Lives in Adab: Essays in Honour of Julia Bray

Essays and translations by modern-day scholars organised along the principles of the Arabic narrative tradition. Essays by leading scholars from across the genres and disciplines of premodern Arabic. Translations and commentaries of important and insufficiently known primary texts together with the Arabic original text of poems. Cross-genre and cross-disciplinary connections – catalyzing future research. Shows how a key feature of the Arabic literary tradition is relevant to how we think about scholarship today. Provides readers with both an academic resource and an intellectual conversation with the past.