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-Jāḥiẓ's Kitāb al-bayān wa al-tabyīn -- Philip F. Kennedy: The maqāmāt as a nexus of interests: reflections on Abdelfattah Kilito's Les séances -- Julia Bray: the physical world and the writer's eye : al-Tanūkhī and medicine -- Notes -- Bibliographies -- Index.
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Arabic literature - 750-1258 - History and criticism.
Arabic literature - 1258-1800 - History and criticism.