Arabic Literature to the End of the Umayyad Period (The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521126215 ISBN 13: 9780521126212

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

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 and religious heritage of the Arabic-speaking and Islamic world. This volume begins its coverage with the oral verse of the sixth century AD, and ends with the fall of the Umayyad dynasty two centuries later. Within this period fall major events: the life of the Prophet Muhammad, the founding of the Islamic religion, the great Arab Islamic conquests of territories outside the Arabian Peninsula, and their meeting, as overlords, with the Byzantine and Sasanian world. Contributors to this volume discuss an array of topics including the influences of Greeks, Persians and Syrians on early Arabic literature.

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Book Description

Contributors to this volume, which ranges from the sixth century A.D. to the fall of the Umayyad dynasty two centuries later, discuss the nature of the Arabic language and the Arabic book; pre-Islamic literature; the Qur'an itself; the body of Hadith literature that records the traditions of the Prophet.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0521126215
• ISBN 13: 9780521126212
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 568
• Editor: Beeston A. F. L., Johnstone T. M., Serjeant R. B., Smith G. R.