Abstract The relationship between poetry and the poet’s life is complex, reading a poem for biographical material can become problematic exercise that constrains poem’s interpretative possibilities. When writing about ʿUmar ibn Abī Rabīʿah (d. 93AH/712AD or 103/721), biographers historians have shown marked ambivalence in this regard. In early anecdotal narratives his romantic adventures, event...

Lorlene Hoyt addresses the difficult question of how the scholarship of engagement fits into, and is valued by, major research universities. Arguing that ‘[t]he thesis experiment is broken’ (p. 213), Hoyt sets out to redesign the individualised and isolating experience of writing a research thesis into a collaborative process driven by peer critique and support. This book presents the results o...