The Arabic Fable : An Inventory of Short Stories Featuring Speaking Animals and Other Nonhuman Characters in Premodern Arabic Literature / Ulrich Marzolph.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marzolph, Ulrich, author.

Series:

Global Arabic Literary Cultures ; 3.

Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025.

Global Arabic Literary Cultures ; 3

Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025

Language:

Arabic

English

Subjects (All):

Art--History.

Art.

Literature and cultural studies.

Middle East and Islamic Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (443 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

An Inventory of Short Stories Featuring Speaking Animals and Other Nonhuman Characters in Premodern Arabic Literature

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Language Note:

English and Arabic

Summary:

The present book is the first attempt to provide a representative inventory of fables documented in premodern Arabic literature. It surveys a total of 330 numbered fables with short summaries, exhaustive references, and concise comments.

Contents:

Preface

Abbreviations and Concordance of Numbers

Introduction

1 Fables in Premodern Arabic Literature: Two Strands of Tradition

2 Towards a Definition of the Arabic Fable

3 Data Relevant for the History of the Arabic Fable

4 Fables in Authored Literature

5 Content Characteristics of the Arabic Fable Proper

Annotated Bibliography

Inventory of Fables in Premodern Arabic Literature

I. Scattered Fables (SF; nos.1–160)

II. Fables in Literature (nos.161–330)

A. Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ, Kalīla wa-Dimna ( KD; nos.161–208)

B. Qiṣṣat Jalīʿād wa-Shīmās (JSh; nos.209–217)

C. Qiṣṣat Malik Balāsh ( MB; nos.218–221)

D. Bilawhar wa-Būdhāsaf ( BB; no.222)

E. Ibn al-Habbāriyya, al-Ṣādiḥ wa-’l-bāghim ( ṢB; nos.223–229)

F. al-Kalāʿī, Iḥkām ṣanʿat al-kalām ( KI; nos.230–232)

G. Ibn Ẓafar al-Ṣiqillī, Sulwān al-muṭāʿ fī ʿudwān al-atbāʿ ( SM; nos.233–241)

H. Qiṣṣat Ḥayqār ( QḤ; nos.242–257)

I. Amthāl Luqmān al-ḥakīm ( AL; nos.258–289)

J. Ibn ʿArabshāh, Fākihat al-khulafāʾ wa-mufākat al-ẓurafāʾ (FKh; nos.290–313)

K. Alf Layla wa-layla ( ALL; nos.314–329)

III. Supplement (S; no.330)

IV. Appendix: Concordance for the Fables in the Manuscripts Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, arabe 3463 and arabe 3464

Appendix: Arabic Texts of the Scattered Fables (Selection)

Bibliography

Concordance of References to Major Reference Works, Studies, and Translations

Index of Primary Sources (Arabic Authors and Works)

List of Primary Sources (Arabic Authors and Works) in Chronological Sequence

Index of Non-Human Characters Acting in the Fables

General Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004729049

9004729046

OCLC:

1512318738

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004729049 DOI