Wolfhart Heinrichs' Essays and Articles on Arabic Literature: Authors, Semitic Studies, and Islamic Jurisprudence is the second of two volumes which showcase a great number of Heinrichs' writings on Arabic literature, Semitic Studies, and Islamic Jurisprudence.

Hinrich Biesterfeldt is a retired Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. He received his PhD in 1970 in Göttingen. He is the author of books and articles on Arabic literature and the history of the sciences in Islam. Together with Sebastian Günther, he is the editor of the series Islamic History and Civilization.

Alma Giese is an Arabist who received her PhD in 1980 in Giessen, Germany; a translator of numerous works from classical Arabic literature into German; and the widow of Wolfhart Heinrichs.

Frontispiece (Portrait of the Scholar as a Young Man)

Foreword by Michael Cooperson

Introductory Editorial Remarks

Authors

Ta`abbäa Sharran, Goethe, Shakir

Scherzhafter badi¿ bei Abu Nuwas

Muslim b. al-Walid und badi¿

Ibn al-Mu¿tazz

Dead Garments, Poor Nobles, and a Handsome Youth: Notes on a Poem by al-¿anawbari

The Meaning of Mutanabbi

Al-Gauharis Metrik

Der Teil und das Ganze: Die Autoanthologie ¿afi Al-Din Al-¿illis

¿Abd al-Räim al-¿Abbasi (al-Sayyid ¿Abd al-Räim)

Semitic Studies, Arabic Linguistics

Studies in Neo-Aramaic (Introduction)

Peculiarities of the Verbal System of Senaya within the Framework of Northeastern Neo-Aramaic (NENA)

The Modern Assyrians - Name and Nation

A South-Arabian Bronze Vessel (with Ilse Lichtenstadter)

Ibn Khaldun as a Historical Linguist with an Excursus on the Question of Ancient gaf

The Beginnings of Caseless Arabic

The Etymology of Muqarnas: Some Observations

Jurisprudence, Juridical Rhetorics

On the Figurative (majâz) in Muslim Interpretation and Legal Hermeneutics

Qawäid as a Genreof Legal Literature

Structuring the Law: Remarks on the Furuq Literature

"Genres" in the Kitab al-Luqta of Ibn Rushd¿s Bidayat Al-Mujtahid wa-Nihayat al-Muqtäid

Gadal bei ä-¿ufi: Eine Interpretation seiner Beispielsammlung

Nagm al-Din al-¿ufi on the Incorrect Reading of the Fati¿a and Other Thought Experiments

Notes on the Index

Index of Classical Authors, Selected Book Titles, and Key Terms