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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Note on Translation, Transliteration, the Titles of Arabic Poems, the Usage of the Amazigh/ Tamazight, and Other Language Choices xiii
5. Introduction: The Lost Wall of Gabès, ma ville natale 1
6. Part one. Rithāʾ al-Mudun: Maghribī Lamentations over Fallen Cities
7. Chapter one. Ibn Rashīq’s Mournful Elegy for the Destruction of Qayrawan 17
8. Chapter two. Ibn Sharaf’s Wailing Elegies for Qayrawan 34
9. Chapter three. Mourning over Palatial Ruins: Ibn Ḥammād al-Ṣanhājī’s Lament for Qalʿat Banī Ḥammād 43
10. Chapter four. The Dey’s Doomed Éventail: Ibn al-Shāhid’s Classical and Vernacular Cris over La Prise d’Alger 55
11. Part two. Al-Ḥanīn ilā al-Mudun: The Maghribī Poetics and Politics of Exilic Nostalgia
12. Chapter five. Al-Ḥuṣrī al-Ḍarīr A Blind Poet’s recherche de la Qayrawan perdue 71
13. Chapter six. The Exilic Tragedy of Ibn Khamīs: Granadian Longing for a Lost Tlemcen 87
14. Chapter seven “This Tunis, sir, was Carthage!” Abū al-Fatḥ al-Tūnisī’s Levantine Yearning for the Bride of the Maghrib 103
15. Chapter eight. Olives before Walls: Al-Tuhāmī Amghār’s Pastoral Nostalgia for Imperial Meknes 119
16. Conclusion: Towards a Maghribī Turn in Premodern Arabic Elegiac and Nostalgic City Poetry 132
17. Appendix. Original Arabic Texts of the Main Translated and Studied Poems 137
18. Notes 155
19. Index 231