Intro -- Note to Readers -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Preamble: Growth and Graft -- Part 1 -- On Wholeness -- A Bounding Line -- The Sum of its Parts -- Part 2 -- Arabic Poetry, Greek Terminology -- Preliminary Remarks -- Epigrams in the World -- Hegemonic Presumptions and Atomic Fallout -- Epigrams in Parallax -- Appendix -- Corpus of Maqāṭīʿ-Material -- Annotated Bibliography of Unpublished Sources -- Sources -- Index