Edited by Monica Balda-Tillier and Adam Talib.
Special Issue of Annales Islamologiques (Volume 49, Cairo: Institut français d’archéologie orientale, 2016).
The issue gathers studies that revisit Arabic literary production between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries, a period too often treated as marginal in older literary histories. Its introduction and six dossier articles describe renewed attention to post-classical Arabic writing through case studies of lesser-known authors, embedded poems, love treatises, shadow theatre, robbers, hashish, and other subjects that reveal the period’s creative vitality.