Edited volumes
Understanding Near Eastern Literatures: A Spectrum of Interdisciplinary Approaches.
Literaturen im Kontext: Arabisch – Persisch - Türkisch, vol. 1. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2000.
The book opens up an interdisciplinary perspective on Middle Eastern literatures and engages in the ongoing dialogue with literary theory. It presents nineteen different readings of Arabic, Persian, and Turkish works of classical and modern times, which revive these texts and discuss selected theoretical models and their applicability and interdependence.
Writers and Rulers: Perspectives from Abbasid to Safavid Times.
Literaturen im Kontext: Arabisch – Persisch - Türkisch, vol. 16. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2004.
Nine essays examine how Arabic and Persian literature between the ninth and seventeenth centuries often served a twofold function: bringing rulers didactic, ethical, and ideological concerns, and ensuring livelihood, protection, and status of their authors. In order to counteract the higher power of an addressee, the writer, with the authority of religious law or ethical ideals, exercised criticism and praised the value of his own art. The rulers sought a place in literary tradition by means of death charges, praise poems, four-line poems, love letters, letters of officialdom, government statutes, dynastic historiography, princely mirrors and shadow play, while rulers pursued the public display of their education and generosity and their honorable afterlife.
Classical Arabic Humanities in Their Own Terms: Festschrift for Wolfhart Heinrichs on his 65th Birthday Presented by His Students and Colleagues.
Leiden: Brill, 2007.
The volume combines approaches to different elements of Arabic-Islamic literature, mainly in linguistics, literature, literary theory and prosody, but also includes religion, ritual, economy and zoology. Contributions also touch on the neighboring areas of ancient Iranian, Persian, Greek and Byzantine writing cultures. Some contributions take a particular Arabic word (cat, giraffe) or morphem as an approach; others examine literary genres (speech, qaṣīda, multilingual poem, travel description) or their characters (trickster, Satan). Cultural concepts such as desire, gift or discourse are treated, as well as aspects of extensive phenomena, such as the role of the giver in dream interpretation or the respective advantages of luxury and mass goods.
Edited Books
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An Unruly Classic: Kalīla and Dimna and Its Syriac, Arabic, and Early Persian Versions. Edited by Beatrice Gruendler and Isabel Toral, Leiden: Brill (forthcoming). |
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Framing Narratives in Premodern Literature: Arabic, Persian, Hebrew. Special Issue, Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies. Edited by Beatrice Gruendler and Johannes Stephan (forthcoming). |
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Philological Practices. A Comparative Historical Lexicon. Arabic section co-edited by Beatrice Gruendler. Volume editors Glenn W. Most, Anne Eusterschulte and Martin Kern, (forthcoming). |
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Classical Arabic Humanities in Their Own Terms: Festschrift for Wolfhart Heinrichs on his 65th Birthday Presented by His Students and Colleagues. Edited by Beatrice Gruendler, Leiden: Brill. |
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2004 |
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Writers and Rulers: Perspectives from Abbasid to Safavid Times. Edited by Beatrice Gruendler and Louise Marlow. Literaturen im Kontext: Arabisch – Persisch – Türkisch, vol. 16, Wiesbaden: Reichert. |
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2000 |
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Understanding Near Eastern Literatures: A Spectrum of Interdisciplinary Approaches. Edited by Verena Klemm. Literaturen im Kontext: Arabisch – Persisch – Türkisch, vol. 1, Wiesbaden: Reichert, |
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