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, Shkir

Scherzhafter bad bei Ab Nuws

Muslim b. al-Wald und bad

Ibn al-Mutazz

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

The Meaning of Mutanabb

Al-auhars Metrik

Der Teil und das Ganze: Die Autoanthologie af Al-Dn Al-ills

Abd al-Räm al-Abbs (al-Sayyid Abd al-Räm)

Semitic Studies, Arabic Linguistics

Studies in Neo-Aramaic (Introduction)

Peculiarities of the Verbal System of Senya within the Framework of Northeastern Neo-Aramaic (NENA)

The Modern Assyrians - Name and Nation

A South-Arabian Bronze Vessel (with Ilse Lichtenstadter)

Ibn Khaldn as a Historical Linguist with an Excursus on the Question of Ancient gf

The Beginnings of Caseless Arabic

The Etymology of Muqarnas: Some Observations

Jurisprudence, Juridical Rhetorics

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

Qawid as a Genreof Legal Literature

Structuring the Law: Remarks on the Furq Literature

"Genres" in the Kitb al-Luqta of Ibn Rushds Bidyat Al-Mujtahid wa-Nihyat al-Muqtäid

adal bei ä-f: Eine Interpretation seiner Beispielsammlung

Näm al-Dn al-f on the Incorrect Reading of the Ftia and Other Thought Experiments

Notes on the Index

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