Hinrich Biesterfeldt is a retired Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. He received his PhD in 1970 in Göttingen. He is the author of books and articles on Arabic literature and the history of the sciences in Islam. Together with Sebastian Günther, he is the editor of the series Islamic History and Civilization.

Alma Giese is an Arabist who received her PhD in 1980 in Giessen, Germany; a translator of numerous works from classical Arabic literature into German; and the widow of Wolfhart Heinrichs.

Frontispiece (Portrait of the Scholar as a Young Man)

Foreword by Michael Cooperson

Introductory Editorial Remarks

Authors

Ta`abbäa Sharran, Goethe, Sh¿kir

Scherzhafter bad¿¿ bei Ab¿ Nuw¿s

Muslim b. al-Wal¿d und bad¿¿

Ibn al-Mu¿tazz

Dead Garments, Poor Nobles, and a Handsome Youth: Notes on a Poem by al-¿anawbar¿

The Meaning of Mutanabb¿

Al-¿auhar¿s Metrik

Der Teil und das Ganze: Die Autoanthologie ¿af¿ Al-D¿n Al-¿ill¿s

¿Abd al-Rä¿m al-¿Abb¿s¿ (al-Sayyid ¿Abd al-Rä¿m)

Semitic Studies, Arabic Linguistics

Studies in Neo-Aramaic (Introduction)

Peculiarities of the Verbal System of Sen¿ya within the Framework of Northeastern Neo-Aramaic (NENA)

The Modern Assyrians - Name and Nation

A South-Arabian Bronze Vessel (with Ilse Lichtenstadter)

Ibn Khald¿n as a Historical Linguist with an Excursus on the Question of Ancient g¿f

The Beginnings of Caseless Arabic

The Etymology of Muqarnas: Some Observations

Jurisprudence, Juridical Rhetorics

On the Figurative (majâz) in Muslim Interpretation and Legal Hermeneutics

Qaw¿¿id as a Genreof Legal Literature

Structuring the Law: Remarks on the Fur¿q Literature

"Genres" in the Kit¿b al-Luqta of Ibn Rushd¿s Bid¿yat Al-Mujtahid wa-Nih¿yat al-Muqtäid

¿adal bei ä-¿¿f¿: Eine Interpretation seiner Beispielsammlung

Näm al-D¿n al-¿¿f¿ on the Incorrect Reading of the F¿ti¿a and Other Thought Experiments

Notes on the Index

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