Margaret Larkin: The Present Poet: Abu'l Tayyib al-Mutanabbi (915-965) and the Politics of Individual Voice Then and Now

Part of the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages' Lecture Series on Arabic and Comparative Literatures.

Margaret Larkin is Associate Professor of Arabic Literature in the Department

of Near Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where she has

been teaching since 1997. Larkin is the author of The Theology of Meaning:

'Abd al-Qahir al-Jurjani's Theory of Discourse and articles on both classical

and modern Arabic literature in both standard and vernacular Arabic. She is at

work on a book about the tenth-century Arab poet, al-Mutanabbi, and is editing

a volume of essays on modern Moroccan fiction.