Recognition in the Arabic Narrative Tradition: Discovery, Deliverance and Delusion

ISBN-13: 9781474413725 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 368 str.

Philip Kennedy

Opis

Offers new vistas for reading, understanding and interpreting Arabic literature as well as the culture in which it was produced.

Spis treści

Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1. A Cognitive Reading of the Qurʾānic Story of Joseph; Chapter 2. Joseph in The Life of Muḥammad: Prophecy in Tafsīr (Exegesis), Sīrah (Biography) and Ḥadīth (Tradition); Chapter 3. Joseph and His Avatars; Chapter 4. Intertextuality and Reading: The Myth of Deliverance in al-Faraj baʿd al-Shiddah; Chapter 5. Imposture and Allustion in he Picaresque Maqāmah; Conclusion; Appendix: Anagnorisis in Arabic Falsafah; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.