Ebook: Arabic literary salons in the Islamic Middle Ages: poetry, public performance, and the presentation of the past

Introduction -- Literary salons : outlines of a topic. Literary salons : from ancient symposion to Arabic mujālasat -- Adab principles of artistic speech in assembly -- Poetry performance and the reinterpreting of tradition -- The mujālasat as forum for reception. The poetics of sin and redemption : performing value and canonicity -- Al-Buḥturī's īwān kisrā ode: canonic value and folk literacy in the mujālasat -- Singing Samarra (861-956) : poetry, reception, and the reproduction of literary value in historical narrative -- Conclusion