submitted

“Miscarriage of Justice and Dissenting Re(d)actions in Kalīla and Dimna,” in: Variants in Classical Textual Traditions: Errors, Innovations, Proliferation, Reception? Edited by Glenn W. Most, Berlin De Gruyter.

submitted

“Echoes of al-Mutanabbī’s Imagination,” in: Poetics before Modernity: Literary Theory in the West from Antiquity to 1700. Edited by Vladimir Brljak and Micha Lazarus, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Peer reviewed

With Mathew L. Keegan, “Before and After Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ, in: Journal of Abbasid Studies. Special Issue on Animals, Adab, and Fictivity II. Ed. by Beatrice Gruendler and Matthew L. Keegan (forthcoming).

Peer reviewed

With Khouloud Khalfallah, “Anthologizing Kalīla wa-Dimna:The Incipit of the First Risāla,” in: Journal of Abbasid Studies. Special Issue on Animals, Adab, and Fictivity II. Ed. by Beatrice Gruendler and Matthew L. Keegan (forthcoming).

Peer reviewed

With Isabel Toral, “Mouvance and variation” (introduction), in: An Unruly Classic: Kalīla and Dimna and Its Syriac, Arabic, and Early Persian Versions. Edited by B. Gruendler and I. Toral, Leiden: Brill (forthcoming).

Peer reviewed

“Continuum: The Interrelation of some Arabic Versions of Kalīla wa-Dimna,” in: An Unruly Classic: Kalīla and Dimna and Its Syriac, Arabic, and Early Persian Versions. Edited by B. Gruendler and I. Toral, Leiden: Brill (forthcoming).

2022

“A Rat and Its Redactors: Silent Co-Authorship in Kalīla wa-Dimna,” in: The Journeys of Kalīla and Dimna: Fables in the Literature and Arts et of the Islamic World. Ed. by Eloïse Brac de la Perrière, Aïda El Khiari, and Annie Vernay-Nouri, Leiden: Brill, 3-42.

2022

“City of Poets—Poets of the City,” in: Baghdād. From Its Beginnings to the 14^th Century. Ed. by Jens Scheiner and Isabel Toral-Niehoff, Leiden: Brill, 426-38.

2022

“Media in Flux: The Tale of the Yellow Folio from Kalīla wa-Dimna,” in Doing Justice to a Wronged Literature: Essays on Arabic Literature and Rhetoric of the 12^th to 18^th Centuries in Honour of Thomas Bauer. Ed. by Hakan Özkan and Nefeli Papoutsakis, Leiden: Brill, 147-72.

2021

With Dima Mustafa Sakran, “A Redactor at Work: Discoveries in MS Vat. Borg. ar. 213 of Kalīla wa-Dimna,” Geschichte der Philologien 59/60:37-52.

2020

et al., “An Interim Report on the Editorial and Analytical Work of the AnonymClassic Project’, Medieval Worlds, medieval worlds 11: 241–279. https://doi.org/10.1553/medievalworlds_no11_2020s241.

2019/2018

“Kalīla wa-Dimna: A Unique Work of World Literature / Kalīla wa-Dimna: Ein einzigartiges Werk der Weltliteratur / Kalīla wa-Dimna: Farīd al-ʿadab al-ʿālamī.” in: Arab and German Tales: Transcending Cultures / Ḥikāyāt ʿarabiyya wa-almāniyya: thaqāfa ʿābira li-l-ḥudūd. Ed. by Verena Lepper and Sara Aisha Sabea, Berlin: Kadmos, 2018, 67-68, 175-77, and [Arabic pagination] 56-57. Republished in 2019 as Cinderella, Sindbad & Sinuhe: Arab-German Storytelling Traditions.

2017

“Literary Sweets: Interlacing motifs in the Sukkardān al-Sulṭān of Ibn Abī Ḥaǧalah (1325-1375),” in: The Sultan’s Anthologist — Ibn Abī Ḥaǧalah and His Work.

Ed. by Nefeli Papoutsakis and Syrinx von Hees, Baden Baden: Ergon, 71-100.

2017

“The Arabic Anonymous in a World Classic (Acronym: AnonymClassic): Presentation of a Research Project,” Geschichte der Germanistik 51/52:156-57.

2017

“Modernity in the Ninth Century: The Controversy around Abū Tammām,” Studia Islamica 112:131-48.

2017

“Abbasid Poets and the Qur’ān,” in:The Qur’an and Adab: The Shaping of Literary Traditions
in Classical Islam. Ed. by Nuha Alsha’ar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017, 137-69.

2017

“Chiffre und Spielfeld. Kleine Mediengeschichte der arabischen Schrift,“ in: Götter und Schriften rund ums Mittelmeer. Ed. Friedrich Kittler. München: Fink Verlag, 57-93.

2016

„Islam,“ in: Handbuch Literatur und Religion. Ed. by Daniel Weidner. Stuttgart: Metzler, 101-12.

2016

“Aspects of Craft the Arabic Book Revolution,” in: Globalization of Knowledge in the Post-Antique Mediterranean, 700 - 1500. Ed. By Jürgen Renn and Sonja Bentjes. London and New York: Routledge, 31-66.

2016

“Leaving Home: Al-ḥanīn ilā l-awṭān and its alternatives in classical Arabic literature,” in: Visions and Representations of Homeland in Modern Arabic Poetry and Prose Literature.  Ed. by Sebastian Günther and Stephan Milich. Hildesheim, Zurich, and New York: Georg
Olms Publishers, 1-41.

2016

“Arabische Literatur,” co-authored with Verena Klemm and Barbara Winckler, in: Islam. Einheit und Vielfalt einer Weltreligion. Ed. by Rainer Brunner. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer Verlag, 349-78.

2015

“Arabic Philology through the Ages,” in: World Philology. Edited by Kevin Chang, Benjamin Elman, and Sheldon Pollock. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 92-113.

2014

“Philological Vignettes from (Near) East to West,” in: Geschichte der Germanistik 45/46, 71-74.

2014

“‘That You Be Brought Near.’ Union beyond the Grave in the Arabic Literary Tradition,” in: Love after Death. Edited by Bernhard Jussen and Ramie Targoff. Berlin: de Gruyter, 71-95.

2013

“Les versions de Kalīla wa-Dimna: und transmission et une circulation mouvantes” in: Énoncés sapientiels et littérature exemplaire: une intertextualité complexe. Ed. by Marie-Sol Ortola. Nancy: Éditions Universitaires de Lorraine, 385-416.

2012

“Stability and Change in Arabic Script,”in: The Shape of Script: How and Why Writing Systems Change. Ed. by Stephen Houston.Publications of the School of Advanced Research, Santa Fe, 93-118.

2012

Book Culture before Print: The Early History of Arabic Media. The American University
of Beirut, The Margaret Weyerhaeuser Jewett Chair of Arabic. Occasional Papers.

2012

“In Aristotle’s Words… al-Ḥātimī’s (?) Epistle on al-Mutanabbī and Aristotle,” in: Islamic Philosophy, Science, Culture, and Religion: Studies in Honor of Dimitri Gutas. Ed. by Felizitas Opwis and David Reismann, Leiden and New York: Brill, 98-129.

2011

“Pre-Modern Arabic Philologists: Poets’ friends or foes?” Geschichte der Germanistik 39/40,
6-21.

2011

“Farewell to Ghazal. Convention and Danger of the Arabic Love Lyric,” in: Poetry and History: The Value of Poetry in Reconstructing Arab History. Ed. by Ramzi Baalbaki et al. Beirut: The American University of Beirut, 137-72.

2010

“al-ʿAskarī, Abū Ahmad,” in: Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE, ed. by Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas and Everett Rowson, Brill, 2010, Brill Online.

http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-3/al-askari-abu-ahmad-COM_22689?s.num=0&s.q=al-%CA%BFAskar%C4%AB%2C+Ab%C5%AB+Ahmad

2009

“Ibn Abī Ḥajala,” in: Essays in Arabic Literary Biography. Ed. by Joseph Lowry and Devin Stewart. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 118-25.

2009

“Tawqīʿ (Apostille): Verbal Economy in Verdicts of Tort Redress,” in: The Weaving of Words: Approaches to Classical Arabic Literature. Ed. by Lale Behzadi and Vahid Behmardi. Beirut-Wiesbaden: Ergon, 101-29.

2008

“Abstract Aesthetics and Practical Criticism in 9^th Century Baghdad,” in: Takhyīl: The  Imaginary in Classical Arabic Poetics. Ed. by Marlé Hammond and Geert Jan van Gelder, 196-220. Oxford: Gibb Memorial Trust.

2008

“Originality in Imitation: Two Muʿāraḍas by Ibn Darrāj al-Qasṭallī,” Al-Qantara 29.2, Special Issue on Patronage, ed. by Esperanza Alfonso, 437-65.

2008

“Abū Tammām,” in: Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE. Ed. by Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas and Everett Rowson, Brill Online. http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-3/abu-tammam-SIM_0035?s.num=2&s.q=Ab%C5%AB+Tamm%C4%81m

2008

“al-ʿAskarī, Abū Hilāl,” in: Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE, 2: 162-65. http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-3/al-askari-abu-hilal-SIM_0230?s.num=0&s.q=al-%CA%BFAskar%C4%AB%2C+Ab%C5%AB+Hil%C4%81l

2007

“The Reconstruction of the Qasida in Performance and Reception,” in: Classical Arabic Humanities in Their Own Terms. Ed. by Beatrice Gruendler, Leiden: Brill, 325-89.

2006

“Arabic Alphabet: Origin,” in: Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics. Ed. by Kees Versteegh, 4 vols., Leiden: Brill, vol. 1:148-65.

2006

“Arabic Language,” in: Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia. Ed. by Josef W. Meri, 2 vols., London: Routledge, vol. 1:56-59.

2006

“Preface: Laudatio Renate Jacobi,” in: Reflections on Reflections: Near Eastern Writers Reading Literature. Ed. by Angelika Neuwirth and Andreas Islebe, Wiesbaden: Reichert, ix-xiii.

2005

“Verse and Taxes: The Function of Poetry in Selected Literary Akhbār of the Third/Ninth Century,” in: On Fiction and Adab in Medieval Arabic Literature. Ed. by Philip F. Kennedy, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 85-124.

2005

“Meeting the Patron: An Akhbār Type and Its Implications for Muhdath Poetry,” in: Ideas, Images, Methods of Portrayal: Insights into Arabic Literature and Islam. Ed. by Sebastian Günther. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 59-88.

2005

“Motif vs. Genre: Reflections on the Dīwān al-Maʿānī of Abū Hilāl al-ʿAskarī,” in: Ghazal as World Literature I: Transformations of a Literary Genre. Beiruter Texte und Studien 89. Ed. by Thomas Bauer and Angelika Neuwirth, Beirut-Stuttgart: Ergon, 57-85.

200a

“Ibn al-Rūmī,” in: Dictionary of Literary Biography vol. 311: Arabic Literary Culture, c. 500-925. Ed. by Shawkat Toorawa and Michael Cooperson. Detroit: Thomson and Gale, 184-92.

2004

“‘Pardon Those Who Love Passionately:’ A Theologian’s Endorsement of Shahādat al-ʿIshq,” in: Martyrdom in Literature: Visions of Death and Meaningful Suffering in Europe and the Middle East from Antiquity to Modernity. Ed. by Friederike Pannewick. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 189-236.

2004

“Sheets,” in: Encyclopedia of the Qurʾān (EQ). Ed. by Jane D. McAuliffe et al., Leiden: Brill, vol. 4: 587-9.

2001

“Lightning and Memory in Poetic Fragments from the Muslim West: Ḥafṣa bt. al-Ḥājj (d. 1191) and Ṣārah al-Ḥalabiyya (d. c. 1300),” in: Crisis and Memory in Islamic Societies, Beiruter Texte und Studien 77. Ed. by Angelika Neuwirth and Andreas Pflitsch, Beirut, Würzburg, 435-52.     

2001

“Arabic Script,” in: Encyclopedia of the Qurʾān (EQ). Ed. by Jane D. McAuliffe et al., Leiden: Brill, vol. 1: 135-44. Polish trans. in volume on the Qur’an, Publ. of the University of Wroclaw (in press).

2000

“The Qasida,” in: The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature: The Literature of Al-Andalus. Ed. by Maria Menocal, Raymond Scheindlin, and Michael Sells, Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, 211-31.

2000

rpt 2009

“Abbasid Praise Poetry in the Light of Speech Act Theory and Dramatic Discourse,” in: Understanding Near Eastern Literatures: A Spectrum of Interdisciplinary Approaches,
Literaturen im Kontext: Arabisch – Persisch – Türkisch, vol. 1. Ed. by Beatrice Gruendler and Verena Klemm, Wiesbaden, 157-69.

Reprinted in: Early Islamic Poetry and Poetics. Ed. by Suzanne P. Stetkeych, Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate.

1999

“The Motif of Marriage in Select Abbasid Panegyrics,” in: Myths, Historical Archetypes and Symbolic Figures in Arabic Literature: Towards a New Hermeneutic Approach (Proceedings of the International Symposium in Beirut, June 25th –June 30th 1996). Beiruter Texte und Studien 64. Ed. by Angelika Neuwirth, Birgit Embaló, Sebastian Günther, and Maher Jarrar, Beirut-Stuttgart: Steiner, 109-22.                                                 

1997

“The Motif of Marriage in Some Abbasid Panegyrics” (précis), al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 7 (1997), 4-5 and 13-14.

1996

“Ibn al-Rūmī’s Ethics of Patronage,” in: The Harvard Middle Eastern and Islamic Review III:104-60.