Wolfhart Heinrichs' Essays and Articles on Arabic Literature - Two Volume Set

Wolfhart Heinrichs' Essays and Articles on Arabic Literature showcases a great number of Heinrichs¿ writings in two volumes on his central field of research on Arabic literature, Semitic Studies, and Islamic Jurisprudence.
Wolfhart Heinrichs (1941-2014) was James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic at Harvard University. He is remembered as a significant adviser to Fuat Sezgin¿s fundamental Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums, and as an editor of and contributor to the Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second edition, and, most importantly, as an author of many independent studies on Arabic literature, many of them ground-breaking in the history of Arabic philology. He is also known for his studies on Semitic Linguistics and Islamic Jurisprudence.
Both volumes collect relevant bibliographical data, offer an introductory essay on the author by his distinguished student, Michael Cooperson (UCLA), and provide a selection of Wolfhart Heinrichs' essays surrounding particular themes. The first volume looks at poetry and rhetoric, and their indigenous theories and terminologies. The second volume includes writings on Arabic literature, Semitic Studies, and Islamic Jurisprudence.
The two volumes will appeal to students and researchers in the field of Arabic and Islamic Studies, and particularly to those interested in Arabic literature.

List of contents

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 Qä¿de 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
Näd
Terms
Isti¿¿rah and Bad¿¿ and their Terminological Relationship in Early Arabic Literary Criticism
Paired Metaphors in Mu¿dath Poetry
On the Genesis of the Haqîqa-Majâz Dichotomy
"Takhy¿l" 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`abbäa Sharran, Goethe, Sh¿kir
Scherzhafter bad¿¿ bei Ab¿ Nuw¿s
Muslim b. al-Wal¿d und bad¿¿
Ibn al-Mu¿tazz
Dead Garments, Poor Nobles, and a Handsome Youth: Notes on a Poem by al-¿anawbar¿
The Meaning of Mutanabb¿
Al-¿auhar¿s Metrik
Der Teil und das Ganze: Die Autoanthologie ¿af¿ Al-D¿n Al-¿ill¿s
¿Abd al-Rä¿m al-¿Abb¿s¿ (al-Sayyid ¿Abd al-Rä¿m)
Semitic Studies, Arabic Linguistics
Studies in Neo-Aramaic (Introduction)
Peculiarities of the Verbal System of Sen¿ya within the Framework of Northeastern Neo-Aramaic (NENA)
The Modern Assyrians - Name and Nation
A South-Arabian Bronze Vessel
Ibn Khald¿n as a Historical Linguist with an Excursus on the Question of Ancient g¿f
The Beginnings of Caseless Arabic
The Etymology of Muqarnas: Some Observations
Jurisprudence, Juridical Rhetorics
On the Figurative (majâz) in Muslim interpretation and legal hermeneutics
Qaw¿¿id as a Genreof Legal Literature
Structuring the Law: Remarks on the Fur¿q Literature
"Genres" in the Kit¿b al-Luqta of Ibn Rushd¿s Bid¿yat Al-Mujtahid Wa-Nih¿yat Al-Muqtäid
¿adal bei ä-¿¿f¿: Eine Interpretation seiner Beispielsammlung
Näm al-D¿n al-¿¿f¿ on the Incorrect Reading of the F¿ti¿a and Other Thought Experiments
Index of Classical Authors and Works

About the author

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.

Summary

Wolfhart Heinrichs’ Essays and Articles on Arabic Literature showcases a great number of Heinrichs' writings in two volumes on his central field of research on Arabic literature, Semitic Studies, and Islamic Jurisprudence.

Product details

• Assisted by: Hinrich Biesterfeldt (Editor), Alma Giese (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2025
• EAN: 9781032625850
• ISBN: 978-1-032-62585-0
• No. of pages: 852
• Series: Variorum Collected Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies