Arabic and Islamic studies in honor of James A. Bellamy /
edited by Mustansir Mir in collaboration with Jarl E. Fossum.
Princeton, N.J. :
The Darwin Press,
1993.
vi, 359 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates :
illustrations ;
24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 30-37).
Part I: Epigraphy. Imra'alqays, son of cAmr: King of ...??? / Michael Zwettler -- Part II: Poetry. The beginnings of classical Arabic poetry / Adel S. Gamel -- There must be more to pre-Islamic poetry than meets the eye / Jareer Abu-Haidar -- The generous eye/I and the poetics of redemption: an elegy by al-Faricah b. Shaddad al-Murriyah / Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych -- "I've stayed by the grave": a nasib/elegy for Nudar / Th. E. Homerin -- Along the edge of mirage: the Mufaddaliyah of al-Mukhabbal as-Sacdi, an interpretation / Michael Sells -- The cat and the camel: a literary motif / James A. Montgomery -- Part III: Scripture, theology, and politics. The apostle concept in the Qur'an and pre-Islamic Near Eastern literature / Jarl E. Fossum -- Passives in the Qur'an: preliminary notes / Mustansir Mir -- The priority of reason in the interpretation of scripture: Ibn Taymiyah and the Mutakallimun / Nicholas Heer -- Badic az-Zaman al-Hamadhani and his social and political vision / Wadad al-Qadi -- Part IV: Sirah, bibliography, and travel literature. Negotiating a sacred space in the Sirah: finding the Masjid for the prophet / Abdelkader I. Tayob -- On medieval authorial bibliographies: Al-Yacqubi and Ibn Hajar / Franz Rosenthal -- Tourist Adab and Cairene architecture: the medieval paradigm of Ibn Jubayr and Ibn Battutah / Ian Richard Netton -- Part V: Miscellanea. The sacred and the secular: rival themes in Arabic literature / L.E. Goodman -- Maugis d'Aigremont: Arabic parallels / M.C. Lyons.