Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Notes on Contributors vii
4. Acknowledgements xii
5. Foreword xiv
6. 1 The World Imaginaries of Islam: Islam and New Directions in World Literature 1
7. Tropes of Orientalism
8. 2 Los moros de la hueste: Recovering the Islamicate in the Goths’ Lament 57
9. 3 Just One Word 87
10. Sensory Fluctuations: Aural, Oral, Visual and Written
11. 4 Poems in Praise of the Prophet (madīḥ) as a Citizen of the Literary World 113
12. 5 The Place and Function of Imagination in Fulani Mystical Poetry (Massina, Mali) 139
13. 6 Vanishing Art, Genre-making: The Uyghur Storytelling Tradition and its Heritagisation 164
14. Circulation, Translation, Rereading
15. 7 Friedrich Rückert (1788–1866) and his Poetic Translation of the Qurʾān 193
16. 8 The ‘Islamic’ Arabian Nights in World Imaginaries 217
17. 9 Where is World Literature? 253
18. Secular–Non-secular
19. 10 Praising the Prophet Muḥammad in Chinese: A New Translation and Analysis of Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang’s Ode to the Prophet 271
20. 11 A Fine Romance: Translating the Qissah as World Romance 295
21. 12 Indonesia’s sastera profetik as Decolonial Literary Theory 328
22. Index 357