Ethics and Poetry in Sixth-Century Arabia

Ethics and Poetry: The Inseparable Equation

Note on the Use of Dictionaries

Unities of Functional Idiosyncrasy

Matrices and Metanarratives

The Jumbled Mind and the Rhetoric of Vision

Cohesions

The Poet Resuscitated

The Purpose-free and the Purposeful

The Art of the Poet Unconscious

Perambulation around Parataxis, True Love and Sin

Return to the Jāhilīya: How Does a Poem Work?

ultimate life-changer for me, of course, though, has been the arrival of the three jays: Jeremy and Joseph, with their unconditional support and love; and Josh, who let me understand, first hand, the canine-tooth of Fortune, and made me a better person. I dedicate this book to them, and to my late father and mother, Hanna and Aziza Jamil.

People may say, sometimes too easily, that their gratitude is eternal for something that changed their life, and that they will never be able to repay; but, in my case, this is completely true.