ReviewAlexander E. Elinson, Looking Back at al-Andalus: The Poetics of Loss and Nostalgia in Medieval Arabic and Hebrew Literature. (Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures 34.) Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2009. Pp. 198; color figs. $129. ISBN: 9789004166806.

Abstract

an l or not recognizing the nasal bar abbreviations written over words) justifies the corrections that supplement the rectifications that Tinius had proposed for Abel's edition. This level of detail is necessary, according to Duval, so that the text stratum created by Abel remains a visible layer in the new edition (147).