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The Doctors' Dinner Party
A witty satire of the medical profession The Doctors’ Dinner Party is an eleventh-century satire in the form of a novella, set in a medical milieu. A young doctor from out of town …
Scheherazade's Children
Scheherazade’s Children gathers together leading scholars to explore the reverberations of the tales of the Arabian Nights across a startlingly wide and transnational range of …
Recognition in the Arabic Narrative Tradition
According to Aristotle, a well-crafted recognition scene is one of the basic constituents of a successful narrative. It is the point when hidden facts and identities come to …
The Wine Song in Classical Arabic Poetry
Classical Arab civilization produced the most extensive and highly developed bacchic tradition in world literature, In this book, Kennedy traces the history of wine poetry from its …
Doctors' Dinner Party
A witty satire of the medical professionThe Doctors Dinner Party is an eleventh-century satire in the form of a novella, set in a medical milieu. A young doctor from out of town …
Islamic Reflections, Arabic Musings
Fifteen essays on literature, linguistics, history and epigraphy. Contents include: Maysir-gambling in early Arabic poetry ( N Jamil ); the Qu'ran as a source of law: the case of …