Arabic Literature

Carter, M.G. “Arabic Literature.” Scholarly Editing: A Guide to Research. Ed. D.C. Greetham. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1995.

Notes

Referred to by al-Qadi in his discussion on the links between author and text.

p.556 The Islamic scriptorium – Carter lists other works that can be consulted (from al-Qadi, 30)

p.557 Centrality of the author in Islamic literature – “…the number of truly anonymous works in Islamic culture is by far lower than that of the same works in medieval European literature.” (al-Qadi, 30)