The Arabic Fable : An Inventory of Short Stories Featuring Speaking Animals and Other Nonhuman Characters in Premodern Arabic Literature /

The Arabic Fable : An Inventory of Short Stories Featuring Speaking Animals and Other Nonhuman Characters in Premodern Arabic Literature /

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Main Author: Marzolph, Ulrich (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English
Arabic

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Global Arabic Literary Cultures ; 3.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025.

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Art History.
Literature and cultural studies.
Middle East and Islamic Studies.

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Call Number: N5305

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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations and Concordance of Numbers
  • Introduction
  • 1 Fables in Premodern Arabic Literature: Two Strands of Tradition
  • 2 Towards a Definition of the Arabic Fable
  • 3 Data Relevant for the History of the Arabic Fable
  • 4 Fables in Authored Literature
  • 5 Content Characteristics of the Arabic Fable Proper
  • Annotated Bibliography
  • Inventory of Fables in Premodern Arabic Literature
  • I. Scattered Fables (SF; nos.1-160)
  • II. Fables in Literature (nos.161-330)
  • A. Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ, Kalīla wa-Dimna ( KD; nos.161-208)
  • B. Qiṣṣat Jalīʿād wa-Shīmās (JSh; nos.209-217)
  • C. Qiṣṣat Malik Balāsh ( MB; nos.218-221)
  • D. Bilawhar wa-Būdhāsaf ( BB; no.222)
  • E. Ibn al-Habbāriyya, al-Ṣādiḥ wa-'l-bāghim ( ṢB; nos.223-229)
  • F. al-Kalāʿī, Iḥkām ṣanʿat al-kalām ( KI; nos.230-232)
  • G. Ibn Ẓafar al-Ṣiqillī, Sulwān al-muṭāʿ fī ʿudwān al-atbāʿ ( SM; nos.233-241)
  • H. Qiṣṣat Ḥayqār ( QḤ; nos.242-257)
  • I. Amthāl Luqmān al-ḥakīm ( AL; nos.258-289)
  • J. Ibn ʿArabshāh, Fākihat al-khulafāʾ wa-mufākat al-ẓurafāʾ (FKh; nos.290-313)
  • K. Alf Layla wa-layla ( ALL; nos.314-329)
  • III. Supplement (S; no.330)
  • IV. Appendix: Concordance for the Fables in the Manuscripts Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, arabe 3463 and arabe 3464
  • Appendix: Arabic Texts of the Scattered Fables (Selection)
  • Bibliography
  • Concordance of References to Major Reference Works, Studies, and Translations
  • Index of Primary Sources (Arabic Authors and Works)
  • List of Primary Sources (Arabic Authors and Works) in Chronological Sequence
  • Index of Non-Human Characters Acting in the Fables
  • General Index.