Arabic Literature in the Post-Classical Period

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Roger Allen, D. S. Richards
Cambridge University Press, Apr 13, 2006 - Literary Criticism - 481 pages
The final volume of The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature explores the Arabic literary heritage of the little-known period from the twelfth to the beginning of the nineteenth century. Even though it was during this time that the famous Thousand and One Nights was composed, very little has been written on the literature of the period generally. In this volume Roger Allen and Donald Richards bring together some of the most distinguished scholars in the field to rectify the situation. The volume is divided into parts with the traditions of poetry and prose covered separately within both their 'elite' and 'popular' contexts. The last two sections are devoted to drama and the indigenous tradition of literary criticism. As the only work of its kind in English covering the post-classical period, this book promises to be a unique resource for students and scholars of Arabic literature for many years to come.
 

Contents

Section 1
3
Section 2
25
Section 3
26
Section 4
60
Section 5
74
Section 6
87
Section 7
101
Section 8
102
Section 21
187
Section 22
191
Section 23
211
Section 24
245
Section 25
256
Section 26
261
Section 27
270
Section 28
281

Section 9
109
Section 10
117
Section 11
118
Section 12
119
Section 13
127
Section 14
130
Section 15
134
Section 16
145
Section 17
159
Section 18
171
Section 19
172
Section 20
184
Section 29
292
Section 30
307
Section 31
309
Section 32
319
Section 33
330
Section 34
343
Section 35
347
Section 36
369
Section 37
376
Section 38
379
Section 39
387
Section 40
408

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Roger Allen is Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, USA. He is the author of The Arabic Novel (1982, 1995) and The Arabic Literary Heritage (1998). He currently serves in an editorial capacity for the journal, Middle Eastern Literatures and the Arabic Literature Series of the Dictionary of Literary Biography. D. S. Richards is Emeritus Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford, and University Lecturer in Arabic (retired). He is the joint author of Mamluk Jerusalem (1987), translator of Ibn Shaddad's Life of Saladin (2001) and The Annals of the Turks (RoutledgeCurzon, 2002) and author of articles on mediaeval Islamic history for various scholarly journals.

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