Myths, historical archetypes and symbolic figures in Arabic literature : towards a new hermeneutic approach ; proceedings of the International Symposium in Beirut, June 25th - June 30th, 1996 / ed. by Angelika Neuwirth, Birgit Embaló, Sebastian Günther, Maher Jarrar. Stuttgart [u.a.] : Steiner [in Komm.], 1999
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Titelblatt
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Introduction Angelika Neuwirth
Myth-Generating Experience
Myths Recollected
Historical Archetypes
III. Trial and Debate
'Debate With Them In The Better Way' The Constructuion of a Qurʾānic Commonplace Jane Dammen McAuliffe
Language On Trial, Religion At Stake? Trial Scenes in Some Classical Arabic Texts and the Hermeneutic Problems Involved Johann Christoph Bürgel
Adab Standing Trial - Whose Norms Should Rule Society? The Case of al-Ḥarīrī's 'al-Maqāmah al-Ramlīyah' Angelika Neuwirth
Animals Debating In Modern Arabic Narrative Abdo Abboud
Trials And The Trial Ṣunʿallāh Ibrāhīm, Franz Kafka etc. Hartmut Fähndrich
IV. Transgression and the Strife for Knowledge and Fulfillment
Stalking Iblīs: In Search Of An Islamic Theodicy Whitney S. Bodman
Iblīs In The Poems Of Abū Nuwās Gregor Schoeler
The Devil And Deviltry In Some Arabic Fiction At The Turn Of The Century Robert B. Campbell
Wa-Hākadhā Kāna Ka-Iblīs Satan and Social Reform in a Novel by Salīm al-Bustānī (Bint al-ʿaṣr, 1875) Stephan Guth
Hostile Brothers In Transformation An Archetypal Conflict Figuring in Classical and Modern Arabic Literature Sebastian Günther
V. Redemptive Narrating
The Ḥakawātī In Contemporary Arabic Theatre The Re-Emergence of an Old Pattern of Communication Friederike Pannewick
A Tale Of Two Redemptions A Comparative Analysis of Ṭāhā Ḥusayn's The Days and Muḥammad Shukrī's For Bread Alone Stefan Wild
Narration Against Transitoriness And Temporality Mythical Time Structure in Idwār al-Kharrāṭ's Works Andreas Pflitsch
VI. Recollection of Coherence - Re-Ensuring Memory
Al-Madāʾinī's Version Of Qiṣṣat Al-Shūrā The Paradigmatic Character of Historical Narration Stefan Leder
The Case Of An Exemplary Of Social Coherence Observations on the Evolution of the Concept of Futūwah in Arabic Literature and History Louis Pouzet
Historical Images Of Al-Andalus And Of Andalusians Manuela Marin
A Myth Of Arab Nationalism Fayṣal b. al-Ḥusayn in Amīn al-Rayḥānī's Naḥnū wa-Ḥārūn al-Rashīd - A Historical Approach Jens-Martin Mehler
VII. The Journey towards Fulfillment
Symbolic Figures
VIII. The City: Space of Desire and Threat
Space As A Metaphor In Alf Laylah wa-Laylah The Archetypal City Richard van Leeuwen
Dream Towns Of Islam Geography in Arabic Oneirocritical Works Geert Jan Van Gelder
Constantinople Through Arab Eyes A mythology Nadia M. El-Cheikh
The Invisible - Visible City Topograohy, History and the Mind in ʿAlī Mubārak Nadia Al-Bagdadi
The New Jerusalem By Faraḥ Anṭūn From the Mythical City to the Modern City Social Project and Literary Project Zaineb Ben Lagha
ʿAmmūriyyah As A Female Archetype Deconstruction of a Mythical Subtext from Abū Tammām to Jabrā Ibrāhīm Jabrā / ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Munīf Heiko Wimmen
The City, Mythical Images And Their Deconstruction The Image of Beirut in Contemporary Works of Arabic Literature Birgit Embalo
Between Reality And Myth Ilyās Khūrī's Wounded Beirut Mona Takieddine Amyuni
About The Authors
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