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Arabic Oral Traditions
Oral Tradition
Volume 4, Number 1-2
January 1989
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Editor's Column
Qur’ān
Recitation: A Tradition of Oral Performance and Transmission
by Frederick M. Denny
Oral Traditions of the Prophet Muhammad: A Formulaic Approach
by R. Marston Speight
Which Came First, the
Zajal
or the
Muwaššḥa
?
Some Evidence for the Oral Origins of Hispano-Arabic Strophic Poetry
by James T. Monroe
From History to Fiction: The Tale Told by the King’s Steward in the
Thousand and One Nights
by Muhsin Mahdi
Sīrāt Banī Hilāl
: Introduction and Notes to an Arab Oral Epic Tradition
by Dwight F. Reynolds
Epic Splitting: An Arab Folk Gloss on the Meaning of the Hero Pattern
by Henry Massie, Bridget Connelly
Arabic Folk Epic and the Western
Chanson de Geste
by H.T. Norris
“Tonight My Gun is Loaded”: Poetic Dueling in Arabia
by Saad A. Sowayan
Sung Poetry in the Oral Tradition of the Gulf Region and the Arabian Peninsula
by Simon Jargy
The Development of Lebanese
Zajal
: Genre, Meter, and Verbal Duel
by Adnan Haydar
Palestinian Improvised-Sung Poetry: The Genres of
Hidā
and
Qarrādī
Performance and Transmission
by Dirghām H. Sbait
Banī Halba Classification of Poetic Genres
by Teirab AshShareef
Oral Transmission in Arabic Music, Past and Present
by George D. Sawa
Review
by Dwight F. Reynolds
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