Poetic Desire and Literary Thievery - Economies of Intertextuality in Arabic Literature

About the author

Muhsin J. al-Musawi is Professor of Arabic and Comparative Studies at Columbia University. He is the editor of the Journal of Arabic Literature and the recipient of numerous awards including the 2002 Owais Award in Literary Criticism, the 2018 Kuwait Prize in Arabic Language and Literature, and the 2022 King Faisal International Prize for Arabic Literature in English. Recent publications include The Arabian Nights in Contemporary World Cultures (Cambridge, 2021), which won the Sheikh Zayed Book Award.

Product details

• Authors: Muhsin J. Al-Musawi
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 30.11.2025
• EAN: 9781009584579
• ISBN: 978-1-009-58457-9
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Subjects: Poetry, HISTORY / Middle East / General, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Middle Eastern history, Literary theory, Philology, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Poetry / Poems, Literature of the Middle East