Tradition and Modernity in Arabic Language and Literature Book

	Preface
1	Romanticism and Modern Arabic Literature	3
2	Tradition as a Factor of Arabic Modernism: Darwish's Application of a Mask	18
3	Tradition and Modernity in Arabic Poetry: The Constant Challenge, the Perennial Assertion	27
4	Sundry Observations on the Fate of Poetry in the Early Islamic Period	49
5	Changing Technique in Modern Arabic Poetry: A Reflection of Changing Values	61
6	Literacy, Munificence and Legitimation of Power during the reign of the Party Kings in Muslim Spain	75
7	The Authenticity of the Poems ascribed to Umayya Ibn Abi al-Salt	87
8	The Hunt in the Arabic Qasidah: the Antecedents of the Tardiyyah	102
9	Abbasid Panegyric: The Politics and Poetics of Ceremony. Al-Mutanabbi's Id-poem to Sayf al-Dawlah	119
10	Najib al-Haddad's Essay on the Comparison of Arabic and European Poetry	144
11	Arabic Influences in the Literature of Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Britain	153
12	Tradition and Modernity in the Work of the Tunisian writer al-Mas adi	165
13	The Organizational Principles in Ibn Sallam's Tabaqat Fuhul al-Shu ara. A Reconsideration	186
14	On Rhyming Endings and Symmetric Phrases in al-Hamadhani's Maqamat	210
15	The Prose Literature of Pre-Islamic Arabia	229
16	Modernity in a Classical Arabic Adab Work, the Kitab al-Aghani	242
17	An Incomplete Egyptian Ballad on The 1956 War	257
18	Mysticism in Arabic Writing	273
19	Rescuing Arabic Rhetoric from Neglect: A Text-linguistic Approach	293
20	The Dispute of Coffee and Tea: A Debate-Poem from the Gulf	302
21	Some sociolinguistic concepts of style and stylistic variation in spoken Arabic - with reference to Nagib Mahfuz talking about his life	316
22	The Language of Ibn al-Mujawir's 7th/13th Century Guide to Arabia, Tarikh al-Mustabsir	327