Doing Justice to a Wronged Literature: Essays on Arabic Literature and Rhetoric of the 12th-18th Centuries in Honour of Thomas Bauer

Doing Justice to a Wronged Literature is a Festschrift for the Arabist and Islamicist Thomas Bauer. It includes 17 essays by established academics on various themes and aspects of Arabic literature and rhetoric of the Ayyubid, Mamluk and Ottoman periods (12th-18th centuries). Notoriously neglected and maligned by earlier scholarship, Arabic literature and rhetoric of the 12th-18th centuries is an understudied area of Arabic studies that Thomas Bauer has over the last two decades succeeded in developing and promoting. A tribute to his pioneering work on this field, the contributions highlight the wealth, complexity and importance of Arabic literature and rhetoric of the said period by offering close readings of paradigmatic texts or examining specific topics and trends in larger corpora.

Hakan Özkan, Ph.D. (2006), Université de Provence, is Senior Lecturer and Researcher at the University of Münster. He has published extensively on pre-modern Arabic literature. His most recent monograph is Geschichte des östlichen zaǧal (Ergon, 2020).Nefeli Papoutsakis, D.Phil. (2008), University of Oxford, is Senior Lecturer and Researcher at the University of Münster. She has published extensively on pre-modern Arabic literature. Her most recent monograph is Classical Arabic Begging Poetry and Šakwā, 8th-12th centuries (Harrassowitz, 2017).