice Roger Allen University of Pennsylvania M.G. Carter University of Oslo Lourdes Alvarez Bard College, New York Peter Clark British Council, London Mona T. Amyuni American University of Beirut Lawrence I. Conrad Wellcome Institute, London Ali Asani Harvard University Miriam Cooke Duke University, North Carolina Aziz al-Azmeh Institute of Advanced Study, Berlin John Cooper University of Cambridge Thomas Bauer Michael Cooperson University of Erlangen, Germany University of California, Los Angeles Constance E. Berkley Francesca Maria Corrao Vassar College, New York Oriental Institute, University ofN aples Marcel Bois Jack A. Crabbs, Jr Algeria California State University, Fullerton Marilyn Booth Elton L. Daniel University of Illinois University of Hawaii Gert Borg Francois de Blois University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands Royal Asiatic Society, London C.E. Bosworth Ed C.M. de Moor University of Manchester University ofNijmegen, The Netherlands Issa J. Boullata Jean Dejeux McGill University * Contributors Rina Drory Philip F. Kennedy Tel Aviv University New York University Peter G. Emery Hilary Kilpatrick Sultan Qaboos University, Oman Lausanne Gerhard Endress R.A. Kimber Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany University of St Andrews Alexander Knysh Jean Fontaine Tunisia University of Exeter Bassam K. Frangieh Hermann Landolt Yale University McGill University A. Giese Oliver Leaman Arlington, Massachusetts Liverpool John Moores University Lois A. Giffen Stefan Leder University of Utah Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany Michael Glunz Switzerland James E. Lindsay Colorado State University Walid Hamarneh Ulrich Marzolph University of Texas at Austin Enzyklopiidie des Miirchens, G6ttingen Parveen Hasanali J.S. Meisami St Thomas University, Canada University of Oxford Wolfhart P. Heinrichs M. Mikhail Harvard University New York University C. Hillenbrand James E. Montgomery University of Edinburgh University of Cambridge R. Hillenbrand Shmuel Moreh University of Edinburgh Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan Hassan Hilmy R.L. Nettler Hassan II University, Casablanca Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies John O. Hunwick Ian R. Netton Northwestern University University of Leeds R. Husni C. Nijland University of Durham Netherlands Institute for the Near East Robert Irwin M.R. Nourallah School of Oriental and African Studies, London University of Westminster Renate Jacobi Robin C. Ostle Freie Universitiit, Berlin University of Oxford vii Contributors Nick Pelham M.I. Shoush BBC World Service University of Edmonton Carl Petry P.J. Sluglett Northwestern University University of Utah D. Pinault Pieter Smoor Santa Clara University, California Institute for Modem Near Eastern Studies, University ofA msterdam Wadad al-Qac;li University of Chicago Reuven Snir University of Haifa B. Radtke Rijksuniversiteit of Utrecht F. Sobieroj Friedrich-Schiller-Universitiit, lena D.M. Reid Georgia State University Sasson Somekh Tel Aviv University D.S. Richards University of Oxford Abdul-Nabi Staif University of Damascus Lutz Richter-Bernburg Leipzig University Paul Starkey University of Durham A. Rippin University of Calgary Willem Stoetzer University of Leiden Geoffrey Roper Yasir Suleiman Cambridge University Library University of Edinburgh Everett K. Rowson Shawkat M. Toorawa University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia RRAALL, University of Mauritius J.Sadan Ahmad Ubaydli Tel Aviv University CMES, University of Cambridge Philip C. Sadgrove Geert Jan H. van Gelder University of Manchester University of Groningen Raymond P. Scheindlin Wiebke Walther lewish Theological Seminary ofA merica, Eberhard Karls University, Tiibingen New York David J. Wasserstein Gregor Schoeler Tel Aviv University Orientalisches Seminar, University of Basel Otfried Weintritt Tilman Seidensticker Albert Ludwigs University, Freiburg im Friedrich Schiller University, lena Breisgau David Semah Bernard Weiss * University of Utah John L. Sharpe Owen Wright William R. Perkins Library, Duke University, School of Oriental and North Carolina African Studies, London viii Contributors MichaeIJ.L. Young K. Zebiri * School of Oriental and African Studies, London M. Zakeri Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Germany * The contributor is now deceased ix

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The Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature is an authoritative reference source on the most important authors, works, genres, key terms, concepts and issues in the Arabic literary tradition. The Encyclopedia covers the classical (pre-Islamic to 1258), transitional (1258-1798) and modern periods within a
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