| VOLUME 2 Number 2 July 1999 Ilh m Man r's Il Hib : s.1¯ra l and Hib f.1¯ rih.lat al-jasad: ra th niyya Michelle Hartman 141 Litt rature 'Beure' et Langues en Contact dans B ni ou le paradis priv d'Azouz Begag Mohamed Meouak 159 Rama and the Dragon, by Edw r al-Kharrat, translated by Ferial J. Ghazoul 167 A Social Psychological Interpretation of Y s f Idr.1¯s's 'Snobbism' Nedal al-Mousa 173 Characters Narrate Their Own Tragic Ends: a study of the endings of five novels by Naj.1¯b Mah.f z. Mahmud Ghanayim 177 Die Autobiographie als Karrierebaustein: Die Abhandlung des Q g. renprinzen E'tez. d as-salt.ane ber die 'Falschen Propheten' Ulrich Marzolph 189 The Arab Artists Role in Society. Three Case Studies: Naguib Mahfouz, Tayeb Salih and Elias Khoury Mona Takieddine Amyuni 203 VOLUME 2 Number 1 January 1999 The Era of al-Mutanabb—Proceedings of the Eighth Symposium on Classical Arabic Poetry (1995) Essays in Honour of John N. Mattock Edited by James E. Montgomery Introduction James E. Montgomery 3 Al-Mutanabb, the Long and the Short of It Al-Mutanabb's Encumbering Trifles Geert Jan van Gelder 5 Al-Mutanabb and the Critics Julie Scott Meisami 21 Genres, Quasi-Genres and Parodies The Silken Horsecloths Shed their Tears Andr s H mori 43 Ab Fir s's Veneric Urj zah Muzdawijah James E. Montgomery 61 Third and Fourth Century Bleeding Poetry Julia Ashtiany Bray 75 History and Panegyric La bataille de Zall qah (Sagrajas) dans la po sie d'lbn Khaf jah (1050-1139) Arie Schippers 93 Demonolatrous Verses Les deux po mes autobiographiques du d mon Khaytac r dans “L'Ep tre du pardon” (Ris lat al-ghufr n) d'Abu l-cAl al-Macarr. J. C. B rgel 109 Some Demon Muse: structure and allusion in al-Hamadh n's Maq ma Iblsiyya Philip F. Kennedy 115 VOLUME 1 Number 2 July 1998 In Honour of Pierre Cachia and Malcolm Lyons In the Second Degree: fictional technique in at-Tanukhi's Al-Faraj bacd ash-shidda Daniel Beaumont 125 The Maqama of the Lion Jaakko H meen-Anttila 141 Sheherazade/Shahrazad: rereading the frame tale of the 1001 Nights Eva Sallis 153 A Structuralist Argument for the European Origin of cAla' ad-DIn wa-l-QindIl al-Mashur from Alf Layla wa-Layla Anja H nsch 169 'A Fairy Tale' by Ihsan cAbd al-Quddus Translated by Asma Afsaruddin 179 Nocturnes of an Insomniac Woman, by Rachid Boujedra Translated by Musa Al-Halool 183 Symbolism and Allegory in the Algerian Arabic Novel Debbie Cox 193 A Magic Journey: the admission of Palestinian fiction in Israel to the Arab world Mahmud Ghanayim 205 A Novel in the Form of an Ode: the power of Ghassan Kanafani's narrative in Ma tabaqqa lakum Wen-chin Ouyang 223 Recent Publications: Arabic literature Hilary Kilpatrick 233 Index, VOLUME 1, 1998 247 VOLUME 1 Number 1 January 1998 In Honour of Pierre Cachia and Malcolm Lyons Note from the Editors 5 Isnads and Models of Heroes: Abu Zubayd al-Tai, Tanukhi's sundered lovers and Abu 'l-'Anbas al-Saymari Julia Ashtiany Bray 7 "There is a Jahiz for Every Age": narrative construction and intertextuality in al-Hamadhani's Maqamat Mohamed-Salah Omri 31 "Lovers' Quarter" by Najib Mahfuz Translated by Roger Allen 47 Transcendence and Immanence: self and other in Baha' Tahir's short stories Sophie Bennett 75 The Debate of Pearl-diving and Oil-wells: a poetic commentary on socio-economic change in the Gulf of the 1930s Clive D. Holes 87 XXVI. Deutscher Orientalistentag, Leipzig, September 1995: theoretical approaches to Arabic literature—new perspectives and projects Hilary Kilpatrick 113 |