Classical Arabic Humanities in Their Own Terms: Festschrift for Wolfhart Heinrichs on his 65th Birthday Presented by His Students and Colleagues.

Leiden: Brill, 2007.

The volume combines approaches to different elements of Arabic-Islamic literature, mainly in linguistics, literature, literary theory and prosody, but also includes religion, ritual, economy and zoology. Contributions also touch on the neighboring areas of ancient Iranian, Persian, Greek and Byzantine writing cultures. Some contributions take a particular Arabic word (cat, giraffe) or morphem as an approach; others examine literary genres (speech, qaṣīda, multilingual poem, travel description) or their characters (trickster, Satan). Cultural concepts such as desire, gift or discourse are treated, as well as aspects of extensive phenomena, such as the role of the giver in dream interpretation or the respective advantages of luxury and mass goods.