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 seances -- 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