Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Preface
- 1 The Untranslatability of the Qurʾānic City
- 2 Local Historians and their Cities: the Urban Topography of al-Azdī’s Mosul and al-Sahmī’s Jurjan
- 3 Against Cities: On Hijāʾ al-Mudun in Arabic Poetry
- 4 The Literary Geography of Meaning in the Maqāmāt of al-Hamadhānī and al-Ḥarīrī
- 5 “Woe is me for Qayrawan!” Ibn Sharaf ’s Lāmiyya, the Plight of Refugees and the Cityscape
- 6 In Memory of al-Andalus: Using the Elegy to Reimagine the Literary and Literal Geography of Cordoba
- 7 The Mamluk City as Overlapping Personal Networks
- 8 Citystruck
- 9 Between Utopia and Dystopia in Marrakech
- 10 Revolutionary Cityscapes: Yūsuf Idrīs and the National Imaginary
- 11 Lost Cities, Vanished Worlds: Configurations of Urban Autobiographical Identity in the Arabic Literature of the 1980s
- 12 The Sufis of Baghdad: A Topographical Index of the City
- 13 Baṣrayātha: Self-portrait as a City
- 14 Of Cities and Canons in an Age of Comparative Consumption
- 15 Everyday Writing in an Extraordinary City
- 16 Translating Cairo’s Hidden Lines: The City as Visual Text in Magdy El Shafee’s Metro
- About the Contributors
- Index
List of Figures
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 November 2020
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Preface
- 1 The Untranslatability of the Qurʾānic City
- 2 Local Historians and their Cities: the Urban Topography of al-Azdī’s Mosul and al-Sahmī’s Jurjan
- 3 Against Cities: On Hijāʾ al-Mudun in Arabic Poetry
- 4 The Literary Geography of Meaning in the Maqāmāt of al-Hamadhānī and al-Ḥarīrī
- 5 “Woe is me for Qayrawan!” Ibn Sharaf ’s Lāmiyya, the Plight of Refugees and the Cityscape
- 6 In Memory of al-Andalus: Using the Elegy to Reimagine the Literary and Literal Geography of Cordoba
- 7 The Mamluk City as Overlapping Personal Networks
- 8 Citystruck
- 9 Between Utopia and Dystopia in Marrakech
- 10 Revolutionary Cityscapes: Yūsuf Idrīs and the National Imaginary
- 11 Lost Cities, Vanished Worlds: Configurations of Urban Autobiographical Identity in the Arabic Literature of the 1980s
- 12 The Sufis of Baghdad: A Topographical Index of the City
- 13 Baṣrayātha: Self-portrait as a City
- 14 Of Cities and Canons in an Age of Comparative Consumption
- 15 Everyday Writing in an Extraordinary City
- 16 Translating Cairo’s Hidden Lines: The City as Visual Text in Magdy El Shafee’s Metro
- About the Contributors
- Index
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- The City in Arabic LiteratureClassical and Modern Perspectives, pp. viiPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2018