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The Arabic fable : an inventory of short stories featuring speaking animals and other nonhuman characters in premodern Arabic literature / by Ulrich Marzolph

By: Language: English, Arabic Series: Global Arabic literary cultures ; 03Publication details: Leiden : Brill, 2025Description: (429 p.)ISBN:
  • 9789004729001
DDC classification:
  • 398.2041016 23A
Other classification:
  • 398.2A
Summary: This is the first attempt to provide a representative inventory of fables documented in premodern Arabic literature. The introduction presents a detailed effort to define the Arabic fable and a condensed historical survey together with a short assessment of the content characteristics of the Arabic fable proper. An annotated bibliography discusses significant contributions to the study of the Arabic fable in detail. The book’s main body surveys a total of 330 numbered fables with short summaries, exhaustive references, and concise comments. The detailed documentation recognizes the Arabic fable as the long neglected equal of its dominantly perceived Graeco-Latin sibling.
Item type: Livre
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Livre Livre Bibliothèque centrale En accès libre 398.2A / 581 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 000008214089

Bibliogr. p. 339-368

This is the first attempt to provide a representative inventory of fables documented in premodern Arabic literature. The introduction presents a detailed effort to define the Arabic fable and a condensed historical survey together with a short assessment of the content characteristics of the Arabic fable proper. An annotated bibliography discusses significant contributions to the study of the Arabic fable in detail. The book’s main body surveys a total of 330 numbered fables with short summaries, exhaustive references, and concise comments. The detailed documentation recognizes the Arabic fable as the long neglected equal of its dominantly perceived Graeco-Latin sibling.

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