1st Edition
Wolfhart Heinrichs' Essays and Articles on Arabic Literature Two Volume Set
Wolfhart Heinrichs’ Essays and Articles on Arabic Literature showcases a great number of Heinrichsʼ writings in two volumes on his central field of research 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, and 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 them ground-breaking in the history of Arabic philology. He is also known for his studies on Semitic Linguistics and Islamic Jurisprudence.
Both volumes collect relevant bibliographical data, offer an introductory essay on the author by his distinguished student, Michael Cooperson (UCLA), and provide a selection of Wolfhart Heinrichs’ essays surrounding particular themes. The first volume looks at poetry and rhetoric, and their indigenous theories and terminologies. The second volume includes writings on Arabic literature, Semitic Studies, and Islamic Jurisprudence.
The two volumes will appeal to students and researchers in the field of Arabic and Islamic Studies, and particularly to those interested in Arabic literature.
Volume 1 - General Issues, Terms:
Frontispiece (The Scholar as a Young Man)
Foreword by Michael Cooperson
Introductory Editor Remarks
General issues
Literaturtheorie
Einführung
Philology
The Classification of the Sciences and the Consolidation of Philology in Classical Islam
Literary Theory
Poetik, Rhetorik, Literaturkritik, Metrik und Reimlehre von Wolfhart Heinrichs, Cambridge (Mass.)
Rhetorical Figures
Klassisch-arabische Theorien dichterischer Rede
Prosimetrical Genres in Classical Arabic Literature
Die altarabische Qaṣīde 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
Naḳd
Terms
Istiʿārah and Badīʿ and their Terminological Relationship in Early Arabic Literary Criticism
Paired Metaphors in Muḥdath Poetry
On the Genesis of the Haqîqa-Majâz Dichotomy
“Takhyīl” and its Traditions
Rose vs. Narcissus Observations on an Arabic Literary Debate
Index of Classical Authors and Key Terms
Volume 2: Authors, Semitic Studies, and Islamic Jurisprudence
Frontispiece (The Scholar as a Young Man)
Foreword by Michael Cooperson
Introductory Editor 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
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
Index of Classical Authors and Works
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.
