Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents VII
4. 1. Introduction 1
5. 2. Main categories of variance 11
6. 3. Means of stabilization 43
7. 4. Cultural background 53
8. 5. Corpus of Didactic Poems: Ibn Zurayq, al-Ūshī, Ibn al-Wardī, al-Laqānī 107
9. 6. Appendix I: Survey of didactic poems 257
10. 7. Appendix II: Synopses of textual variants 287
11. References 395
12. Index of work titles 403
13. Index of persons 413
14. Index of subjects, terms and toponyms 423