Bilal Orfali, Ph.D. (2009) is Sheikh Zayed Chair for Arabic and Islamic Studies at the American University of Beirut. He has published extensively both in English and Arabic on Arabic literature, Sufism, and quranic Studies.Ramzi Baalbaki, Ph.D. (1978), University of London, is the Margaret Weyerhaeuser Jewett Professor of Arabic at the American University of Beirut. He has published extensively both in English and Arabic on the history of the Arabic grammatical and lexicographical traditions.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 K. al-Anwār al-bahiyya fī taʿrīf maqāmāt fuṣaḥāʾ al-bariyya2 From Maqām to Maqāma3 The Attribution to Abū Manṣūr al-Thaʿālibī4 Abū Manṣūr al-Thaʿālibī5 ManuscriptsBibliographyScholarly EditionIndex of Qurʾanic VersesIndex of Prophetic TraditionIndex of NamesIndex of PlacesIndex of PoetryIndex of SourcesIndex of Chapters

Bilal Orfali, Ph.D. (2009) is Sheikh Zayed Chair for Arabic and Islamic Studies at the American University of Beirut. He has published extensively both in English and Arabic on Arabic literature, Sufism, and quranic Studies.Ramzi Baalbaki, Ph.D. (1978), University of London, is the Margaret Weyerhaeuser Jewett Professor of Arabic at the American University of Beirut. He has published extensively both in English and Arabic on the history of the Arabic grammatical and lexicographical traditions.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 K. al-Anwār al-bahiyya fī taʿrīf maqāmāt fuṣaḥāʾ al-bariyya2 From Maqām to Maqāma3 The Attribution to Abū Manṣūr al-Thaʿālibī4 Abū Manṣūr al-Thaʿālibī5 ManuscriptsBibliographyScholarly EditionIndex of Qurʾanic VersesIndex of Prophetic TraditionIndex of NamesIndex of PlacesIndex of PoetryIndex of SourcesIndex of Chapters

Bilal Orfali, Ph.D. (2009) is Sheikh Zayed Chair for Arabic and Islamic Studies at the American University of Beirut. He has published extensively both in English and Arabic on Arabic literature, Sufism, and quranic Studies.Ramzi Baalbaki, Ph.D. (1978), University of London, is the Margaret Weyerhaeuser Jewett Professor of Arabic at the American University of Beirut. He has published extensively both in English and Arabic on the history of the Arabic grammatical and lexicographical traditions.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 K. al-Anwār al-bahiyya fī taʿrīf maqāmāt fuṣaḥāʾ al-bariyya2 From Maqām to Maqāma3 The Attribution to Abū Manṣūr al-Thaʿālibī4 Abū Manṣūr al-Thaʿālibī5 ManuscriptsBibliographyScholarly EditionIndex of Qurʾanic VersesIndex of Prophetic TraditionIndex of NamesIndex of PlacesIndex of PoetryIndex of SourcesIndex of Chapters