Contents

pp v-vi

List of Figures

pp vii-viii

Introduction

pp 1-4

Part I - Alexandria to Oxford

pp 5-6

1 - The Cosmopolitan Alexandrian

pp 7-17

2 - Muhammad Mustafa Badawi in Conversation

pp 18-32

3 - Badawi: An Academic with a Vision. A Personal Testimony

pp 33-54

4 - From the Shadow Plays of Ibn Daniyal to the Poetry of Philip Larkin: Mustafa Badawi as Editor and Translator

pp 55-66

Part II - The Academic Legacy

pp 67-68

5 - Beginning and End: Exploring the Qur'anic ‘Grand Story’

pp 69-82

6 - Modern Arabic Literature as Seen in the Late Nineteenth Century: Jurji Murqus's Contribution to Korsh and Kirpichnikov's Vseobshchaya Istoria Literatury

pp 83-101

7 - The ‘Second Journey’ (Al-Rihla al-thaniya) of Muhammad al-Muwaylihi's Hadith 'Isa Ibn Hisham Revisited

pp 102-117

8 - Ataturk Becomes 'Antar: Nationalist-vernacular Politics and Epic Heroism in 1920s Egypt

pp 118-138

9 - Jewish Arabs in the Israeli Asylum: A Literary Reflection

pp 139-158

10 - Strange Incidents from History: Youssef Rakha and his Sultan's Seal

pp 159-177

11 - Towards a Comparative Approach to Arabic Literature

pp 178-193

12 - Does Literature Matter? The Relationship between Literature and Politics in Revolutionary Egypt

pp 194-217

Notes on the Contributors

pp 218-219

Index

pp 220-230