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-Jaohioz's Kitab al-bayan wa al-tabyin - Philip F. Kennedy: The maqamat as a nexus of interests: reflections on Abdelfattah Kilito's Les saeances - Julia Bray: the physical world and the writer's eye : al-Tanukhi and medicine - Notes - Bibliographies - Index
Arabic literature -- 750 - 1258 -- History and criticism
Arabic literature -- 1258 - 1800 -- History and criticism