Wolfhart Heinrichs´ Essays and Articles on Arabic Literature

Hinrich Biesterfeldt is a retired Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. He received his PhD in 1970 in Göttingen. He is the author of books and articles on Arabic literature and the history of the sciences in Islam. Together with Sebastian Günther, he is the editor of the series Islamic History and Civilization.Alma Giese is an Arabist who received her PhD in 1980 in Giessen, Germany; a translator of numerous works from classical Arabic literature into German; and the widow of Wolfhart Heinrichs.

"Like dear members of a dispersed tribe gathered again; like precious stray camels rounded up; like scattered lustrous pearls strung at last: here, in this treasure trove, are brought together many matchless studies, the opera minora of a major scholar, Wolfhart Heinrichs, whose learning is as deep as it is wide, ranging from Arabic poetics, poetry, and poets to Muslim jurisprudence and Semitic linguistics."Geert Jan, retired Laudian Professor of Arabic, Oxford University."With these seminal and incisive articles, Wolfhart Heinrichs played a major role in the late twentieth century renaissance in the study of classical Arabic poetry and poetics. They showcase his mastery of the Arabic literary critical tradition, his command of the rhetoric and architectonics of the qasida, and his keen sense of aesthetics. Heinrichs reminds us that Arabic poetry and poetics did not exist in an intellectual vacuum but were coterminous and contiguous with trends and development in disciplines such as law and theology."James E. Montgomery, Sir Thomas Adams´s Professor of Arabic, Cambridge University.

• Frontispiece (A Portrait of the Scholar as a Young Man)Foreword by Michael CoopersonIntroductory Editorial RemarksGeneral issuesLiteraturtheorieEinführungPhilologyThe Classification of the Sciences and the Consolidation of Philology in Classical IslamLiterary Theory: The Problem of its EfficacyPoetik, Rhetorik, Literaturkritik, Metrik und Reimlehre Rhetorical FiguresKlassisch-arabische Theorien dichterischer RedeProsimetrical Genres in Classical Arabic LiteratureDie altarabische Qaṣīde als DichtkunstAuthority in Arabic Poetry“Manierismus” in der Arabischen LiteraturObscurity in Classical Arabic PoetryModes of Existence of the Poetry in the Arabian NightsEarly Ornate Prose and the Rhetorization of Poetry in Arabic LiteratureNaḳdTermsIstiʿārah and Badīʿ and their Terminological Relationship in Early Arabic Literary CriticismPaired Metaphors in Muḥdath PoetryOn the Genesis of the Haqîqa-Majâz Dichotomy“Takhyīl” and its TraditionsRose Versus Narcissus. Observations on an Arabic Literary Debate Notes on the IndexIndex of Classical Authors, Selected Book Titles, and Key Terms