City in Arabic Literature

Nizar F. Hermes is Assistant Professor of Arabic Literature and Culture at the University of Virginia. He is author of The [European] Other in Medieval Arabic Literature and Culture, Ninth-Twelfth Century AD (2012). Gretchen Head is Assistant Professor of Literature in the Humanities Division at Yale-NUS College in Singapore.

• Editors’ Preface Chapter 1 The Untranslatability of the Qurʾānic City by Mohammad Salama Chapter 2 Local Historians and their Cities: the Urban Topography of al-Azdī’s Mosul and al- Sahmī’s Jurjan by Harry MuntChapter 3 Against Cities: On Hijā’ al-Mudun in Arabic Poetry by Huda Fakhreddine and Bilal Orfali Chapter 4 The Literary Geography of Meaning in the Maqāmāt of al-Hamadhānī and al-Hòarīrī by Sarah R. bin TyeerChapter 5 "Woe is me for Qayrawan!" Ibn Sharaf's Lāmiyya, the Plight of Refugees and the Cityscape by Nizar F. HermesChapter 6 In Memory of al-Andalus: Using the Elegy to Reimagine the Literary and Literal Geography of Cordobaby Anna CruzChapter 7 The Mamluk City as Overlapping Personal Networksby Kelly TuttleChapter 8 Citystruckby Adam TalibChapter 9 Between Utopia and Dystopia in Marrakechby Gretchen HeadChapter 10 Revolutionary Cityscapes: Yūsuf Idrīs and the National Imaginaryby Yasmine RamadanChapter 11 Lost Cities, Vanished Worlds: Configurations of Urban Autobiographical Identity in the Arabic Literature of the 1980s by Valerie Anishchenkova Chapter 12 The Sufis of Baghdad: A Topographical Index of the Cityby Boutheina Khaldi Chapter 13 Basòrayātha: Self-Portrait as a Cityby William Maynard Hutchins Chapter 14 Of Cities and Canons in an Age of Comparative Consumptionby Hanadi Al-Samman Chapter 15 Everyday Writing in an Extraordinary Cityby Ghenwa HayekChapter 16 Translating Cairo’s Hidden Lines: The City as Visual Text in Magdy El Shafee’s Metroby Chip Rossetti