Wolfhart Heinrichs' Essays and Articles on Arabic Literature

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<p><i>Wolfhart Heinrichs¿ Essays and Articles on Arabic Literature: Authors, Semitic Studies, and Islamic</i><i>Jurisprudence</i> is the second of two volumes which showcase a great number of Heinrichs¿ writings on Arabic literature, Semitic Studies, and Islamic Jurisprudence.</p><p>Wolfhart Heinrichs (1941-2014) was James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic at Harvard University. He is remembered as a significant adviser to Fuat Sezgin's fundamental <i>Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums</i>, and as an editor of and contributor to the <i>Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second edition</i>, and, most importantly, as an author of many independent studies on Arabic literature, many of them ground-breaking in the history of Arabic philology. He is also known for his studies on Semitic Linguistics and Islamic Jurisprudence.</p><p>This volume collects relevant bibliographical data, offers an introductory essay on the author by his distinguished student, Michael Cooperson (UCLA), and then presents r