Philip F. Kennedy is Professor of Arabic Literature at New York University. He is author of The Wine Song in Classical Arabic Poetry: Abu Nuwas and the literary tradition (1997) and General Editor of the Library of Arabic Literature, a joint project of the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute and NYU Press.

• Preface and AcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1. A Cognitive Reading of the Qurʾānic Story of JosephChapter 2. Joseph in The Life of Muḥammad: Prophecy in Tafsīr (Exegesis), Sīrah (Biography) and Ḥadīth (Tradition)Chapter 3. Joseph and His AvatarsChapter 4. Intertextuality and Reading: The Myth of Deliverance in al-Faraj baʿd al-ShiddahChapter 5. The Picaresque MaqāmahConclusionAppendix: anagnorisis in falsafahGlossaryBibliographyIndex

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Philip F. Kennedy is Professor of Arabic Literature at New York University. He is author of The Wine Song in Classical Arabic Poetry: Abu Nuwas and the literary tradition (1997) and General Editor of the Library of Arabic Literature, a joint project of the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute and NYU Press.

• Preface and AcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1. A Cognitive Reading of the Qurʾānic Story of JosephChapter 2. Joseph in The Life of Muḥammad: Prophecy in Tafsīr (Exegesis), Sīrah (Biography) and Ḥadīth (Tradition)Chapter 3. Joseph and His AvatarsChapter 4. Intertextuality and Reading: The Myth of Deliverance in al-Faraj baʿd al-ShiddahChapter 5. The Picaresque MaqāmahConclusionAppendix: anagnorisis in falsafahGlossaryBibliographyIndex

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Philip F. Kennedy is Professor of Arabic Literature at New York University. He is author of The Wine Song in Classical Arabic Poetry: Abu Nuwas and the literary tradition (1997) and General Editor of the Library of Arabic Literature, a joint project of the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute and NYU Press.

• Preface and AcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1. A Cognitive Reading of the Qurʾānic Story of JosephChapter 2. Joseph in The Life of Muḥammad: Prophecy in Tafsīr (Exegesis), Sīrah (Biography) and Ḥadīth (Tradition)Chapter 3. Joseph and His AvatarsChapter 4. Intertextuality and Reading: The Myth of Deliverance in al-Faraj baʿd al-ShiddahChapter 5. The Picaresque MaqāmahConclusionAppendix: anagnorisis in falsafahGlossaryBibliographyIndex

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