Frontispiece (A Portrait of the Scholar as a Young Man)

Foreword by Michael Cooperson

Introductory Editorial Remarks

General issues

Literaturtheorie

Einfuhrung

Philology

The Classification of the Sciences and the Consolidation of Philology in Classical Islam

Literary Theory: The Problem of its Efficacy

Poetik, Rhetorik, Literaturkritik, Metrik und Reimlehre

Rhetorical Figures

Klassisch-arabische Theorien dichterischer Rede

Prosimetrical Genres in Classical Arabic Literature

Die altarabische Qa??de als Dichtkunst

Authority in Arabic Poetry

“Manierismus” in der Arabischen Literatur

Obscurity in Classical Arabic Poetry

Modes of Existence of the Poetry in the Arabian Nights

Early Ornate Prose and the Rhetorization of Poetry in Arabic Literature

Na?d

Terms

Isti??rah and Bad?? and their Terminological Relationship in Early Arabic Literary Criticism

Paired Metaphors in Mu?dath Poetry

On the Genesis of the Haqiqa-Majaz Dichotomy

“Takhy?l” and its Traditions

Rose Versus Narcissus. Observations on an Arabic Literary Debate

Notes on the Index

Index of Classical Authors, Selected Book Titles, and Key Terms