Ibn al-Muqaffa's Kalila wa-Dimma and Boccaccio's On Poetry: a hybrid poetics and avant-garde hermeneutics /Marianne Marroum --Short stories in classical Arabic literature: the case of Khغalid and Umm Salama /Jaako Heameen-Anttila --Literary criticism as literature /Geert Jan van Gelder --Love in the time of pilgrimage or A lost maqama of Ibn Durayd? /Philip F. Kennedy --Tawqi (Apostille): royal brevity in the pre-modern Islamic appeals court /Beatrice Gruendler --The aesthetics of pure formalism: a letter of Qabus b. Vushmgir /Everett K. Rowson --Rhetorical values in Bidi /Lale Behzadi --The art of the muqaddima in the works of Abu Mansur al-Thaalibi /Bilal Orfali --The double entendre (tawriya) as a hermeneutical stratagem: a 'forensic maqama' by Abu Muohammad al-Qasim b. Ali al-oHarغirغi /Angelika Neuwirth.
Arabic prose literature, 750-1258 - History and criticism