Volume 13, Issue 3, December 2022
Table of Content
Editors’ introduction
Approaching Islamicate fictionalities
N. İpek Hüner Cora, Sam Lasman, Rachel Schine
Original Article
Narration as Raumschach: Kalila and Dimna in time, space and languages
Karla Mallette
Original Article
The Gender of Magic: Constructions of nonbinary gender categories in Sīrat Sayf ibn Dhī Yazan
Samantha Pellegrino
Original Article
‘This world is like a water-wheel’: Alexander and Darius in the mirror
Alex MacFarlane
Original Article
A monstrous king and a forged prophecy: Parody, invention, and social hierarchy in the Kushnāmeh
Kaveh L. Hemmat
Original Article
Rewriting the wild: Fiction, adab, and the making of Majnun’s animal world
Allison Kanner-Botan
Original Article
‘…The enemy is close and in this sad story, Ximena is the Cid’: Reading The Moor’s Last Sigh in light of Salman Rushdie’s sources
S. J. Pearce
Original Article
In the Name of Shirāz: The stone mosques of the East African coast reconsidered
Sylvia Wu
Original Article
Fictional(ised) beginnings of the Ottoman Dynasty: Notes on the Hikâyet-ı Zuhûr-ı Âl-i ‘Osmân
R. Aslıhan Aksoy Sheridan
Original Article
Skulls, worms, and angels: Teaching ritual through the grave in an Aljamiado Ḥadīth
Elizabeth Spragins
Original Article
Motivated fictionality: Worldbuilding and The Thousand and One Nights
Meriam Soltan
Roundtable
Fictionalities in medieval Arabic texts: A roundtable
Michael Cooperson, Hussein Fancy, Michelle Karnes, Maurice A. Pomerantz
Book Review Essay
From the Golden Age to the Kali Age: The evolution of the Qissa/Romance genre in South Asia
Amber Elisabeth Peters