CONTENTS

            Notes on contributors

            List of abbreviations

            The post-classical period: parameters and preliminaries

            by ROGER ALLEN

PART I ELITE POETRY

      1    Arabic poetry in the post-classical age

            by SALMA KHADRA JAYYUSI

      2    Poetic creativity in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries

            by MUHAMMAD LUTFI AL-YOUSFI

      3    Arabic religious poetry, 1200–1800

            by TH. EMIL HOMERIN

      4    The role of the pre-modern: the generic characteristics of the band

            by ‘ABDULLAH IBRAHIM

PART II ELITE PROSE

      5    Pre-modern belletristic prose

            by MUHSIN AL-MUSAWI

      6    The essay and debate (al-risāla and al-munāẓara)

            by JAAKKO HÄMEEN-ANTTILA

      7    The maqāma

            by DEVIN STEWART

      8    Mamluk history and historians

            by ROBERT IRWIN

      9    Historiography in Arabic during the Ottoman period

            by MICHAEL WINTER

PART III POPULAR POETRY

    10    Popular poetry in the post-classical period, 1150–1850

            by MARGARET LARKIN

PART IV POPULAR PROSE

    11    Popular prose in the post-classical period

            by DWIGHT F. REYNOLDS

    12    A Thousand and One Nights: a history of the text and its reception

            by DWIGHT F. REYNOLDS

    13    Sīrat ‘Antar ibn Shaddād

            by REMKE KRUK

    14    Sīrat Banī Hilāl

            by DWIGHT F. REYNOLDS

    15    Other sīras and popular narratives

            by PETER HEATH

    16    Popular religious narratives

            by KAMAL ABDEL-MALEK

PART V DRAMA

    17    Drama in the post-classical period: a survey

            by ROSELLA DORIGO CECCATO

    18    Pre-modern drama

            by PHILIP SADGROVE

PART VI CRITICISM

    19    Criticism in the post-classical period: a survey

            by WILLIAM SMYTH

            Bibliography

            Index