Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature

876 Pages·1998·52.64 MB·English

by  Julie Scott Meisami

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF
ARABIC LITERATURE

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF
ARABIC LITERATURE
Volume 1
Edited by
Julie Scott Meisami
and
Paul Starkey
London and New York
First published 1998
by Routledge
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ISBN 0-415-18571-8 (vol. 1)
ISBN 0-415-18572-6 (vol. 2)
ISBN 0-415-06808-8 (set)
Contents
List of contributors
vi
Introduction
x
List of abbreviations
xiii
English transliteration system
xvii
Volume 1: entries A-J
1-420
Volume 2: entries K-Z
421-829
Glossary
830
Chronological tables
835
Index
842
Contributors
Kamal Abu-Deeb William M. Brinner
School of Oriental and University of California, Berkeley
African Studies, London
Pierre Cachia
Farida Abu-Haidar Columbia University
London
Giovanni Canova
University of Venice
Roger Allen
University of Pennsylvania
M.G. Carter
University of Oslo
Lourdes Alvarez
Bard College, New York
Peter Clark
British Council, London
Mona T. Amyuni
American University of Beirut Lawrence I. Conrad
Wellcome Institute, London
Ali Asani
Harvard University Miriam Cooke
Duke University, North Carolina
Aziz al-Azmeh
Institute of Advanced Study, Berlin John Cooper
University of Cambridge
Thomas Bauer
Michael Cooperson
University of Erlangen, Germany
University of California, Los Angeles
Constance E. Berkley
Francesca Maria Corrao
Vassar College, New York
Oriental Institute, University ofN aples
Marcel Bois Jack A. Crabbs, Jr
Algeria California State University, Fullerton
Marilyn Booth Elton L. Daniel
University of Illinois University of Hawaii
Gert Borg Francois de Blois
University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands Royal Asiatic Society, London
C.E. Bosworth Ed C.M. de Moor
University of Manchester University ofNijmegen, The Netherlands
Issa J. Boullata Jean Dejeux
McGill University *
Contributors
Rina Drory Philip F. Kennedy
Tel Aviv University New York University
Peter G. Emery Hilary Kilpatrick
Sultan Qaboos University, Oman Lausanne
Gerhard Endress R.A. Kimber
Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany University of St Andrews
Alexander Knysh
Jean Fontaine
Tunisia University of Exeter
Bassam K. Frangieh Hermann Landolt
Yale University McGill University
A. Giese Oliver Leaman
Arlington, Massachusetts Liverpool John Moores University
Lois A. Giffen Stefan Leder
University of Utah Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg,
Germany
Michael Glunz
Switzerland James E. Lindsay
Colorado State University
Walid Hamarneh
Ulrich Marzolph
University of Texas at Austin
Enzyklopiidie des Miirchens, G6ttingen
Parveen Hasanali
J.S. Meisami
St Thomas University, Canada
University of Oxford
Wolfhart P. Heinrichs
M. Mikhail
Harvard University
New York University
C. Hillenbrand James E. Montgomery
University of Edinburgh
University of Cambridge
R. Hillenbrand Shmuel Moreh
University of Edinburgh Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan
Hassan Hilmy R.L. Nettler
Hassan II University, Casablanca Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies
John O. Hunwick Ian R. Netton
Northwestern University University of Leeds
R. Husni C. Nijland
University of Durham Netherlands Institute for the Near East
Robert Irwin M.R. Nourallah
School of Oriental and African Studies, London University of Westminster
Renate Jacobi Robin C. Ostle
Freie Universitiit, Berlin University of Oxford
vii
Contributors
Nick Pelham M.I. Shoush
BBC World Service University of Edmonton
Carl Petry P.J. Sluglett
Northwestern University University of Utah
D. Pinault Pieter Smoor
Santa Clara University, California Institute for Modem Near
Eastern Studies, University ofA msterdam
Wadad al-Qac;li
University of Chicago Reuven Snir
University of Haifa
B. Radtke
Rijksuniversiteit of Utrecht F. Sobieroj
Friedrich-Schiller-Universitiit, lena
D.M. Reid
Georgia State University Sasson Somekh
Tel Aviv University
D.S. Richards
University of Oxford Abdul-Nabi Staif
University of Damascus
Lutz Richter-Bernburg
Leipzig University Paul Starkey
University of Durham
A. Rippin
University of Calgary Willem Stoetzer
University of Leiden
Geoffrey Roper
Yasir Suleiman
Cambridge University Library
University of Edinburgh
Everett K. Rowson
Shawkat M. Toorawa
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
RRAALL, University of Mauritius
J.Sadan
Ahmad Ubaydli
Tel Aviv University
CMES, University of Cambridge
Philip C. Sadgrove
Geert Jan H. van Gelder
University of Manchester
University of Groningen
Raymond P. Scheindlin Wiebke Walther
lewish Theological Seminary ofA merica, Eberhard Karls University, Tiibingen
New York
David J. Wasserstein
Gregor Schoeler Tel Aviv University
Orientalisches Seminar, University of Basel
Otfried Weintritt
Tilman Seidensticker Albert Ludwigs University, Freiburg im
Friedrich Schiller University, lena Breisgau
David Semah Bernard Weiss
* University of Utah
John L. Sharpe Owen Wright
William R. Perkins Library, Duke University, School of Oriental and
North Carolina African Studies, London
viii
Contributors
MichaeIJ.L. Young K. Zebiri
* School of Oriental and
African Studies, London
M. Zakeri
Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Germany * The contributor is now deceased
ix