Wolfhart Heinrichs' Essays and Articles on Arabic Literature

Authors, Semitic Studies, and Islamic Jurisprudence
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-03-204641-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 442 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Variorum Collected Studies

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 Sezgin's 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 Heinrichs' 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.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Giese, Alma

Biesterfeldt, Hinrich

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontispiece (Portrait of the Scholar as a Young Man)

Foreword by Michael Cooperson

Introductory Editorial Remarks



Authors

Ta`abbata 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-Sanawbari

The Meaning of Mutanabbi

Al-Gauharis Metrik

Der Teil und das Ganze: Die Autoanthologie Safi Al-Din Al-Hillis

'Abd al-Rahim al-'Abbasi (al-Sayyid 'Abd al-Rahim)



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

Qawa'id 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-Muqtasid

Gadal bei at-Tufi: Eine Interpretation seiner Beispielsammlung

Nagm al-Din al-Tufi on the Incorrect Reading of the Fatiha and Other Thought Experiments



Notes on the Index

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.