In this text Kilito argues that genre - not authorship - is at the heart of classic Arabic literature. He examines love poetry and panegyric, the Prophet's Hadith and the literary anecdote, as well as such themes as memorization, plagiarism and forgery and the dream visions of th...e dead.
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Full details for this title
| Interest Age |
19+ years |
| Reading Age |
19+ years |
| Library of Congress |
Imitation in literature, Arabic literature - History and criticism, Originality in literature, History and criticism |
| NBS Text |
Literary Criticism |
| ONIX Text |
College/higher education;Professional and scholarly |
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Awards, Reviews & Star Ratings
| NZ Review |
Cooperson's is a bold translation. . . . This is the most important introduction to Arabic culture we have in any language, a book of riqor, intelligence, elegance, and uncanny charm.--Michael Beard, Co-editor of Edebiyat: The Journal of Middle Eastern Literatures |
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Author's Bio
Abdelfattah Kilito, professor in the department of French at Muhammad V University in Rabat, Morocco, has published extensively on Arabic literature. He has been a visiting scholar at the Ecole des Hautcs Etudes en Science Sociales, the College de France, and Harvard University. In I 989 he was awarded the Grand Prix du Maroc. Michael Cooperson teaches at the University of California at Los Angeles and is the author of Classic Arabic Biography: The Heirs of the Prophets in the Age of al-Ma'mun.
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