Arabic literature to the end of the Umayyad period / edited by A.F.L. Beeston [and others]. [electro...
Arabic literature to the end of the Umayyad period / edited by A.F.L. Beeston [and others]. [electro...
Arabic literature to the end of the Umayyad period / edited by A.F.L. Beeston [and others]. [electronic resource]
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1983.
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English
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Physical content
1 online resource (xvi, 547 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Content type
text
Media type
computer
Carrier type
online resource
Contents
Background topics / A.F.L. Beeston -- Pre-Islamic poetry / Abdullah El Tayib -- Early Arabic prose / R.B. Serjeant -- The beginnings of Arabic prose literature : the epistolary genre / J.D. Latham -- The role of parallelism in Arabic prose / A.F.L. Beeston -- The Qur'ān-I / R. Paret -- The Qur'ān-...
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Publisher
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1983.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
1983.
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Summary
Originally published in 1983, The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature was the first general survey of the field to have been published in English for over fifty years and the first attempted in such detail in a multi-volume form. The volumes of the History provide an invaluable source of reference and understanding of the intellectual, literary...
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Arabic literature to the end of the Umayyad period / edited by A.F.L. Beeston [and others]. [electronic resource]
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BOOK
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The Cambridge history of Arabic literature
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Nov 2015).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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English
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74VKVZRKeKod
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ISBN
0-511-65940-7
0-511-82642-7
1-316-02348-6
DDC
892/.7/09
MMS ID
991023970895402626
