| A Literary History of the Arabs Revised Edition Contributor(s): Nicholson, Reynold a. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521095727 ISBN-13: 9780521095723 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $59.84 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1969 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | African - Language Arts & Disciplines |
| Dewey: 892.709 |
| LCCN: 72401710 |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.49 lbs) 538 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Arabs during a thousand years or more produced one of the richest and most extensive literatures of the world, embracing fine poetry (of the fierce desert life equally with the sophistication of royal courts), belles lettres (learned essays, satires, de arte amoris), religious, mystical and philosophical writings, and huge compendia of history, biography and geography. For sixty years, the best account in English of this vast output has been, by universal consent, R. A. Nicholson's Literary History of the Arabs; its supremacy will long remain unchallenged. That it is a book full of erudition and high critical judgement goes without saying; its author is also a poet-translator of rare excellence. |