Wolfhart Heinrichsʼ 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 (Portrait of the Scholar as a Young Man)Foreword by Michael CoopersonIntroductory Editorial RemarksAuthorsTa`abbaṭa Sharran, Goethe, ShākirScherzhafter badīʿ bei Abū NuwāsMuslim b. al-Walīd und badīʿIbn al-MuʿtazzDead Garments, Poor Nobles, and a Handsome Youth: Notes on a Poem by al-ṢanawbarīThe Meaning of MutanabbīAl-Ǧauharīs MetrikDer Teil und das Ganze: Die Autoanthologie Ṣafī Al-Dīn Al-ḤillīsʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-ʿAbbāsī (al-Sayyid ʿAbd al-Raḥīm)Semitic Studies, Arabic LinguisticsStudies in Neo-Aramaic (Introduction)Peculiarities of the Verbal System of Senāya within the Framework of Northeastern Neo-Aramaic (NENA)The Modern Assyrians – Name and NationA South-Arabian Bronze Vessel (with Ilse Lichtenstadter)Ibn Khaldūn as a Historical Linguist with an Excursus on the Question of Ancient gāf The Beginnings of Caseless ArabicThe Etymology of Muqarnas: Some ObservationsJurisprudence, Juridical RhetoricsOn the Figurative (majâz) in Muslim Interpretation and Legal HermeneuticsQawāʿid as a Genreof Legal LiteratureStructuring the Law: Remarks on the Furūq Literature“Genres” in the Kitāb al-Luqta of Ibn Rushd´s Bidāyat Al-Mujtahid wa-Nihāyat al-MuqtaṣidǦadal bei aṭ-Ṭūfī: Eine Interpretation seiner BeispielsammlungNaǧm al-Dīn al-Ṭūfī on the Incorrect Reading of the Fātiḥa and Other Thought ExperimentsNotes on the IndexIndex of Classical Authors, Selected Book Titles, and Key Terms