Arabic literature

Arabic literature is literature written in Arabic, or by Arabs in other languages.

Table of contents

1 Genres and Forms
2 Noted Authors

2.1 Historical
2.2 Modern

3 References
4 External links

Genres and Forms

Antara Ibn Shaddad al-'Absi, pre-Islamic Arab hero and poet (fl. 580 CE).
Abu Nuwas, poet (756-815)
al-Mutanabbi, poet (915-965)
al-Hariri (1054-1122)
Muhammad al-Nawaji bin Hasan bin Ali bin Othman, Cairene mystic, Sufi and poet (1383?-1455)

Tayeb Salih
Abdul Rahman Munif
Naguib Mahfouz, (1911- ) Nobel Prize for Literature (1988), famous for the Cairo Trilogy about life in the sprawling inner city.

Roger Allen, The Arabic Novel: An Historical and Critical Introduction (1982) ISBN 0950788503.
Alamgir Hashmi, The Worlds of Muslim Imagination (1986) ISBN 0005004071.
Cambridge History of Arabic Literature, multiple authors and editors
- Arabic Literature to the End of the Umayyad Period (1983) ISBN 0521240158
- 'Abbasid Belles Lettres (1990) ISBN 0521240166
- Religion, Learning and Science in the 'Abbasid Period (1991) ISBN 0521327636
- The Literature of Al-Andalus (2000) ISBN 0521471591
- Modern Arabic Literature (1993) ISBN 0521331978

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