The Qur’an and the Aesthetics of Premodern Arabic Prose

1. Introduction
Sarah R. Tyeer

Part I. حسن و قبح

2.
Ḥusn: The Route to a Conceptual Query
Sarah R. Tyeer

3.
Qubḥ and the Way to Hell
Sarah R. Tyeer

4. Hell and the Aesthetics of Qubḥ

Sarah R. Tyeer

5. Language: Beautiful Speech/Ugly Speech
Sarah R. Tyeer

Part II. Popular Literature: Thousand and One Nights

6. The Aesthetics of Reason
Sarah R. Tyeer

7. Of Misplacement of Things, People, and Decorum
Sarah R. Tyeer

8. The Transgression of Reason
Sarah R. Tyeer

Part III. Canonical Literature

9. Beautifying the Ugly and Uglifying the Beautiful
Sarah R. Tyeer

10. The Litterateurs of Hell and Heaven
Sarah R. Tyeer

11. CODA: The Interpretation and Misinterpretation of adab in Modern Scholarship
Sarah R. Tyeer

Keywords: Literature, Postcolonial/World Literature, Middle Eastern Literature, Literary History