ISBN-13: 9780815629368 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 129 str.
ISBN-13: 9780815629368 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 129 str.
In this text Kilito argues that genre - not authorship - is at the heart of classic Arabic literature. He examines love poetry and panegyric, the Prophet's Hadith and the literary anecdote, as well as such themes as memorization, plagiarism and forgery and the dream visions of the dead.