| Acknowledgements | vii | |
| Foreword by Professor Clive Holes | xi | |
| Introduction | xvii | |
| The Transcription of Both Classical and Colloquial Arabic | xx | |
| Part 1. Fact Finding | ||
| 1. | Arabic Literatures, ‘Elite’ and ‘Folk’–Junctions and Disjunctions Quaderni di Studi Arabi, Nuova serie, 3 (2008) | 3 |
| 2. | The Egyptian Mawwāl: Its Ancestry, its Development, and its Present Forms Journal of Arabic Literature, 8 (1977) | 19 |
| 3. | The Nahda’s First Stirrings of Interest in Alf Layla (previously unpublished). | 42 |
| 4. | The Career of Muṣṭafā >Ibrāhɪm | 51 |
| Part 2. Single or Related Items | ||
| 5. | The Prophet’s Shirt: Three Versions of an Egyptian Narrative Ballad Journal of Semitic Studies, 26, 1 (1981) | 61 |
| 6. | An Uncommon Use of Nonsense Verse in Colloquial Arabic Journal of Arabic Literature, 14 (1983) | 89 |
| 7. | An Early Example of Narrative Verse in Colloquial Arabic Journal of Arabic Literature, 21, 2 (September 1990) | 96 |
| 8. | An Incomplete Egyptian Ballad on the 1956 War Tradition and Modernity in Arabic Language and Literature, ed. J. R. Smart (Richmond, 1996) | 102 |
| 9. | An Honour Crime with a Difference first published as ‘Three Versions of an Egyptian Narrative Ballad’, Proceedings of First International Conference on Middle Eastern Popular Culture, Magdalen College, Oxford (17–21 September 2000) | 112 |
| 10. | Pulp Stories in the Repertoire of Egyptian Folk Singers British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 33, 2 (November 2006) | 119 |
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Publication information:
Book title: Exploring Arab Folk Literature.
Contributors: Pierre Cachia - Author.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press.
Place of publication: Edinburgh.
Publication year: 2011.
Page number: v.
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