Dwight F. Reynolds is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Arab Folklore: A Handbook and editor and coauthor of Interpreting the Self: Autobiography in the Arabic Literary Tradition and The Cambridge Companion to Modern Arab Culture.
The richness of Reynolds’s text and his scholarly accomplishment
serve as poignant reminders of how little we know about Arab folk
performances and how difficult it is to teach these great
traditions to our students.
*Middle East Studies Association Bulletin*
Reynolds’s book both complements the works of his predecessors and
surpasses them in the area on which he focuses. With it, we have a
full and methodologically sophisticated treatment of the social
poetics of Sirat Bani Hilal performance that is a model of how such
research should be conducted.
*International Journal of Middle East Studies*
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