Writing and representation in medieval Islam: Muslim horizons/
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY:
Routledge,
2006
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Table of Contents:
- List of contributors
- Introduction
- Acknowledgements
- Note on conventions
- Fact and fiction
- Robert Irwin: Ibn Zunbul and the romance of history
- Robert G. Hoyland: history, fiction and authorship in the first centuries of Islam
- Julie Scott Meisami: Writing medieval women : representations and misrepresentations
- Appearance and truth
- James E. Montgomery: al-Jaςhiςz's Kitab al-bayan wa al-tabyin
- Philip F. Kennedy: The maqamat as a nexus of interests: reflections on Abdelfattah Kilito's Les seances
- Julia Bray: the physical world and the writer's eye : al-Tanukhi and medicine
- Notes
- Bibliographies
- Index.