Wolfhart Heinrichs' Essays and Articles on Arabic Literature: General Issues, Terms is the first of two volumes which showcases a great number of Heinrichs' writings on his central field of research: Arabic literature. This volume specifically looks at poetry and rhetoric, and their indigenous theories and terminologies.

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 (A Portrait of the Scholar as a Young Man)

Foreword by Michael Cooperson

Introductory Editorial Remarks

General issues

Literaturtheorie

Einführung

Philology

The Classification of the Sciences and the Consolidation of Philology in Classical Islam

Literary Theory: The Problem of its Efficacy

Poetik, Rhetorik, Literaturkritik, Metrik und Reimlehre

Rhetorical Figures

Klassisch-arabische Theorien dichterischer Rede

Prosimetrical Genres in Classical Arabic Literature

Die altarabische Qäide als Dichtkunst

Authority in Arabic Poetry

"Manierismus" in der Arabischen Literatur

Obscurity in Classical Arabic Poetry

Modes of Existence of the Poetry in the Arabian Nights

Early Ornate Prose and the Rhetorization of Poetry in Arabic Literature

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Terms

Isti¿arah and Badi¿ and their Terminological Relationship in Early Arabic Literary Criticism

Paired Metaphors in Mu¿dath Poetry

On the Genesis of the Haqîqa-Majâz Dichotomy

"Takhyil" and its Traditions

Rose Versus Narcissus. Observations on an Arabic Literary Debate

Notes on the Index

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