1st Edition
Wolfhart Heinrichsʼ Essays and Articles on Arabic Literature Authors, Semitic Studies, and Islamic Jurisprudence
Wolfhart Heinrichs’ Essays and Articles on Arabic Literature: Authors, Semitic Studies, and Islamic Jurisprudence is the second of two volumes that showcase a great number of Heinrichs’ writings on Arabic literature, Semitic Studies, and Islamic jurisprudence.
Wolfhart Heinrichs (1941-2014) was James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic at Harvard University. He is remembered as a significant adviser to Fuat Sezginʼs fundamental Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums; as an editor of and contributor to the Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second edition; and, most importantly, as an author of many independent studies on Arabic literature, many of which were groundbreaking in the history of Arabic philology. He is also known for his studies on Semitic linguistics and Islamic jurisprudence.
This volume collects relevant bibliographical data, offers an introductory essay on the author by his distinguished student Michael Cooperson (UCLA), and presents reprints of his articles and essays. These include the remainder of Heinrichsʼ contributions to Arabic literature, dealing with a number of classical Arabic authors, Semitic studies in general (among them Aramaic and Neo-Aramaic), and Rhetoric as used in Islamic jurisprudence and in the game of scholarly debate (jadal). An index of classical authors, book titles, and technical terms concludes the volume.
This volume and its companion will appeal to students and researchers in the fields of Arabic literature, Semitic Studies, and Islamic jurisprudence.
Frontispiece (Portrait of the Scholar as a Young Man)
Foreword by Michael Cooperson
Introductory Editorial Remarks
Authors
Ta`abbaṭa Sharran, Goethe, Shākir
Scherzhafter badīʿ bei Abū Nuwās
Muslim b. al-Walīd und badīʿ
Ibn al-Muʿtazz
Dead Garments, Poor Nobles, and a Handsome Youth: Notes on a Poem by al-Ṣanawbarī
The Meaning of Mutanabbī
Al-Ǧauharīs Metrik
Der Teil und das Ganze: Die Autoanthologie Ṣafī Al-Dīn Al-Ḥillīs
ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-ʿAbbāsī (al-Sayyid ʿAbd al-Raḥīm)
Semitic Studies, Arabic Linguistics
Studies in Neo-Aramaic (Introduction)
Peculiarities of the Verbal System of Senāya within the Framework of Northeastern Neo-Aramaic (NENA)
The Modern Assyrians – Name and Nation
A South-Arabian Bronze Vessel (with Ilse Lichtenstadter)
Ibn Khaldūn as a Historical Linguist with an Excursus on the Question of Ancient gāf
The Beginnings of Caseless Arabic
The Etymology of Muqarnas: Some Observations
Jurisprudence, Juridical Rhetorics
On the Figurative (majâz) in Muslim Interpretation and Legal Hermeneutics
Qawāʿid as a Genreof Legal Literature
Structuring the Law: Remarks on the Furūq Literature
“Genres” in the Kitāb al-Luqta of Ibn Rushd´s Bidāyat Al-Mujtahid wa-Nihāyat al-Muqtaṣid
Ǧadal bei aṭ-Ṭūfī: Eine Interpretation seiner Beispielsammlung
Naǧm al-Dīn al-Ṭūfī on the Incorrect Reading of the Fātiḥa and Other Thought Experiments
Notes on the Index
Index of Classical Authors, Selected Book Titles, and Key Terms
Biography
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.
"Like dear members of a dispersed tribe gathered again; like precious stray camels rounded up; like scattered lustrous pearls strung at last: here, in this treasure trove, are brought together many matchless studies, the opera minora of a major scholar, Wolfhart Heinrichs, whose learning is as deep as it is wide, ranging from Arabic poetics, poetry, and poets to Muslim jurisprudence and Semitic linguistics."
Geert Jan, retired Laudian Professor of Arabic, Oxford University.
"With these seminal and incisive articles, Wolfhart Heinrichs played a major role in the late twentieth century renaissance in the study of classical Arabic poetry and poetics. They showcase his mastery of the Arabic literary critical tradition, his command of the rhetoric and architectonics of the qasida, and his keen sense of aesthetics. Heinrichs reminds us that Arabic poetry and poetics did not exist in an intellectual vacuum but were coterminous and contiguous with trends and development in disciplines such as law and theology."
James E. Montgomery, Sir Thomas Adams´s Professor of Arabic, Cambridge University.
