Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila, Ph.D. (1994), is Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies (University of Edinburgh). His most recent monographs are Al-Maqrīzī’s al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar, Vol. V, Section 4: Persia and Its Kings, Part I (Brill, 2018) and Khwadāynāmag. The Middle Persian Book of Kings (Brill, 2018).

• PrefacePART 1: Study1 Khālid ibn Ṣafwān as a Historical Character1.1 Historical Context1.2 Sources1.3 Life and Political Importance1.4 Genealogy and Family1.5 Khālid’s Later Fame2 Khālid ibn Ṣafwān and Early Arabic Prose2.1 Linguistic and Literary Context2.2 Khālid as a Literary Character2.3 Stories and their Rhetorical Features2.4 Khālid as Storyteller and Transmitter of Poetry2.5 Anecdotes as Early ʿAbbāsid Prose2.6 Mufākhara and maḥāsin wa-masāwī2.7 Speeches2.8 The Literary Khālid: ConclusionsPART 2: Translations3 Stories from al-Balādhurī, Ansāb VII/1: 55–88 (B1–B115)4 Stories from Other Sources (A1–A108)4.1 Storyteller and Transmitter of Poetry4.2 Encounters with Caliphs and Governors4.3 Mufākharas and maḥāsin wa-masāwī4.4 Laḥḥān and Linguistic Authority4.5 Orator and Wit4.6 Family4.7 Miser4.8 Sayings4.9 Various Stories5 Stories Excluded from the Corpus (C1–C3)BibliographySource References to B1–B115Index of Personal NamesIndex of Place NamesIndex of Topics

Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila, Ph.D. (1994), is Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies (University of Edinburgh). His most recent monographs are Al-Maqrīzī’s al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar, Vol. V, Section 4: Persia and Its Kings, Part I (Brill, 2018) and Khwadāynāmag. The Middle Persian Book of Kings (Brill, 2018).

• PrefacePART 1: Study1 Khālid ibn Ṣafwān as a Historical Character1.1 Historical Context1.2 Sources1.3 Life and Political Importance1.4 Genealogy and Family1.5 Khālid’s Later Fame2 Khālid ibn Ṣafwān and Early Arabic Prose2.1 Linguistic and Literary Context2.2 Khālid as a Literary Character2.3 Stories and their Rhetorical Features2.4 Khālid as Storyteller and Transmitter of Poetry2.5 Anecdotes as Early ʿAbbāsid Prose2.6 Mufākhara and maḥāsin wa-masāwī2.7 Speeches2.8 The Literary Khālid: ConclusionsPART 2: Translations3 Stories from al-Balādhurī, Ansāb VII/1: 55–88 (B1–B115)4 Stories from Other Sources (A1–A108)4.1 Storyteller and Transmitter of Poetry4.2 Encounters with Caliphs and Governors4.3 Mufākharas and maḥāsin wa-masāwī4.4 Laḥḥān and Linguistic Authority4.5 Orator and Wit4.6 Family4.7 Miser4.8 Sayings4.9 Various Stories5 Stories Excluded from the Corpus (C1–C3)BibliographySource References to B1–B115Index of Personal NamesIndex of Place NamesIndex of Topics

Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila, Ph.D. (1994), is Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies (University of Edinburgh). His most recent monographs are Al-Maqrīzī’s al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar, Vol. V, Section 4: Persia and Its Kings, Part I (Brill, 2018) and Khwadāynāmag. The Middle Persian Book of Kings (Brill, 2018).

• PrefacePART 1: Study1 Khālid ibn Ṣafwān as a Historical Character1.1 Historical Context1.2 Sources1.3 Life and Political Importance1.4 Genealogy and Family1.5 Khālid’s Later Fame2 Khālid ibn Ṣafwān and Early Arabic Prose2.1 Linguistic and Literary Context2.2 Khālid as a Literary Character2.3 Stories and their Rhetorical Features2.4 Khālid as Storyteller and Transmitter of Poetry2.5 Anecdotes as Early ʿAbbāsid Prose2.6 Mufākhara and maḥāsin wa-masāwī2.7 Speeches2.8 The Literary Khālid: ConclusionsPART 2: Translations3 Stories from al-Balādhurī, Ansāb VII/1: 55–88 (B1–B115)4 Stories from Other Sources (A1–A108)4.1 Storyteller and Transmitter of Poetry4.2 Encounters with Caliphs and Governors4.3 Mufākharas and maḥāsin wa-masāwī4.4 Laḥḥān and Linguistic Authority4.5 Orator and Wit4.6 Family4.7 Miser4.8 Sayings4.9 Various Stories5 Stories Excluded from the Corpus (C1–C3)BibliographySource References to B1–B115Index of Personal NamesIndex of Place NamesIndex of Topics