January 1989 Volume 4, Number 1-2 : Arabic Oral Traditions Download Media Front Matter Editor's Column Articles Palestinian Improvised-Sung Poetry: The Genres of Hidā and Qarrādī Performance and Transmission Dirghām H. Sbait Banī Halba Classification of Poetic Genres Teirab AshShareef Review Dwight F. Reynolds Qur’ān Recitation: A Tradition of Oral Performance and Transmission Frederick M. Denny The Development of Lebanese Zajal: Genre, Meter, and Verbal Duel Adnan Haydar Sung Poetry in the Oral Tradition of the Gulf Region and the Arabian Peninsula Simon Jargy From History to Fiction: The Tale Told by the King’s Steward in the Thousand and One Nights Muhsin Mahdi Epic Splitting: An Arab Folk Gloss on the Meaning of the Hero Pattern Bridget Connelly, Henry Massie Which Came First, the Zajal or the Muwaššḥa?Some Evidence for the Oral Origins of Hispano-Arabic Strophic Poetry James T. Monroe Arabic Folk Epic and the Western Chanson de Geste H.T. Norris Sīrāt Banī Hilāl: Introduction and Notes to an Arab Oral Epic Tradition Dwight F. Reynolds Oral Transmission in Arabic Music, Past and Present George D. Sawa “Tonight My Gun is Loaded”: Poetic Dueling in Arabia Saad A. Sowayan Oral Traditions of the Prophet Muhammad: A Formulaic Approach R. Marston Speight Supplemental Materials About the Authors
