Luc Deheuvels is Professor at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO), Paris, France. Professor Barbara Michalak-Pikulska is Head of the Arab Studies Department at Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland. Professor Paul Starkey is Head of the Arabic Department, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Durham University, and Co-Director of the Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World

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• Preface and acknowledgements1. Intertextuality in modern Arabic literature since 1967 – Roger Allen2. The narrative of the ship: al-Mu’aqqit, Mahfuz, and Jabra – Richard van Leeuwen3. D’arbes et de lunes: parcours intertextuel dans la littérature arabe contemporaine –Luc-Willy Deheuvels4. Intertextuality gone awry? The mysterious (dis)appearance of ‘tradition’ in the Arabic novel – Wen-Chin Ouyang5. Appropriating, or secretly undermining, the secular literary heritage? Distant echoes of Mawsim al-Hijra in a Muslim writer’s novel: Leila Aboulela, The translator – Stephan Guth6. Intertexte et mémoire dans l’écriture Romanesque de Rabi Jabir: essai sur le roman Ralph Rizqallah fi ‘l-mir’at – Sobhi Boustani7. Transformations of the Thousand and One Nights: Zakariyya Tamir’s ‘Shahriyar wa-Shahrazad’ and Muhammad Jibril’s Zahrat al-Sabah – Ulrike Stehli-Werbeck8. Intertextual and intratextual processes in al-Malik huwa al’malik by Sacd Allah Wannus – Rosella Dorigo9. From intertext to mixed media: the case of Edwar al-Kharrat – Robin C. Ostle10. Intertextuality and the Arabic literary tradition in Edwar al-Kharrat’s Stones of Bobello – Paul Starkey11. The past in the present: aspects of intertextuality in modern literature in the Gulf ¬– Gail Ramsay12. The mosaic of quotations and the labyrinth of interpretations: the problem of intertextuality in the modern literature of the Gulf – Barbara Michelak-PikulskaSelect bibliographyIndex