| Introduction | | Persons and Passions by Robin Ostle | | 1 |
| Pt. 1 | | Subversive Strategies | | |
| 1 | | Challenging Symbols of Power: Palaces and Castles in the Thousand and One Nights by Richard van Leeuwen | | 13 |
| 2 | | Fools and Rogues in Discourse and Disguise: Two Studies by Geert Jan van Gelder | | 27 |
| 3 | | Ibrahim Pasha and Sculpture as Subversion in Art by Filiz Yenishirlioglu | | 59 |
| Pt. 2 | | Self and Journey | | |
| | | Preface: The Journey as Metaphor by Richard van Leeuwen | | 81 |
| 4 | | Myths and Signs of Alienation Between 19 th-century Rihlat and Europe by Daniel Newman | | 85 |
| 5 | | Portrait of the Traveller as a Young Man: Mustafa Sami Efendi and his Essay on Europe by Laurent Mignon | | 103 |
| 6 | | Voyages of Self-definition: The Case of [Ahmad] Faris al-Shidyaq by Paul Starkey | | 118 |
| 7 | | The Journey in Two Arabic Novels by Richard van Leeuwen | | 133 |
| Pt. 3 | | Individual, Novel and Nation | | |
| 8 | | Bildungsroman, Individual and Society by Boutros Hallaq | | 149 |
| 9 | | Individual Sentiment and National Ideology by Robin Ostle | | 163 |
| 10 | | Mapping Arab Womanhood: Subject, Subjectivity and Identity Politics in the Biographies of Malak Hifni Nasif by Wen-chin Ouyang | | 174 |
| 11 | | Male Author, Female Protagonist: Aspects of Literary Representation in Resat Nuri Guntekins Calikusu by Stephan Guth | | 195 |
| Pt. 4 | | Individual and Community | | |
| 12 | | Marginalities in Palestinian Literature Two Case Studies: Imil Habibi and Tawfiq Fayyad by Anna Zambelli-Sessona | | 211 |
| 13 | | The Representation of the Coptic Christians of Alexandria in Turabuha Zafaran and Ya Banat Iskandariya by Idwar al-Kharrat by Emma Westney | | 245 |
| 14 | | Marginalised Communities, Marginalised Individuals in the Short Stories of Yusuf al-Sharuni by Kate Daniels | | 260 |
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