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٤٢٦ 426 About the Editor-Translators Geert Jan van Gelder was Laudian Professor of Arabic at the University of Oxford from 1998 to 2012. He has published widely on classical Arabic literature in Dutch and English, particularly on the history of poetics and criticism and on literary themes as diverse as food, the hammam, and incest. His books include Beyond the Line: Classical Arabic Literary Critics on the Coherence and Unity of the Poem and Of Dishes and Discourse: Classical Arabic Literary Representations of Food. Gregor Schoeler was the chair of Islamic Studies at the University of Basel from 1982 to 2009. His books in the fields of Islamic Studies and classical Arabic literature include The Oral and the Written in Early Islam, and Paradies und Hölle, a partial German translation of The Epistle of Forgiveness. ...

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