Wolfhart Heinrichs' Essays and Articles on Arabic Literature - Authors, Semitic Studies, and Islamic Jurisprudence

Wolfhart Heinrichs- Essays and Articles on Arabic Literature: Authors, Semitic Studies, and IslamicJurisprudence is the second of two volumes which showcase a great number of Heinrichs- writings on Arabic literature, Semitic Studies, and Islamic Jurisprudence.

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 Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums, and as an editor of and contributor to the Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second edition, 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.

This volume collects relevant bibliographical data, offers an introductory essay on the author by his distinguished student, Michael Cooperson (UCLA), and then presents r