Francesca Bellino, Ph.D. (Firenze, 2005) is an Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Naples L’Orientale. Her field of research concerns pre-modern Arabic literature and she has worked in particular on popular literature, encyclopedism, and adab literature.Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen is Professor of Modern History at Sorbonne Université (Paris). She works on religious and cultural history of Early Modern and Modern Egypt. Her most recent edited book is: Adab and Modernity. A “Civilising Process” ? (Sixteenth-Twenty-first Century), Leiden, Brill, 2019.Luca Patrizi is a Lecturer in Islamic Studies at the University of Turin. He has been a Research Fellow at the Universities of Geneva, Sorbonne-Paris, Bonn and Exeter. His interests in Islamic studies focus on theological and ethical issues and on the doctrines and practices of Islamic esotericism.

• ContentsPreface. A Project, a Conference, a BookList of FiguresNotes on Contributors1 Introduction. L’adab, toujours recommencé“Origins”, Transmissions, MetamorphosesCatherine Mayeur-Jaouen2 From Education to EtiquetteAn Attempt to Reconstruct the Semantic “Enlargement” of the Term AdabLuca PatriziPart 1: Backgrounds and Foundations3 Paideia et adabQuelques remarques préliminairesJakub Sypiański4 De l’adab au musarLa littérature philosophique hébraïque dans la formation de l’éthique juive au Moyen ÂgeFrancesca GorgoniPart 2: The “Origins” of AdabIntroduction to Part 2Francesca BellinoSection 1: Adab and the Formation of Literary Canons5 Wine, Law and Ironyal-Jāḥīẓ’s Kitāb al-shārib wa-l-mashrūb (On the Drinker and Drinks)Ignacio Sánchez6 Developing a Knowledge System Based on AdabBirds Fluttering from Ibn Qutayba’s Adab al-Kātib to the ʿUyūn al-AkhbārFrancesca Bellino7 Adab al-imlāʾ wa-l-istimlāʾ d’Abū Saʿd ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Samʿānī (m. 562/1166)Refonder et canoniser la transmission du hadith au prisme de l’adabFrancesco ChiabottiSection 2: Adab, Power and Ethics8 Adab in Early Wisdom Literature and the Role of Aristotle’s Letters to AlexanderFaustina Doufikar-Aerts9 Deciphering Difference in Premodern Islamic Political ThoughtNeguin Yavari10 Règles d’adab et maîtrise des émotionsAmour et colère en parallèle dans l’Islam médiévalMonica Balda-TillierPart 3: The Transmission of Adab: The Redefinition of Genres through the CenturiesIntroduction to Part 3Francesca BellinoSection 1: Kalīla wa-Dimna: Back and Forth from India to the West11 The Crow Who Aped the PartridgeIbn al-Muqaffaʿ’s Aesopian Language in a Fable of Kalīla wa-DimnaIstván T. Kristó-Nagy12 Homecoming: The Journey Back to India of Kalīla wa-DimnaThibaut d’HubertSection 2: Evolution of Genres: The maqāmāt13 Adab as MetamorphosisText, Translation, and Commentary of the Mawṣiliyya of HamadhānīBilal Orfali and Maurice Pomerantz14 The Maqāma as a Romantic Novel?Shihāb al-Dīn al-Ālūsī (1802–1854) and “The Cooing of the Dove in the Qamariyya School Quarter”Stefan ReichmuthSection 3: Changes in Function: The Anthologies15 Buried Treasure, Sweet Basil and the Turtle in the TreeInnovative Features of Arabic adab in the Mamluk and Ottoman PeriodsHilary Kilpatrick16 D’Ahiqar au tapis volant du roi Salomon, des mirabilia géographiques à Sindbad le marin en araméen moderneAdab et recherche orientaliste à la fin du XIXe siècleAlessandro MengozziPart 4: Metamorphoses of OriginsIntroduction to Part 4Catherine Mayeur-JaouenSection 1: Science, Aesthetics and Mysticism17 Adab et magie dans l’Islam médiévalUne lecture de traités arabes de magie à travers le prisme de l’adabJean-Charles Coulon18 When Aesthetics Is Ethics, Forging Adab through Literary ImitationThe Irano-Turkic CaseMarc Toutant19 Paradoxe et subjectivité chez Hamzah FansuriÉtienne NaveauSection 2: Reconstructing Origins beyond Ruins?20 Adab into LittératureDebating Turkish Literature in Ancien Régime FranceJonathan Haddad21 Ruins for a Renaissance: Decline, Rebirth and Cyclical History in the Arab MediterraneanElisabetta Benigni22 Al-Hāshimī’s Jawāhir al-adab: Anthology and History of Arab LiteratureFrom a Reformist Project to Egyptian Nationalism (1900–1937)Catherine Mayeur-JaouenIndex of Names and PlacesIndex of TitlesIndex of Keywords and Notions