This paper explores various uses of the khabar, the basic constituent unit of classical Arabic prose, illustrating how authors and compilers across different disciplines are able to collect, mix and edit the same material in order to produce narratives which respond to specific aims. It also investigates the role of snippets of poetry within stories as kernels around which clusters of prose congregate to form a coherent story.
Tailors of Stories : biographers and the Lives of the khabar / L. Osti. - In: SYNERGIES MONDE ARABE. - ISSN 1766-2796. - 6:(2009), pp. 283-291.
Tailors of Stories : biographers and the Lives of the khabar
L. OstiPrimo
2009
Abstract
This paper explores various uses of the khabar, the basic constituent unit of classical Arabic prose, illustrating how authors and compilers across different disciplines are able to collect, mix and edit the same material in order to produce narratives which respond to specific aims. It also investigates the role of snippets of poetry within stories as kernels around which clusters of prose congregate to form a coherent story.
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