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GENERAL

  • Fusul I, 2 & 3 Trends in Contemporary Literary Criticism
             IV, 1 Literary Criticism and the Humanities
             VI, 1 & 2 Our critical heritage Commmitment: Al-Mawqif al-adabi 9 & 10 (Feb. 1972).
     Criticism in cultural politics: Al-Mawqif al-adabi 71 (Mar. 1977): 49
     Crisis in criticism, Al-Mawqif al-adabi 72 (Apl. 1977): 139.
     Criticism in Syria,  Al-Mawqif al-adabi 78 (Oct. 1977): 26
     Poetic criticism     Al-Mawqif al-adabi 79 (Nov. 1977): 42
     Realism, Al-Mawqif al-adabi 93 (Jan 1979): 5
     Expressionism, Al-Mawqif al-adabi 88 (Aug. 1978): 94
  •  `Abbud,  Hanna, "Fi al-naqd al-adabi al-hadith," Al-Mawqif al-adabi 11 (Mar. 1972), 115-120. 
  • `Abdel-Hai,  M.  "Night and Silence:  Experience  and  Language  in Romanticism  and  Mysticism,"  Journal  of  Arabic Literature  VI (1975), 107-124. 
  • Abu Deeb, Kamal, "Studies in Arabic Literary Criticism: The Concept of Organic Unity," Edebiyat Vol. 2 no. 1 (1977), 57-90. 
  • ---------------, "Hawla Kitab Al-Istishraq li-Edward Said," Mawaqif 40 (Wint. 1981), 64-74. 
  • ---------------, "Al-Jurjani's classification of isti`ara,  Journal of Arabic Literature II (1971), 48-75. 
  • Abu Sinna,  Muhammad Ibrahim,  Tajarib naqdiyya wa-qadaya adabiyya, Cairo: Dar al-Ma`arif, 1986. 
  • Al-`Aksh, Munir, "Al-Lugha al-shi`riyya:  min al-wasila ila al-iha' ghayr al-mahdud," Mawaqif 7 (Jan.-Feb. 1970), 239-247.
  • `Allush, Sa`id. Mukawwinat al-adab al-muqaran fi al-`alam al-`Arabi Beirut: Al-Sharika al-`Arabiyya li-al-kitab, 1987. 
  • Almagor,  Ella,  "The  early meaning of majaz and the nature of Abu `Ubayda's  exegesis,"  Studia  Orientalia  memoriae  D.H.   Baneth dedicata, jerusalem, 1979, 307-26. 
  • `Awad, Lewis, Dirasat fi al-nadq wa-al-adab, Cairo: n.p., 1963. 
  • ------------,  Al-Thawra wa-al-adab,  Cairo:  n.p.,  1967. 
  • Bashir,  Munir,  "Fi  Manhajiyya  al-isnad wa-al-taqaddum `inda al- `Arab," Mawaqif 43 (Aut. 1981), 47-59. 
  • Beeston,  A.F.L.,  "A Gospel Echo in  Arabic  Poetry,"  Journal  of Arabic Literature IX (1978), 41-42. 
  • Bencheikh,  Jamal  Eddine,  Le poetique arabe:  essai sur les voies d'une creation, Paris, 1975. 
  • Daya,  Muhammad Ridwan,  Tarikh  al-naqd  al-adabi  fi  'l-Andalus, Beirut, 1968. 
  • Deif,  Ahmad, Essai sur le lyricisme et la critique litteraire chez les arabes, Paris, 1917. 
  • Fahndrich, Hartmut,  "Compromising the Caliph:  Analysis of several versions  of  an Anecdote about Abu Dulama and al-Mansur," Journal of Arabic Literature VIII (1977), 36-47.
  • van Gelder, Geert Jan, "Persons and Texts/Texts as Persons in Classical Arabic Literature," in Conscious Voices: Concepts of Writing in the Middle East, ed. Stephan Guth, Priska Furrer, & Johann Christoph Burgel, Beirut in Kommission bei Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart, 1999 [Beuruter Texte und Studien 71], pp.237-53.
  • --------------------------, “Forbidden Firebrands: Frivolous iqtibas (Quotation from the Qur’an) according to Medieval Arab Critics,” Quaderni di studi arabi20-21 ((2002-2003): 3-16.
  • Hafiz, Sabri, "Qadiyyat al-manhaj fi al-naqd al-`Arabi al-hadith,"   Al-Ma`rifa, Aug. 1972.
  • Hafiz, Sabri, "Mushkilat al-manhaj fi al-naqd al-`Arabi al-hadith,"   Fusul, Apl. 1981.
  • Hamori, Andras,  "Form and Logic in Some Medieval Arabic   Poems," Edebiyat Vol. 2 no. 2  (1977), 163-172.
  • Isma`il, `Izz al-din, Al-Usus al-jamaliyya fi 'l-naqd al-`Arabi,   Cairo, 1955.
  • Isma`il, Sidqi, "Al-Hiss al-jamahiri wa riya' al-naqd   al-adabi," Al-Mawqif al-adabi 1 (May-Oct. 1971), 3-4.
  • --------------, "Hawla qadiyyat al-mastawa al-`alami wa-al-adab al-`Arabi al-mu`asir," Al-Mawqif al-adabi 11 (Mar. 1972), 3-11.
  • Istayf, `Abd al-Nabi, "Nahwa Tahdid li-Mafhum al-Naqd al-Adabi," Mawaqif 47-48 (Spr.-Sum. 1983), 162-167.
  • Al-Jamal, Jamal, "Nazariyya `Arabiyya li-al-naqd al-adabi: ifti`al am-fa`aliyya`" Afaq `Arabiyya 14 no. 3 (1989), 134-5.
  • Al-Jamali, Hafiz, "Al-Naqd fi al-Fikr al-`Arabi," Mawaqif 43 (Aut. 1981), 24-46.
  • Al-Khatibi, `Abd al-Kabir, "Al-Jins fi al-Qur'an al-karim," Mawaqif 49 (Wint. 1984), 5-20.
  • Khattab, E.A. "Assimilation amd Transformation: Browning's `Muleykeh'," Journal of Arabic Literature XV (1984), 45-57. 
  • Khuri, Ilyas, "Al-Naqd wa-al-Nass al-Naqdi," Mawaqif 43 (Aut. 1981), 11-23.
  • Al-Mani`,   Najib,   "Al-Hurriyya  wa-al-`Abudiyya  fi  al-ufq  al- lughawi," Mawaqif 7 (Jan.-Feb. 1970), 232-238. 
  • Murqus,  Ilyas,  "Muqaddimat fi naqd al-fikr al-qawmi al-`Arabi al- sa'id," Mawaqif 40 (Wint. 1981), 117-144. 
  • "Al-Naqd al-`Arabi wa-afaq al-naqd al-jadid," Mawaqif 41-42  (Spr.- Sum.  1981),  13-38. 
  • <Discussion  between  Samir Sayigh,  Khalida Sa`id, Kamal Abu Deeb, and Ilyas Khuri>.  Sa`id, Khalida,  Harakiyyat al-ibda`:  Dirasat fi al-adab al-`Arabi al-hadith, Beirut: Dar al-`Awda, 1979. 
  • Salih,  Hashim  "Nahwa fikr naqdi `Arabi," Mawaqif 37-38 (Spr.-Sum. 1980), 184-187. 
  • Sa`b,  Henri Farid,  "Qira`a fi `Madha suni`at bi al-dhahab,  madha fu`ilat bi al-warda," <about I.A. Richards >, 
    Mawaqif 10 (Jul.-Aug. 1970), 123-134.
  • Shuhayd,  Jamal,  "Al-Naqd  al-adabi  al-hadith  kama yarahu Lucien Goldman," Mawaqif 32 (Sum. 1975), 79-91. 
  • Staif,  `Abd  al-nabi,  "The  Quest  for  Freedom  in Modern Arabic Literary Criticism," Journal of Arabic Literature Vol.  26 nos 1 & 2 (June 1995): 165-74. 
  • Tahhan, Raymun,  Mustalah al-adab al-=intiqadi al-mu`asir,  Beirut: Dar al-Kitab al-Lubnani, 1984. 
  • Tibi,  Bassam, "Khawatir hawl al-naqd," Mawaqif 4 (Mar.-june 1969), 141-143. 
  • Yunus, `Ali, Al-Naqd al-adabi wa-qadaya al-shakl al-musiqi,  Ciaor: Al-Hay'a al-Misriyya al-`Amma li-al-kitab, 1985. 
  • al-Yusufi, Muhammad Lutfi, "Bayan `an al-naqd," Akhbar al-adab 189 (23 Feb. 1997): 14-15.

BY COUNTRY

  • `Asi, Michel, "Al-Naqd fi Lubnan," Al-Mawqif al-adabi April 1973, 177-183.
  • Faysal, Samar Ruhi, "Nuqqad al-riwayah fi Suriya; fa`aliyyat al- naqd al-muqaran," Al-Mawqif al-adabi 133 (May 1982): 39-62.
  • Al-Hawari, Ahmad Ibrahim, Masadir naqd al-riwaya fi al adab al-`Arabi al-hadith fi Misr, Cairo: Dar al-Ma`arif, 1979.   
  • Khirmash, Muhammad, Al-Naqd al-adabi al-hadith fi al-Maghrib (1900- 1956), Al-Dar al-bayda': Ifriqiya al-Sharq, 1988.

BY CRITIC

  • ABU DEEB, KAMAL Salih, Fakhri, "Hiwar ma`a al-naqid Kamal Abu Deeb," Afaq `Arabiyya Vol. 11 no. 7 (1986), 80-91.
  • ABU `UBAYDA Almagor, Ella, "The early meaning of majaz and the nature of Abu `Ubayda's exegesis,"  Studia Orientalia memoriae D.H. Baneth dedicata, jerusalem, 1979, 307-26.
  • ADUNIS Al-`Alim, Mahmud Amin, Interview discussing Adunis, Afaq `Arabiyya  6 (June 1988), 122-25.
  • Boullata, Issa J., "Adonis: towards a new Arab culture," International Journal of Middle East Studies 20 no. 1 (Feb. 
      1988), 109-12.
  • Khouri,  Mounah A.,  "Criticism and the Heritage:  Adonis as an Advocate  of a New Arab Culture," Arab Civilization Challenges and responses: Studies in Honor of Dr.  Constantine Zurayk ed. George  N.  Atiyeh  and  Ibrahim  M.  Oweiss,  Albany:  State University of New York Press, 1988. 
  • Mubarak, Muhammad Rida, "Usus al-khatab al-hadathi," Afaq `Arabiyya Vol. 16 no. 8 (Aug. 1991), 80-87.
  • "Al-Thabit wa-al-mutahawwil" Al-Mawqif al-adabi 81 (Jan. 1978): 107.
  • AL-`ALIM, MAHMUD AMIN Al-`Alim, Mahmud Amin, Interview, Afaq `Arabiyya 6 (June 1988), 122-25. 
  • Salih, Fakhir, "Mahmud Amin al-`Alim,  min al-naqd al-waqi`i ila afaq al-tahlil al-nassi," Akhbar al-adab 205 (15 Jun. 1997): 14-15
  • AL-AMIDI, ABU AL-QASIM, AL-HASAN IBN BISHR
  • ----------------------, Al-Muwazana bayn shi`r Abi Tammam wa-al-Buhturi, Cairo, 1961, 1965.
  • Abu Hamda, M. `Ali, Abu al-Qasim al-Amidi wa-Kitab al-Muwazana, Beirut: 1969. 
  • Ajami, Mansour, The Alchemy of Glory, Washington: Three Continents Press, 1988, 31-5.
  • Hamarneh, Walid, "The Reception of Aristotle's Theory of POetry in Arab-Islamic Medieval Thought," Poetics East and West ed.  Dolezelova-Velingerova,  Toronto Semiotic Circle Monograph Series No. 4 [1988-89]: 183-201. 
  • Stetkevych, Suzanne Pinckney, "Abu Tammam fi "Muwazanat al-Amidi: Hasr al-mu'assassa al-naqdiyya li-shi`r albadi`," Ibda`AMIN, AHMAD   Brugman, J., An Introduction to the History of Modern Arabic Literature in Egypt, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1984,  387-93.
  • AL-`AQQAD,`ABBAS MAHMUD Al-`Aqqad, `Abbas Mahmud, in The Literature of Ideas in Egypt Vol. 1 ed. Louis Awad, Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1986, 166-178.
  • AL-ASHNANDANI, ABU `UTHMAN SA`ID IBN HARUN
  • -----------------------, Ma`ani al-shi`r, Damascus, 1969.
  • AL-`ASKARI, ABU HILAL AL-HASAN IBN `ABDALLAH
  • -----------------------, Diwan al-ma`ani, Cairo, 1952.
  • -----------------------, Kitab al-sina`atayn, Cairo, 1971.
  • Ajami, Mansour, The Alchemy of Glory, Washington: Three Continents Press, 1988, 41-7.
  • Bonebakker, S., "Notes on some old manuscripts of the Adab al-katib of Ibn Qutayba,  the Kitab al-sina`atyan of Al-`askari & Al-Mathal  al-sa'ir of Diya' al-din ibn Athir," Oriens 13-14 (1961), 159-174. 
  • Kanazi, George, "Abu Hilal al-`Askari's attitude towards poetry and poets," Journal of Semitic Studies 20 (1975), 73-81. 
  • --------------,  "Organic  unity  in the Kitab al-Sina`atayn of Abu Hilal al-`Askari," Semitics 3 (1973), 1-17. 
  • --------------, "The works of Abu Hilal al-`Askari," Arabica 22(1975), 61-70.
  • AL-ASMA`I, ABU SA`ID `ABD AL-MALIK
  • -----------------------, Fuhulat al-shu`ara', Cairo, 1953.
  • `AWAD, LOUIS Istaif, Abdu-Nabi, "Going beyond socialist realism, getting nowhere: Luwis `Awad's Cross-Cultural Encounter with the Other," in Tradition, Modernity, and  Post-Modernity in Arabic Literature: Essays in Honor of Professor Issa J.  Boullata, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2000, pp. 113-40.
  • -----------------, "Forging a new self, embracing the other: Modern Arabic Critical Theory and the West--Lewis `Awad," Middle Eastern LIteratures Vol. 5  no. 2 (July 2002): 161-80.
  • Khurshid, Faruq, "Ihbat al-kalimat," Al-`Arabi 329 (Apl. 1986), 103-8.
  • Mathee, Rudi, "Jamal al-Din al-Afghani and the Egyptian National  Debate," International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 21 no. 2 (May 1989), 151-69.
  • AL-BAQILLANI Bouman, J, Le conflit autour du Coran et la solution d'al- Baqillani, Amsterdam, 1959.
  • von Grunebaum, Gustave, A Tenth century document of  Arabic literary theory and criticism: the sections on poetry of al-Baqillani's I`jaz al-Qur'an , Chicago, 1950.     
  • DAYF, AHMAD Brugman, J., An Introduction to the History of Modern Arabic Literature in Egypt, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1984, 355-57.
  • FAKHURI, `UMAR Al-Mawqif al-adabi 2 no. 5 (Jul. 1972): 96.
  • AL-FARABI, ABU NASR MUHAMMAD
  • -----------------------, "Risala fi qawanin sina`at  al-shu`ara'," in Aristutalis, fann al-shi`r ed. `Abd al-Rahman Badawi, Cairo, 1953.
  • Hamarneh, Walid, "The Reception of Aristotle's Theory of POetry in Arab-Islamic Medieval Thought," Poetics East and West ed.  Dolezelova-Velingerova,  Toronto Semiotic Circle Monograph Series No. 4 [1988-89]: 183-201. 
  • NAJIB AL-HADDAD van Gelder,  Geert Jan,  "Najib Haddad's Essay on the Comparison of Arabic  and  European Poetry," in Tradition and Modernity in Arabic Language and Literature ed.  J.  M.  Smart, London: Curzon Press, 1996, pp. 144-52. 
  • AL-HAKIM, TAWFIQ Francis, Raymond, Aspects de la litterature arabe contemporaine Beirut: Dar al-Ma`aref, 1963, 273-278.
  • HAMMAD AL-RAWIYA Ibrahim, `Abd al-Hakim Mustafa, Mawqif al-naqd al-adabi min Hammad al-Rawiya, Cairo: Matba`at al-sa`ada, 1981.
  • HAQQI, YAHYA  Francis, Raymond, Aspects de la litterature arabe contemporaine Beirut: Dar al-Ma`aref, 1963, 291-303.
  • AL-HATIMI, ABU `ALI MUHAMMAD IBN AL-HASAN
  • -----------------------, Al-Risala al-Hatimiyya fi-ma wafaqa al-Mutanabbi fi shi`rihi kalama Aristu, Beirut, 1931.
  • -----------------------, Al-Risala al-mudiha fi dhikri sariqat Abi al-Tayyib al-Mutanabbi wa-saqiti shi`rihi, Beirut, 1965.
  • Bonebakker, Seeger A., "Sariqa and Formula: Three CHapters from Hatimi's Hilyat al-muhadara, in Annali dell'Istituto Unversitario Orientale Vol. 46 (1986), 367-89.
  • Sanni, Amidu, “The historical Encounter between al-Mutanabbi and al-Hatimi,” JAL XXV no. 2 (2004): 159-174.
  • HAYKAL, MUHAMMAD HUSAYN  Brugman, J., An Introduction to the History of Modern Arabic Literature in Egypt, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1984, 357-60.
  • Haykal, Muhammad Husayn, in The Literature of Ideas in Egypt Vol. 1 ed. Louis Awad, Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1986, 123-129. 
  • HILAL, MUHAMMAD GHUNAYMI Hafiz,  Sabri,  "Muhammad Ghunaymi Hilal naqidan," Al-Majalla Sept. 1968. 
  • HUSAYN, TAHA`Asfur,  Jabir,  Al-Maraya  al-mutajawirah:  dirasa  fi  naqd  Taha Husayn, Cairo, 1983. 
  • Brugman,  J.,  An Introduction to  the  History  of  Modern Arabic Literature in Egypt, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1984, 360-77. 
  • Husayn, Taha, in The Literature of Ideas in Egypt Vol.  1 ed. Louis Awad, Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1986, 130-53. 
  • `Ulbi,  Ahmad,  "Taha  Husayn fi mizan al-naqd al-`ilmi," Al-`Arabi (Sept. 1988), 26-30. 
  • Al-Musawi, <Muhsin Jasim, "Al-Muthaqqafun al-`Arab wa-al-istishraq: manhajiyya al-tanwir `inda Taha Husayn wa-mashru`  al-nahda,"  Al-Istishraq 4 (Feb. 1990), 4-14. 
  • IBN AL-ATHIR, DIYA` AL-DIN
  • -----------------------,  Al-Jami` al-kabir fi sina`at al-manzum min al-kalam wa-al-manthur, Baghdad, 1956. 
  • -----------------------,  Al-Mathal al-sa'ir fi adab al-katib wa-al- sha`ir, Cairo, 1959-62.  
     Ajami, Mansour, The Alchemy of Glory, Washington:  Three Continents Press, 1988, 85-6. 
  • Bonebakker, S., "Notes on some old manuscripts of the Adab al-katib of Ibn Qutayba,  the Kitab al-sina`atyan of Al-`Askari & Al-Mathal al-sa'ir of Diya' al-din ibn Athir," Oriens 13-14 (1961), 159-174. 
  • Makdisi,  George,  The  Rise of Humanism in Classical Islam and the Christian West, Edinburgh:  Edinburgh University Press, 1990, 355- 65. 
  • IBN FARIS Sanni,  Amidu,  "A Fourth Century Contribution to Literary  Theory: Ibn  Faris's  treatise  on  poetic  licenses,"  Journal  of Arabic Literature Vol.  XXIV no. 1 (March 1993): 11-20. 
  • IBN HAZM, `ALI IBN AHMAD
  • -----------------------,  Al-Tariq  li-hadd al-mantiq wa-al-madkhal ilayhi, Beirut, 1959. 
  • Ajami, Mansour, The Alchemy of Glory, Washington: Three Continents Press, 1988, 49-51.
  • IBN JINNI, ABU AL-FATH `UTHMAN
  • -----------------------, Al-Fasr fi sharh diwan al-Mutanabbi, Cairo,  n.d. 
  • IBN KHALDUN, `ABD AL-RAHMAN
  • ----------------------, Al-Muqaddima 4 vols. Cairo, 1962. trans. Rosenthal, New York, 1958.
  • IBN AL-MU`TAZZ, `ABDALLAH
  • ----------------------, Kitab al-badi`, London, 1935.
  • ----------------------, Tabaqat al-shu`ara', London, 1939. 
  • IBN QUTAYBA, ABU MUHAMMAD `ABDALLAH IBN MUSLIM
  • --------------------,  Introduction  au  Livre de la poesie et des poetes, trans. Gaudefroy-Demombynes, Paris, 1947.
  • ----------------------, Ma`ani al-shi`r, Haidarabad, 1948.
  • Bonebakker, S., "Notes on some old manuscripts of the Adab al-katib of Ibn Qutayba,  the Kitab al-sina`atyan of Al-`askari & Al-Mathal  al-sa'ir of Diya' al-din ibn Athir," Oriens 13-14 (1961), 159-174. 
  • Lecomte,  Gustave,  Ibn  Qutayba  (mort en 276/889):  l'homme,  son oeuvre, ses idees, Damascus, 1965. 
  • Stetkevych,  Jaroslav,  "Ibn Qutayba wa-ma bad`dahu:  al-qasida al-`Arabiyya  al-klassikiyya wa-al-awhuh al-balaghiyya li-al-risala,"  Ibda`
  • IBN RASHIQ, ABU `ALI AL-HASAN
  • ----------------------, Al-`Umda fi mahasin al-shi`r wa- adabihi wa-nadihi, Beirut, 1972.
  • Ajami, Mansour, The Alchemy of Glory, Washington: Three Continents Press, 1988, 69-77.
  • IBN RUSHD hAMARNEH, wALID, "tHE rECEPTION OF aRISTOTLE'S tHEORY OF poETRY IN aRAB-iSLAMIC mEDIEVAL tHOUGHT," pOETICS eAST AND wEST ED.  dOLEZELOVA-vELINGEROVA,  tORONTO sEMIOTIC cIRCLE mONOGRAPH sERIES nO. 4 [1988-89]: 183-201. 
  • IBN SALLAM Gamal,  Adel  Sulaiman,  "The Organizational Principles of Ibn Sallam's Tabaqat  al-shu`ara': A Reconsideration," in Tradition and Modernity in Arabic Language  and Literature ed.  J.  M.  Smart, London: Curzon Press, 1996, pp. 186-209. 
  • IBN SINA, ABU `ALI
  • ----------------------, "Fann al-shi`r min Kitab al-shifa`," in Aristutalis, fann al-shi`r, Cairo, 1953.     
  • Ajami, Mansour, The Alchemy of Glory, Washington: Three Continents Press, 1988, 54.
  • Hamarneh, Walid, "The Reception of Aristotle's Theory of POetry in Arab-Islamic Medieval Thought," Poetics East and West ed.  Dolezelova-Velingerova,  Toronto Semiotic Circle Monograph Series No. 4 [1988-89]: 183-201. 
  • IBN TABATABA, MUHAMMAD IBN AHMAD
  • ----------------------, `Iyar al0shi`r, Cairo, 1956.
  • Ajami, Mansour, The Alchemy of Glory, Washington: Three Continents Press, 1988, 13-17.
  • IBN WAHB AL-KATIB, ISHAQ IBN IBRAHIM
  • ----------------------, Al-Burhan fi wujuh al-bayan, Cairo, 1969.     
  • Ajami, Mansour, The Alchemy of Glory, Washington: Three Continents Press, 1988, 24-29.
  • IBN WAKI` AL-TANISI
  • ----------------------, Al-Munsif fi al-dalalat `ala sariqat al-Mutanabbi, Beirut. n.d.
  • AL-ISFAHANI, ABU AL-FARAJ Sawa, George Dimirti, Music Performance Practice in the Early `Abbasid Era 132-320 / AH 750-932 AD, Toronto: Pontifical  Institute of Medieval Studies, 1989.
  • ISMA`IL, SIDQI Al-Sham`a, Khaldun, "Sidqi Isma`il naqidan," Al-Mawqif al-adabi Oct.-Nov. 1972, 42-55.
  • JABRA, JABRA IBRAHIM Jabra, Jabra Ibrahim, Al-Fann wa-al-hilm wa-al-fi`l, Beirut: Al-Mu'assassa al-`Arabiyya li-al-dirasat wa-al-nashr, 1988.
  • AL-JAHIZ, `AMR IBN BAHR
  • ----------------------, Al-Bayan wa-al-tabyin, Cairo, 1946.
  • AL-JUMAHI, MUHAMMAD IBN SALLAM
  • ----------------------, Tabaqat fuhul al-shu`ara', Cairo 1952.     
  • AL-JURJANI, `ABD AL-QAHIR
  • ----------------------, Asrar al-balagha, Istanbul, 1945.
  • ----------------------, Dala'il al-i`jaz, Cairo, 1946.
  • Abu Deeb, Kamal, Al-Jurjani's Theory of Poetic Imagery, Warminster, England: Aris and Phillips, 1979.
  • Ajami, Mansour, The Alchemy of Glory, Washington: Three Continents  Press, 1988, 87-99.
  • Larkin, Margaret, "The Inimitability of the Qur'an," Religion & Literature 20.1 (Spr. 1988), 31-48.
  • AL-JURJANI, `ALI IBN `ABD AL-`AZIZ
  • ----------------------, Al-Wasata bayn al-Mutanabbi wa-khusumihi, Cairo, 1951.
  • Ajami, Mansour, The Alchemy of Glory, Washington: Three Continents Press, 1988, 37-39.
  • AL-KHAFAJI, MUHAMMAD IBN SINAN
  • ----------------------, Sirr al-fasaha, Cairo, 1953.
  • Ajami, Mansour, The Alchemy of Glory, Washington: Three Continents Press, 1988, 79-83. 
  • AL-KHALIDI, RUHI Al-Khateeb,  Husam,  "Ruhi al-Khalidi:  A Pioneer of Comparative Literature  in Arabic," Journal of Arabic Literature XVIII (1987), 81-7. 
  • AL-KHATTABI, ABU SULAYMAN HAMAD IBN MUHAMMAD
  • ----------------------, Thalath rasa'il fi i`jaz al-Qur'an, Cairo, 1968. 
  • KHURI, ILYAS
  • ----------------------, Dirasat fi naqd al-shi`r, Beirut: Dar Ibn Rushd, 1981. 
  • Brugman, J., An Introduction to the History of Modern Arabic Literature in Egypt, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1984, 387-93.
  • MAHMUD, ZAKI NAJIB Francis, Raymond, Aspects de la litterature arabe contemporaine Beirut: Dar al-Ma`aref, 1963, 304-309.
  • MANDUR, MUHAMMAD   
  • ----------------------, Al-Naqd al-Manhaji `inda al-`Arab, Cairo, 1969. 
  • Brugman, J., An Introduction to the History of Modern Arabic Literature in Egypt, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1984, 402-11.
  • Francis, Raymond, Aspects de la litterature arabe contemporaine, Beirut: Dar al-Ma`aref, 1963, 310-316.
  • Hamada, Ibrahim, "Al-Mawqif al-akhlaqi li-al-Duktur Mandur ka- naqid masrahi," Al-Masrah wa-al-sinama 62 (May 1969), 27-31.
  • Mandur, Muhammad, in The Literature of Ideas in Egypt Vol. 1 ed. Louis Awad, Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1986, 203-09.
  • Rushdi, Rashad, "Muhammad mandu ka-ma ra'aytuhu," Al-masrah 18 (Jun. 1965), 6-7.
  • Semah, D. "Muhammad Mandur and `New Poetry'," Journal of  Arabic Literature II (1971), 143-153.
  • Shukri, Ghali, "Mandur naqid masrahiyyan," Al-masrah 20 (Aug. 1965), 9-17.
  • AL-MARSAFI, HUSAYN Brugman, J., An Introduction to the History of Modern Arabic Literature in Egypt, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1984, 324-27.
  • AL-MARZUBANI, ABU `ABDALLAH MUHAMMAD IBN `AMRAN
  •  ----------------------, Al-Muwashshah, Cairo, 1965.
  • AL-MARZUQI, ABU `ALI AHMAD IBN MUHAMMAD AL-HASAN
  • ----------------------, Sharh Diwan al-Hamasah, Cairo, 1967.
  • Ajami, Mansour, The Alchemy of Glory, Washington: Three Continents Press, 1988, 9-11.
  • AL-MUBARRAD, ABU AL-`ABBAS MUHAMMAD IBN YAZID
  • ----------------------, Al-Kamil, Cairo, 1958.
  • "Al-Mubarrad's Epistle on Poetry and Prose" ed. Gustave von Grunebaum, orientalia 10 (1941), 372-82.
  • MUHALHIL IBN YAMMUT IBN AL-MUZARRI`
  • ----------------------, Sariqat Abi Nuwas, Cairo, 1957.
  • Muruwwah, Husayn, Turathuna kayfa na`rifuhu, Beirut: Mu'assassat al-Abhath al-`Arabiyya, 1985.
  • MURUWWAH, HUSAYN interview, Al-Mawqif al-adabi 8 (Dec. 1971): 33.
  • MUSA, SALAMA Brugman, J., An Introduction to the History of Modern Arabic Literature in Egypt, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1984, 393-402.
  • NU`AYMA, MIKHA'IL Khouri, Mounah A., Studies in Contemporary Arabic Poetry & Criticism, Piedmont, Cal.: jahan Book Co., 1987, 42-52.
  • RAFAEL PATTI Al-Saqr, Hatim, "Rafael Patti and iraqi Poetry Criticism," Gilgamesh 2 (1989), 61-66.
  • AL-QARTAJANNI, HAZIM 
  • ----------------------, Minhaj al-balagha wa-siraj al-udaba', Tunis, 1966.
  • Ajami, Mansour, The Alchemy of Glory, Washington: Three Continents Press, 1988, 101-15.
  • Badawi, `Abd al-Rahman, Hazim al-Qartajanni wa-nazariyyat Aristu fi al-shi`r wa-al-balagha, Cairo, 1961.
  • Fahmi, Mahir Hasan, "Qadiyyat al-nazm wa-'l-falsafa al-jamaliyya `inda Hazim al-Qartajanni," Majallat al-lugha al-`arabiyya [Cairo] 27 (1971), 155-65.
  • Hamarneh, Walid, "The Reception of Aristotle's Theory of POetry in Arab-Islamic Medieval Thought," Poetics East and West ed.  Dolezelova-Velingerova,  Toronto Semiotic Circle Monograph Series No. 4 [1988-89]: 183-201. 
  • Heinrichs, Wolfhart, Arabische Dichtung und griechische Poetik: Hazim al-Qartajannis Grundlegung der Poetik mit Hilfe 
      aristotelischer Begriffe, Beirut, 1969.
  • Van Gelder, G.J.H., "Critic and Craftsman: al-Qartajanni and the Structure of the Poem," Journal of Arabic Literature X (1979), 26-48.
  • QUDAMA IBN JA`FAR
  • ----------------------, Naqd al-shi`r, Leiden, 1956.
  • Ajami, Mansour, The Alchemy of Glory, Washington: Three Continents Press, 1988, 19-23.
  • Hamarneh, Walid, "The Reception of Aristotle's Theory of POetry in Arab-Islamic Medieval Thought," Poetics East and West ed.  Dolezelova-Velingerova,  Toronto  Semiotic Circle Monograph Series No. 4 [1988-89]: 183-201. 
  • SAFADI, MUTA`, "Jadaliyyat al-mushakala wa-al- muthaqafa," Afaq `Arabiyya 11 no. 12 (Dec. 1986), 54-57.
  • AL-SAHIB IBN `ABBAD
  • ----------------------, Al-Kashf `an masawi shi`r al- Mutanabbi, appended to Al-Ibana `an sariqat al- Mutanabbi of al-`Amidi, Cairo, 1961.
  • Al-SAKKAKI Matlub, Ahmad, Al-Balagha `ind al-Sakkaki, Baghdad, 1964.
  • Smyth, William, "Some quick rules Ut pictura poesis: the rules for simile in Miftah al-`ulum," Oriens Vol. 33 (1992): 215-29.
  • SALIH, MADANI  "Ma`a al-naqid Madani Salih: al-Shi`r al-Jahili hadara raqiyya," Afaq `Arabiyya 1 (1986), 70-78.
  • AL-SHAYIB, AHMAD Brugman, J., An Introduction to the History of Modern Arabic Literature in Egypt, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1984, 377-80.
  • SHURKI, GHALI Ulfat al-Salami, "Al-Naqid Ghali Shukri," Afaq `Arabiyya 14 no. 1 (Jan. 1989), 132-33.
  • AL-SULI, ABU BAKR MUHAMMAD IBN YAHYA
  • ----------------------, Akhbar Abi Tammam, Beirut, n.d.
  • ----------------------, Akhbar al-Buhturi, Damascus, 1958.
  • URUR, NAJIB Surur, Najib, "Hiirat al-naqd al-masrahi bayn al-shakl wa-al- madmuun," Al-Masrah 46 (Oct. 1967), 13-18.
  • AL-SUYUTI, JALAL AL-DIN Boullata, Issa J., "Poetry Creation as Interpretive Illustration in Qur'an Exegesis:  Masa'il Nafi`  ibn  Al-Azraq,"  Islamic  Studies Presented to Charles J.  Adamas ed.  Wael B.  Hallaq and Donald F. Little, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1991, 27-40. 
  • THA`LAB Heinrichs, Wolfhart, "Ta`lab's treatise on the Foundations of Poetry (Qawa'id al-shi`r) reconsidered," in Proceedings of the 27th International Congress of Orientalists, Ann Arbor, Mich.I 1967, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitc, 1971, 211 ff.
  • TIZZINI, TAYYIB Al-Mawqif al-adabi 4 no. 7 (Nov. 1974): 5
  • USAMA IBN MUNQIDH
  • ----------------------, Al-Badi` fi naqd al-shi`r, Cairo, 1960.
  • `USFUR, JABIR, "Hiwar ma`a Jabir `Usfur," Afaq `Arabiyya 10 n0. 7 (Jul. 1985), 129-32.
  • -------------, "Al-Naqd nashat anani yakhda` li- namudhaj taswiri," Vol. 11 no. 10 (Dec. 1986), 122-23.
  • -------------, Al-Sura al-fanniyya fi al-turath al-naqdi wa-al- balaghi, Cairo, 1974.
  • YUNUS, `ABD AL-HAMID Francis,  Raymond,  Aspects  de la litterature arabe contemporaine,  Beirut: Dar al-Ma`aref, 1963, 330-336. 
  • AL-ZAYYAT, AHMAD Brugman,  J.,  An Introduction to  the  History  of  Modern Arabic Literature in Egypt, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1984, 380-82.

    BY SCHOOL

  •  `Abbud, Hana, "Fi "Al-Madrasa al-waqi`iyya fi al-naqd al- adabi al-hadith", (`Umar al-Fakhuri)," Al-Mawqif al- adabi Sept. 1972, 96-114.
  • `Abdel-Hai, M. "Night and Silence: Experience and Language in Romanticism and Mysticism," Journal of Arabic   Literature VI (1975), 107-124.
  • Abu  Haidar,  Jareer,  "Romanticism and Modern Arabic Literature," in Tradition and Modernity in Arabic Language and  Literature  ed.  J.  M.  Smart,  London: Curzon Press, 1996, pp. 3-17. 
  •  Da'ud, Anas, Al-Tajdid fi shi`r al-Mahjar, Cairo:  Dar al-Katib al- `Arabi, 1967
  • Dayf, Shawqi, Al-adab al-`arabi al-mu`asir fi Misr, Cairo:  Dar al- Ma`arif, 1957, 70-78. 
  • Gamal,  Adel  Suleiman,   "Narrative  Poetry  in  Classical  Arabic Literature," in In Quest of an Islamic Humanism,  Cairo:  American University in Cairo Press, 1985, 25-38. 
  • Muruwwa,  Husayn,  Dirasat naqdiyya `ala daw' al-manhaj al-waqi`i, Beirut: n.p., 1965. 
  • Nijland,  Cornelis, "Love and Beyond in Mahjar Literature," in Love and Sexuality in Modern Arabic Literature ed.  Allen, Kilpatrick & de Moor, London: Saqi Books, 1994, pp. 46-55. 
  • ------------------, "Religious Motifs and Themes in North American Mahjar Poetry," Representations of the Divine in Arabic Poetry, ed. Geert  Borg and Ed de Moor, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2001, pp. 161-182.
  • Ostle,  Robin,  "The Romantic Imagination and the Female Ideal," in Love  and Sexuality  in  Modern  Arabic  Literature  ed.   Allen,  Kilpatrick & de Moor, London: Saqi Books, 1994, pp. 33-45. 
  •  -------------,   "The  Romantic  Revolution?"  Journal  of   Arabic Literature Vol. 26 nos 1 & 2 (June 1995): 93-104. 
  • Sarraj,  Nadira Jamil, Shu`ara' al-Rabita al-Qalamiyya, Cairo:  Dar al-Ma`arif, 1964. 
  • Wadi, Taha, Surat al-mar'a fi al-riwaya al-mu`asira Cairo:  Dar al- Ma`arif, 1980. 
  • Yasin,  Rashid,  "Fi  takhattina al-waqi`iyya`" Al-Mawqif al-adabi Dec. 1972, 56-64. 
  • Al-Zubaydi, A.M.K. "The Diwan School," Journal of Arabic Literature 1 (1970), 36-48. 
  • ----------------, "The Apollo School's Early Experiments in `Free Verse'," Journal of Arabic Literature V (1974), 17-43.
  • D.  Semah,  "Muhammad  Mandur  and `New Poetry'," Journal of Arabic Literature II (1971), 143-153. 

 

FEMINIST

  • Accad,  Evelyne,  Sexuality and War:  Literary Masks of  the  Middle East, New York: New York University Press, 199? 
  • Accad,  Evelyne and Rose Ghurayyib, Contemporary Arab Women Writers and Poets, Beirut: institute for Women's Studies in the Arab World, 1985.
  • Ascha, Ghassan, Du statut inferieur de la femme en Islam, Paris: L'Harmattan, 1989.
  • Bellamy,  James, "Sex and Society in Islamic Popular Literature," in Society and the Sexes in Medieval Islam ed.  Afaf Marsot,  Malibu: Undena Publications, 1979, 36-37. 
  • Cooke, Miriam, "Death and Desire in iraqi War Literature," in Love and Sexuality in Modern Arabic Literature ed.  Allen, Kilpatrick & de Moor, London: Saqi Books, 1994, pp. 184-199. 
  • -------------, "Telling Their Lives: A Hundred Years of Arab Women's Writings," World Literature Today (Spring 1986): 212-16.
  • Douglas, Allen and Fedwa Malti-Douglas, "Femmes, Tradition, et Bandes Dessinees," Revue tunisienne de sciences sociales, 199?
  • Hafez,  Sabry,  "Women's Narrative in Modern Arabic Literature,"  in Love  and  Sexuality  in  Modern  Arabic Literature  ed.   Allen, Kilpatrick & de Moor, London: Saqi Books, 1994, pp. 154-74.
  • Malti-Douglas, Fedwa, Woman's Body, Woman's Word in Arabo-Islamic Discourse, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 199?.
  • --------------------, "Views of Arab Women: Society, Text, and Critic," Edebiyat IV (1979): 256-73.
  • Mernisi, Fatima, Beyond the Veil: Male-Female Dynamics in a Modern Muslim Society, Cambridge, Mass.: Schenkman Publishing co., 1975.
  • ---------------, Chahrazad n'est pas marocaine, Casablanca: Editions Le Fennec, 1988)
  • Sabbah, Fatna Ait, La femme dans l'inconscient musulman, Paris: Albin Michel, 1986.
  • Sha`rawi, Huda, Harem Years: The Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist trans. Margot Badran, London: Virago, 1986.
  • Tifashi, Ahmad, Les delices des coeurs trans. Rene R. Khawam, Paris: Editions Phebus, 1981.
  • Opening the Gates: a Century of Arab Feminist Writing  eds.  Margot Badran and Miriam Cooke, London: Virago Press, 1990.

HISTORY OF

  • `Abbas, Ihsan, Ta'rikh al-naqd al-adabi `inda al-`Arab, Beirut: 1971
  • Ajami, Mansour, The Alchemy of Glory, Washington: Three Continents Press, 1988, 19-23.
  • --------------,  The Neckveins  of  Winter:  The  Controversy  over Natural   and   Artificial  Poetry  in  Medieval  Arabic  Literary Criticism, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1984. 
  • `Asfur,  Jabir,  Al-Surah al-fanniyyah fi al-turath al-naqdi wa-al- balaghi, Cairo, 1974. 
  • Al-`Ashmawi, M. Zaki, Qadaya al-naqd al-adabi wa-al-balagha, Alexandria, 1967
  • Badawi, Ahmad Ahmad, Usus al-naqd al-adabi `inda al-`Arab, Cairo: Dar Nahdat Misr, 1979.
  • Badawi, Mustafa Muhammad, "Commitment in Modern Arabic Poetry," Cahiers d'histoire mondiale (Journal of World
      History 14 (1972), 858- .
  • Cachia, Pierre, "The Critics," in An Overview of Modern Arabic Literature Islamic Surveys no. 17, Edinburgh:University of Edinburgh Press, 1990, 76-103.
  • van Gelder, G.J.H., Beyond the Line: Classical Arabic Literary Critics on the Coherence and Unity of the Poem, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1982.
  • Glubb, Faris, "Palestinian Resistance Poetry, its Special Character," Islamic Review Nov.-Dec. 1969, 11-  .  
  • Hamarneh, Walid, "The Reception of Aristotle's Theory of POetry in Arab-Islamic Medieval Thought," Poetics East and West ed.  Dolezelova-Velingerova,  Toronto Semiotic Circle Monograph Series No. 4 [1988-89]: 183-201. 
  • Al-Hawari, Ahmad Ibrahim, Masadir naqd al-riwaya fi al adab al-`Arabi al-hadith fi Misr, Cairo: Dar al-Ma`arif, 1979.
  • Heinrichs,  Wolfhart, "The Classification of the Sciences and the Consolidation of Philology in  Classical  islam,"  in  Centres  of  Learning:  Learning and Location in Pre-modern Europe and the Near East,  ed.  Jan Willem Drijvers and 
    A.A.  MacDonald, Leiden: E.J.  Brill, 1995, pp. 119-140.
  • Ibrahim, `Abd al-Hakim Mustafa, Mawqif al-naqd al-adabi min Hammad al-Rawiya, Cairo: Matba`at al-sa`ada, 1981.
  • Al-Khateeb, Husam, "Ruhi al-Khalidi: A Pioneer of Comparative Literature in Arabic," Journal of Arabic Literature XVIII 
      (1987), 81-7.
  • Mandur, Muhammad, Al-Naqd al-Manhaji `inda al-`Arab, Cairo: 1969.
  • Al-Najm, Wadi`a Taha, "Tara'if fi al-sariqat al-shi`riyya," Al-`Arabi 350 (Jan. 1988), 80-3.
  • al-Rabi`i, Mahmud, Nusus min al-naqd al-`Arabi, Cairo, 1983.
  • -----------------, Nusus min al-naqd al-`Arabi al-qadim, Cairo, 1986.
  • Sallum, Muhammad Zaghlul, Tarikh al-naqd al-`Arabi, 2 vols, Cairo, n.d. Sharaf, Hifni M., Al-Naqd al-adabi `inda al-Arab,  Cairo:  1971.
  • Staif, A.N., "The Question of Foreign Influences in Modern Arabic Literary Criticism,"  Journal of Arabic Literature XVI (1985), 109-118.
  • Stetkevych, Jaroslav, "The Arabic qasidah: Form and Content to Word and Meaning," in Euchariston: Essays presented
      to Amljan Pritsak on his 60th Birthday, pt. 2, Harvard Ukranian Studies 3-4 (1979-80), 782-85.
  • Stetkevych, Suzanne Pinckney, "Abu Tammam fi "Muwazanat al-Amidi: Hasr al-mu'assassa al-naqdiyya li-shi`r albadi`," Ibda` Subhi, Muhyi al-din, Nazariyyat al-naqd al-adabi wa-tatuwwuruha ila `asrina, Tunis: Al-Dar al-`Arabiyya li-al-kitab, 1984.
  • Tabana, Badawi, Al-Bayan al-`Arabi: dirasa fi tatawwur al-fikra al- balaghiyya `ind al-`Arab wa-manahijiha wa-masadiriha al-kubra, 6 vols., Cairo, 1976.
  • --------------, Dirasat fi naqd al-adab al-`Arabi min al-Jahiliyya ila nihayat al-qarn al-thalith, 3 vols., Cairo, 1960.
  • Trabulsi, Amjad, La critique poetique des Arabes jusqu'au Ve siecle de l'hegire (XIe siecle de J-C), Damas, 1956.

HUMOUR

  • van Gelder,  G.J.H.,  "Mixtures of Jest and  Earnest  in  Classical Arabic  Literature,"  Journal  of  Arabic Literature Part 1:  Vol. XXIII Part 2 (July 1992): 83-108. 

 

POETIC CRITICISM

  • Adunis, Introduction a la poetique arabe, Paris: Sindbad, 1985.
  • Allen, Roger,  "Poetry and Poetic Criticism at the turn of  the  Century,"  in  Studies  in  modern  Arabic Literature  ed.  R.C.  Ostle,  Warminster,  England: Aris & Phillips, 1975, 7-17. 
  • Bonebakker, Seeger A., "Sariqa and Formula: Three CHapters from Hatimi's Hilyat al-muhadara, in Annali dell'Istituto Unversitario Orientale Vol. 46 (1986), 367-89.
  • Hafiz, Sabri, Istishraf al-shi`r: dirasat fi naqd al-shi`r al-`Arabi al-hadith, Beirut: Dar al-`Awda, ------------, "Al-Shi`r wa-al-tahaddi: Ishkaliyyat al-manhaj," Afaq `Arabiyya 1 (1986), 43-49.
  • Hafiz, Sabri, "Al-shi`r al-mu`asir wa-mas'uliyyat al-naqid," Al- Adab, dec. 1962.Hamarneh, Walid, "The Reception of Aristotle's Theory of POetry in Arab-Islamic Medieval Thought," Poetics East and West ed.  Dolezelova-Velingerova,  Toronto Semiotic Circle Monograph Series No. 4 [1988-89]: 183-201. 
  • Heinrichs, Wolfhart, "An evaluation of sariqa," Quaderni di studi arabi 5-6 (1987-88), 357-368.
  • Isma`il, `Izz al-din, Al-Shi`r al-`Arabi al-mu`asir: Qadayahu wa-zawahiruhu al-fanniyya wa-al-ma`nawiyya, Cairo: Dar al-Fikr al-`Arabi, 1978.
  • Al-Jayyusi, Salma Khadra', Trends and movements in Modern Arabic Poetry, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1977.
  • Jida, `Abd al-Hamid, Al-Ittijahat al-jadida fi al-shi`r al-`Arabi al-mu`asir, Beirut: Mu`assassat Nawfal, 1980. 
  • Khuri, Ilyas, Dirasat fi naqd al-shi`r, Beirut: Dar Ibn Rushd, 1981.
  • Al-Mala'ika, Nazik, Qadaya al-shi`r al-mu`asir, Beirut: Dar al-`ilm li-al-malayin, 1974. 
  • Sa`id, Khalida, Harakiyyat al-ibda`: Dirasat fi al-adab Al-`Arabi al-hadith, Beirut: Dar al-`Awda, 1979.
  • Trad, Jurj, "Fi wazifat al-naqd," Afaq `Arabiyya 11 no. 11 (Nov. 1986), 72-77.
  • `Umar, `Abd al-rahim, "Al-naqd sahim fi ishkalat al-shi`r al-`Arabi al-hadith," Afaq `Arabiyya 11 no. 12 (Dec. 1986), 131-33.

POPULAR LITERATURE

  • Allen, Roger, "An analysis of "The Tale of the Three Apples" from The Thousand and One Nights," in Logos Islamikos: Studia Islamica in honorem George Michael Wickens ed. Roger M. Savory and Dionisius A. Agius, Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 1984, 51-60.
  • Cachia, Pierre,  "Social  Values  reflected in Egyptian popular  ballads,"  in  Studies  in  Modern  Arabic Literature  ed.  R.C.  Ostle,  Warminster:  Aris  & Phillips, 1975, 86-98. 
  • Connolly, Bridget, Arab Folk Epic and identity, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.
  • Folktales of Egypt ed. and trans. Hasan M. El-Shamy, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980.
  • Gerhardt, Mia, The Art of Storytelling: A Literary Study of the Thousand and One Nights, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1963. 
  • Ghazoul, Feryal Jabouri, The Arabian Nights: A Structural Analysis, Cairo: Cairo Associated Institution for the Study and Presentation of Arab Cultural Values, 1980.   
  • -----------------------, "Poetic Logic and the Panchatantra and the Arabian Nights," Arab Studies Quarterly 5 no. 1 (1983), 13-21.
  • Hamori, Andras, On the Art of Medieval Arabic Literature,  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974, 143-180.   
  • Heath, Peter, A Critical Review of Modern Scholarship on  Sirat `Antar Ibn Shaddad and the Popular Sira, Journal of Arabic Literature XV (1984), 19-44.
  • `Id, Husayn, "Alf Layla wa-layla fi qafs al-ittiham," Afaq `Arabiyya 10 no. 7 (Jul. 1985), 134-36.
  • "Al-Madamiin al-qawmiyya li-al-siyar al-sha`biyya," Afaq `Arabiyya Vol. 11 no. 7 (1986), 122-129.
  • Mahdi, Muhsin, "Mazahir al-riwaya wa-al-mushafaha fi usul "Alf Layla wa-layla", Majallat Ma`had al-makhtutat al-
      Arabiyya," Vol. 20 (May 1974), 125-43.
  • -------------, The 1001 Nights [Alf Layla wa-Layla] from the earliest known sources Vol. 1 Texts, Vol 2 Critical 
    Apparatus & Description of Manuscrupts, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1984. 
  • Molan, Peter, "Ma`ruf the Cobbler: The Mythic Structure of an Arabian Nights Tale," Edebiyat Vol. 3 no. 2 (1978),
    121-136.
  • Sbait, Dirgham H., "Poetic and Musical Structure in the Improvised-sung Qasidih of the Palestinian Poet-Singers," Al-`Arabiyya 19 nos. 1 & 2 (1986), 75-108.
  • Slymovics, Susan, "Arabic Folk Literature and Political expression," Arab Studies Quarterly 8 no. 2 (1986), 178-185. 
  • AlWahab, Abbas Sadik, "A generative phonological analysis of one thousand and one nights," Majallat Kulliyat al-
      adab, Basrah 9 (1974), 1-24.

 

"PRACTICAL"

  • Fusul VIII, 1 & 2, 3 & 4 Studies in Applied Criticism Beeston,  A.F.L.,  "Ships in a Quranic simile," Journal  of Arabic 
      Literature IV (1973), 94-96. 
  • ---------------,  "Parallelism  in Arabic Prose," Journal of Arabic Literature V (1974), 134-146. 
  • Al-Jayyusi,  Salma,  "Two types  of  hero  in  contemporary  Arabic Literature," Mundus artium X NO. 1 (1977), 35-49. 
  • Al-Naqqash,  Raja', Maq`ad amama al-sitar:  dirasat fi al-naqd al- masrahi, Cairo: n.p., 1971. 
  • Park, R, " "And heard Great Argument".  An Essay om the Practical Criticism of Arabic Poetry," Journal of Arabic Literature 1 (1970), 49-69. 
  • Subhi, Muhyi al-din, "Nusus `Arabiyya min al-sittinat," Al-Mawqif al-adabi, May 1972), 17-28. 


PSYCHOLOGICAL


QUR'AN

  • Boullata, Issa J., "Poetry Creation as Interpretive Illustration in  Qur'an Exegesis:  Masa'il Nafi`  ibn  Al-Azraq,"  Islamic  Studies   Presented to Charles J.  Adamas ed.  Wael B.  Hallaq and Donald F.    Little, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1991, 27-40. 
  • Mustansir  Mir,  "The  Qur'an as Literature," Religion & Literature   20.1 (Spr. 1988), 49-66. 
  • Rahman,  Fazlur,  "Translating the Qur'an," Religion  &  Literature   20.1 (Spr. 1988), 23-30. 
  • Sells,  Michael,  "Sound,  Spirit,  and  Gender  in Surat al-Qadr,"   Journal of the American OrientalSociety Vol. 111 no.  2 (Apr.-June   1991), 239-59. 
  • Shahid, Irfan, "Another Contribution to Koranic Exegesis:  The Sura   of the Poets (XXVI),  Journal of Arabic Literature XIV (1983),  1-  21. 
  • Stern,  M.S., "Muhammad and Joseph:  A Study in Koranic Narrative,"   Journal of Near Eastern Studies 44 no. 3 (July 1985), 193-204. 
  • Stewart,  Devin,  "Saj` in  the  Qur'an:  Prosody  and  Structure,"   Journal of Arabic Literature XXI pt. 2 (1990), 101-139. 

     

SOCIOLOGICAL (including "Commitment")

  • `Abd al-Fattah,  `Ali,  "Surat al-mar'a fi `alam Layla `Uthman  al-qasasi," Afaq `Arabiyya 11 (Nov. 1987), 139-41. 
  • Abu Amshah,  `Adil,  Qadaya al-mar'a fi sh`r al-`arabi al-hadith fi Misr min 1798-1945, Beirut: Dar al-Jil, 1987. 
  • `Amyuni, Mona Taki al-din, "Surat al-mar'ah fi riwayat `Arabiyyah," Al-Hayah June 1st & 2nd, 1992.
  • Badawi,  Mustafa Muhammad,  "Commitment in Modern  Arabic  Poetry," Cahiers  d'histoire  mondiale (Journal of World History 14 (1972), 858- . 
  • Badr, `Abd al-muhsin Taha, Al-Riwa'i wa-al-ard, Cairo: Al-Hay'a al- Misriyya al-`amma li-al-kitab, 1971. 
  • Badran, Margot, "The Feminist Vision in the Writings of Three Turn- of-the-Century Egyptian Women," BRISMES Bulletin 15  nos.  1  &  2 (1988), 11-20. 
  • Barakat, Halim,  Visions of Social reality in the Contemporary Arab Novel, Georgetown: Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, 1977. 
  • Barakat,  Salim Muhammad, "Zawahir al-iltizam fi al-adab al-`Arabi al-qadim," Al-Mawqif al-adabi 3 (Jul. 1971), 99-110.
  • Barradah, Muhammad, Al-Kitabah wa-al-masafah al-dururiyyah," Akhbar al-adab 92 (16 April 1995): 31. 
  • Al-Bisat, Ilham Kilab, "Fi Ma`na al-taharrur al-jinsi," Mawaqif 28 (Sum. 1974), 113-116. 
  • Cooke,  Miriam,  "A  Hundred  Year of Arab Women's Writings," World Literature Today Vol. 60 no. 2 (Spring 1986), 212-216.
  • Glubb,   Faris,   "Palestinian   Resistance  Poetry,   its  Special Character," Islamic Review Nov.-Dec. 1969, 11- . 
  • Hafiz, Sabri, "Al-Adab wa-al-mujtama`:  madkhal li-`ilm ijtima` al-adab," Fusul Jan. 1981. 
  • "Hawla  al-iltizam  wa-al-adib  al-`Arabi," Al-Mawqif al-adabi 9-10 (Jan.-Feb. 1972), 163-176. 
  • Hoffman-Ladd, Valerie,  "Polemics on the Modesty and Segregation of women in Contemporary Egypt," International Journal of Middle East Studies 19 no. 1 (1987), 23-50. 
  • Al-Husayni,  Sallam Murtada,  "Al-Mar'a fi al-mujtama` al-Lubnani," Mawaqif 28 (Sum. 1974), 1170120. 
  • `Id,  Husayn,  "Muhawalat al-khuruj  `an  `alam  al-mar'a  al-taqlidi  wa-suwar ukhra," Afaq `Arabiyya 13 no. 9 (Sept. 1988), 159-61. 
  • Isma`il,  Sidqi,  "Nuqat  asasiyya fi masa'il al-iltizam wa-al-ada' al-fanni," Al-Mawqif al-adabi 9-10 (Jan.-Feb.  1972), 5-16.
  • Keyser,  James  M.B.,  "1001  Nights:  A  Famous  Etiquette  Book," Edebiyat Vol. 3 no. 1 (1978), 11-22. 
  • Klemm, Verena, "Notions of Commitment (iltizam) and Committed Literature (al- adab al-multazim) in the Literary Circules of the Mashriq," Arabic & Middle  Eastern Literatures, Vol. 3 no. 1 (2000): 51-62. 
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  • Rabiz,  Jeanine,  "Hawl ahammiyyat al-Taharrur al-jinsi fi `amaliyyat  taharrur al-mar'a," Mawaqif 28 (Sum. 1974), 110-112.
  • Salih, Qasim Husayn,  "Surat al-mar'a fi al-shi`r al-`Arabi," Afaq `Arabiyya 13 no. 2 (Feb. 1988), 70-79. 
  • Takieddine-Amyuni,  Mona,  "Images of Arab  Women  in  Midaq  Alley  by  Naguib Mahfouz,  and  Seasons  (sic)  of  Migration  to  the  North  by  Tayeb Salih, International Journal of Middle East Studies Vol.  17 no.  1 (February 1985),
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  • Tibawi,  A.L.,  "Visions  of the Return:  The Palestine Arab Refugees in Arabic Poetry and Art," The Middle East Journal 17 no. 5, 507-
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STRUCTURAL

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  • Bateson,  Mary  Catherine,  Structural  Continuity  in  Poetry: a linguistic study of  five  Pre-Islamic  Arabic  odes,  The  Hague: Mouton, 1970. 
  • Bencheikh, Jamel eddine, "Generation du recit et strategie du sens: L'histoire  de Qamar Az Zaman et de Budur," Communications (Paris) 39 (1984), 102-124. 
  • Connelly,  B.  "The Structure of Four Bani Hilal Tales," Journal of Arabic Literature IV (1973), 18-47. 
  • van Gelder,  G.J.H.,  "Critic and Craftsman:  al-Qartajanni and the Structure of the Poem," Journal of Arabic Literature X (1979), 26- 48. 
  • Ghazoul, Feryal Jabouri, The Arabian Nights: A Structural Analysis, Cairo: Cairo Associated Institution for the Study and Presentation of Arab Cultural Values, 1980. 
  • Haydar,  Adnan, "The Mu`allaqa of Imru' al-Qays:  Its Structure and Meaning," I Edebiyat Vol. 2 no. 2 (1977), 227-261; II, ibid., Vol.  3 no. 1 (1978), 51-82. 
  • Khayr Bey,  Kamal,  "Bina'  al-qasida  al-haditha,"  Mawaqif  41-42 (Spr.-Sum. 1981), 39-63. 
  • Molan,  Peter,  "Ma`ruf  the  Cobbler:  The  Mythic Structure of an Arabian Nights Tale," Edebiyat Vol. 3 no. 2 (1978), 121-136. 
  • Monroe,  James,  "The Structure of  an  Arabic  muwashshah  with  a bilingual kharja," Edebiyat Vol. 1 no. 1 (1976), 113-123. 
  • Sironval,   Margaret,  "Histoire  des  princes  Amgiad  et  Assad," Communications (Paris) 39 (1984), 125-140. 
  • Stetkevych, Suzanne Pinckney, ""Al-Qasida al-`Arabiyya wa-Tuqus al- `ubur,"  Matbu`at Majma` al-lughat al-`Arabiyya bi-Dimashq,  1985, 55-85. 
  • -------------------,  "Structualist Interpretations of  Pre-Islamic Poetry:  Critique  and  New  Directions,"  Journal of Near Eastern studies 42 no. 2 (Apl. 1983), 85-107. 
  • Tahhan,  Raymond,  "Al-`Alaqa bayn al-lugha al-`Arabiyya wa-al-fikr al-`Arabi," Mawaqif 15 (May-Jun. 1971), 33-48. 
  • Vesel, Ziva,  "Les favoris de la fortune:  deux contes du Bakhtyar- Name, Communications (Paris) 39 (1984), 94-101.