The post-classical period: parameters and preliminaries
by ROGER ALLEN
1 Arabic poetry in the post-classical age
2 Poetic creativity in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries
3 Arabic religious poetry, 1200–1800
4 The role of the pre-modern: the generic characteristics of the band
5 Pre-modern belletristic prose
6 The essay and debate (al-risāla and al-munāẓara)
8 Mamluk history and historians
9 Historiography in Arabic during the Ottoman period
10 Popular poetry in the post-classical period, 1150–1850
11 Popular prose in the post-classical period
12 A Thousand and One Nights: a history of the text and its reception
15 Other sīras and popular narratives
16 Popular religious narratives
17 Drama in the post-classical period: a survey