Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Note on Transliteration, Translations, Dates, and Sources vii
4. List of Abbreviations ix
5. Map 1. Pre-and Early Islamic Tribal Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula x
6. Introduction 1
7. PART I. FROM “PRE-ISLAMIC” TO LATE ANTIQUE TRIBALISMS
8. Chapter 1. Beyond the Jāhiliyyah: How Najdi Poetics Became Classical Arabic Poetry 17
9. Chapter 2. The Background to the Najdi-Hijazi Dichotomy: Arabians and Late Antique Empires Before 500 CE 47
10. Chapter 3. Development of Najdi and Hijazi Identities in Poetic Sources (500–622) 69
11. PART II. HIJAZI AND NAJDI REGIONAL IDENTITIES (500–632)
12. Chapter 4. Poetics of the Najdi Warrior Elite 97
13. Chapter 5. Hijazi Counterpoetics: The Case of Hudhayl 130
14. Chapter 6. Imagined Geographies 162
15. Chapter 7. Hijazi Imagined Geographies 183
16. PART III. ISLAM AND THE ASCENT OF NEO-NAJDI POETICS (632–750)
17. Chapter 8. Poets as Tribal Spokesmen in Early Islam (Before 692) 209
18. Chapter 9. Najdi Poetic Construction of Universal Arabo-Islam (After 692) 235
19. Conclusion 262
20. Appendix of Arabic Texts 265
21. Notes 289
22. Works Cited 331
23. General Index 349
24. Index of Poets 359
25. Acknowledgments 361