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
3 References
4 External links

Genres and Forms

Noted Authors

Historical

  • 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)

Modern

References

  • 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

External links

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