Table of Contents

Introduction. Note on Conventions Part 1: Fact and Fiction 1. Ibn Zunbul and the Romance of History 2. History, Fiction and Authorship in the First Centuries of Islam 3. Meisami Writing Medieval Women: Representations and Misrepresentations Part 2: Appearance and Truth 4. Al-Jahiz’s Kitab al-Bayan wa al-Tabyin 5. The Maqamat as a Nexus of Interests: Reflections on Abdelfattah Kilito’s Les Séances 6. The Physical World and the Writer’s Eye

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Julia Bray