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.

Volume 1 - General Issues, Terms:

Frontispiece (The Scholar as a Young Man)

Foreword by Michael Cooperson

Introductory Editor Remarks

General issues

Literaturtheorie

Einführung

Philology

The Classification of the Sciences and the Consolidation of Philology in Classical Islam

Literary Theory

Poetik, Rhetorik, Literaturkritik, Metrik und Reimlehre von Wolfhart Heinrichs, Cambridge (Mass.)

Rhetorical Figures

Klassisch-arabische Theorien dichterischer Rede

Prosimetrical Genres in Classical Arabic Literature

Die altarabische Qaṣīde als Dichtkunst

Authority in Arabic Poetry

“Manierismus” in der Arabischen Literatur

Obscurity in Classical Arabic Poetry

Modes of Existence of the Poetry in the Arabian Nights

Early Ornate Prose and the Rhetorization of Poetry in Arabic Literature

Naḳd

Terms

Istiʿārah and Badīʿ and their Terminological Relationship in Early Arabic Literary Criticism

Paired Metaphors in Muḥdath Poetry

On the Genesis of the Haqîqa-Majâz Dichotomy

“Takhyīl” and its Traditions

Rose vs. Narcissus Observations on an Arabic Literary Debate

Index of Classical Authors and Key Terms

Volume 2: Authors, Semitic Studies, and Islamic Jurisprudence

Frontispiece (The Scholar as a Young Man)

Foreword by Michael Cooperson

Introductory Editor Remarks

Authors

Ta`abbaṭa Sharran, Goethe, Shākir

Scherzhafter badīʿ bei Abū Nuwās

Muslim b. al-Walīd und badīʿ

Ibn al-Muʿtazz

Dead Garments, Poor Nobles, and a Handsome Youth: Notes on a Poem by al-Ṣanawbarī

The Meaning of Mutanabbī

Al-Ǧauharīs Metrik

Der Teil und das Ganze: Die Autoanthologie Ṣafī Al-Dīn Al-Ḥillīs

ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-ʿAbbāsī (al-Sayyid ʿAbd al-Raḥīm)

Semitic Studies, Arabic Linguistics

Studies in Neo-Aramaic (Introduction)

Peculiarities of the Verbal System of Senāya within the Framework of Northeastern Neo-Aramaic (NENA)

The Modern Assyrians – Name and Nation

A South-Arabian Bronze Vessel

Ibn Khaldūn as a Historical Linguist with an Excursus on the Question of Ancient gāf

The Beginnings of Caseless Arabic

The Etymology of Muqarnas: Some Observations

Jurisprudence, Juridical Rhetorics

On the Figurative (majâz) in Muslim interpretation and legal hermeneutics

Qawāʿid as a Genreof Legal Literature

Structuring the Law: Remarks on the Furūq Literature

“Genres” in the Kitāb al-Luqta of Ibn Rushd´s Bidāyat Al-Mujtahid Wa-Nihāyat Al-Muqtaṣid

Ǧadal bei aṭ-Ṭūfī: Eine Interpretation seiner Beispielsammlung

Naǧm al-Dīn al-Ṭūfī on the Incorrect Reading of the Fātiḥa and Other Thought Experiments

Index of Classical Authors and Works