TY - BOOK ID - 77932777 TI - Classical Arabic humanities in their own terms : festschrift for Wolfhart Heinrichs on his 65th birthday AU - Cooperson, Michael. AU - Heinrichs, Wolfhart. PY - 2008 SN - 1281937401 9786611937409 904742381X 9789047423812 9789004165731 9004165738 9781281937407 6611937404 PB - Boston : Brill, DB - UniCat KW - Arabic philology. KW - Civilization, Arab. KW - Arab civilization KW - Civilization, Semitic KW - Islamic civilization KW - Arabic literature KW - Philologie arabe KW - LitteĢrature arabe KW - Civilisation arabe KW - History and criticism KW - Histoire et critique KW - Heinrichs, Wolfhart. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77932777 AB - The volume brings together approaches to different elements of Arabic-Islamic civilization, mainly in the areas of linguistics, literature, literary theory, and prosody, but also including religion, ritual, economics, and zoology. Contributions also touch upon the adjacent areas of the Old Iranian, Persian, Greek and Byzantine written traditions. Some take as their points of departure specific Arabic words (cat, giraffe) or morphemes; others explore literary genres, subgenres (oration, ode, macaronic poem, travel narrative) or figures within them (the trickster, the devil). Cultural concepts such as wishing, gift-giving or discourse are treated, as are aspects of broader phenomena, such as the role of gender in dream interpretation or the relative merits of luxury goods and mass-produced commodities. ER -