Executive editor:
Volume 38, Number 1, 2007
Since its inception in 1970 the Journal of Arabic Literature has provided an international scholarly forum for the discussion of Arabic literature and has secured its position at the forefront of critical and methodological debate. The journal publishes literary, critical and historical studies, as well as review and bibliographies, on a broad range of Arabic materials – classical and modern, written and oral, poetry and prose, literary and colloquial. Studies that seek to integrate Arabic literature into the broader discourses of the humanities and social sciences take their place alongside technical work of a more specialized nature. The journal thus addresses itself to a readership in comparative literature and literary theory and method, in addition to specialists in Arabic and Middle Eastern literatures and Middle East studies generally.
The current issue includes the following articles:
From Sīrah to Qasīdah:
Poetics and Polemics in Al-Būsīrī's Qasīdat Al-Burdah (Mantle Ode)
Stetkevych, Suzanne Pinckney
She is the Capital of the Soul:
The Book of San'ā' by 'Abd Al-'Azīz Al-Maqālih
Huri, Yair
Classical Elements in Mahjar Poetry
Jubran, Sulaiman
Ambivalent Attitudes Towards Nature in the Early Poetry of Nāzik Al-Malā'ika
Husni, Ronak
Le Prélude Amoureux Ou la Quête de L'ipséité dans la Poésie Arabe Classique
Labidi, Mokhtar