Book contents
- Frontmatter
- The ʿAbbasid Caliphate: a historical introduction
- 1 Adab and the concept of belles-lettres
- 2 Shuʿūbiyyah in Arabic literature
- 3 Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ and early ʿAbbasid prose
- 4 Al-Jāḥiẓ
- 5 Al-Ṣaḥib Ibn ʿAbbād
- 6 Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī
- 7 Al-Hamadhānī, al-Ḥarīrī and the maqāmāt genre
- 8 Fables and legends
- 9 ʿAbbasid poetry and its antecedents
- 10 Hunting poetry (ṭardiyjāt)
- 11 Political poetry
- 12 Love poetry (ghazal)
- 13 Wine poetry (khamriyyāt)
- 14 Mystical poetry
- 15 Ascetic poetry (zuhdiyyāt)
- 16 Bashshār b. Burd, Abū ʾl-ʿAtāhiyah and Abū Nuwās
- 17 Al-Mutanabbī
- 18 Abū Firās al-Ḥamdānī
- 19 Abū ʾl-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī
- 20 Literary criticism
- 21 Ibn al-Muʿtazz and Kitāb al-Badīʿ
- 22 Regional literature: Egypt
- 23 Regional literature: the Yemen
- Appendix: Table of metres
- Bibliography
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 May 2012
- Frontmatter
- The ʿAbbasid Caliphate: a historical introduction
- 1 Adab and the concept of belles-lettres
- 2 Shuʿūbiyyah in Arabic literature
- 3 Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ and early ʿAbbasid prose
- 4 Al-Jāḥiẓ
- 5 Al-Ṣaḥib Ibn ʿAbbād
- 6 Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī
- 7 Al-Hamadhānī, al-Ḥarīrī and the maqāmāt genre
- 8 Fables and legends
- 9 ʿAbbasid poetry and its antecedents
- 10 Hunting poetry (ṭardiyjāt)
- 11 Political poetry
- 12 Love poetry (ghazal)
- 13 Wine poetry (khamriyyāt)
- 14 Mystical poetry
- 15 Ascetic poetry (zuhdiyyāt)
- 16 Bashshār b. Burd, Abū ʾl-ʿAtāhiyah and Abū Nuwās
- 17 Al-Mutanabbī
- 18 Abū Firās al-Ḥamdānī
- 19 Abū ʾl-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī
- 20 Literary criticism
- 21 Ibn al-Muʿtazz and Kitāb al-Badīʿ
- 22 Regional literature: Egypt
- 23 Regional literature: the Yemen
- Appendix: Table of metres
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Abbasid Belles Lettres , pp. i - xviPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1990