Thomas Hefter is Lecturer of Arabic at Princeton University. He earned his PhD in Classical Arabic Literature from the University of Chicago, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. He has taught at the American University in Cairo and the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.

• IntroductionThe Addressee and the Occasion of WritingEpistolary Confrontations and Dialectics of ParodyUndisclosed Origins and HomelandsFaulting Misers in the Introduction of Kitāb al-BukhalāPassive Addressee and Critical Reader in the Ab al-/Ibn al-Tawam DebateConclusionBibliographyIndex

Thomas Hefter is Lecturer of Arabic at Princeton University. He earned his PhD in Classical Arabic Literature from the University of Chicago, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. He has taught at the American University in Cairo and the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.

• IntroductionThe Addressee and the Occasion of WritingEpistolary Confrontations and Dialectics of ParodyUndisclosed Origins and HomelandsFaulting Misers in the Introduction of Kitāb al-BukhalāPassive Addressee and Critical Reader in the Ab al-/Ibn al-Tawam DebateConclusionBibliographyIndex

Thomas Hefter is Lecturer of Arabic at Princeton University. He earned his PhD in Classical Arabic Literature from the University of Chicago, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. He has taught at the American University in Cairo and the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.

• IntroductionThe Addressee and the Occasion of WritingEpistolary Confrontations and Dialectics of ParodyUndisclosed Origins and HomelandsFaulting Misers in the Introduction of Kitāb al-BukhalāPassive Addressee and Critical Reader in the Ab al-/Ibn al-Tawam DebateConclusionBibliographyIndex