Introduction. Oral composition in pre-Islamic poetry, James T. Monroe; Structuralist interpretations of pre-Islamic poetry: critique and new dimensions, Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych; Islamic kingship and Arabic panegyric poetry of the early 9th century, Stefan Sperl; The poetic coterie of the Caliph al-Mutawakkil (d. 247 H.): a contribution to the analysis of authorities of socio-literary legitimation, J. E. Bencheike; The uses of the qasida: thematic and structural patterns in a poem of Bashshar, Julie Scott Meisami; Abbasid praise poetry in light of dramatic discourse and speech act theory, Beatrice Gruendler; Revisiting Layla al-Akhyaliya's trespass, Dana Sajdi; Time and reality in nasib and ghazal, Renate Jacobi; Heterotopia and the wine poem in early Islamic culture, Yaseen Noorani; Sensibility and synaesthesia: Ibn al-Rumi's singing slave girl, Akiko Motoyoshi; Name and epithet: the philology and semiotics of animal nomenclature in early Arabic poetry, Jaroslav Stetkevych; Guises of the ghul: dissembling simile and semantic overflow in the classical Arabic nasib, Michael A. Sells; From primary to secondary qasidas: thoughts on the development of classical Arabic poetry, M.M. Badawi; Toward a redefinition of 'badi' poetry, Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych
Arabic poetry - 7th.-9th.century - History and criticism