The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature
Subtitle: Arabic Literature in the Post-Classical Period (The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature)
Contributors: Roger Allen (Editor); D. S. Richards (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 24, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 492
ISBN-13: 9780521771603
Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Literature - Classics / Criticism; History and criticism; Literary Criticism; Language; Arabian peninsula; Saudi Arabia; Middle Eastern; Literary Criticism & Collections / European; Arabic literature; 1258-1800
First sentence: Arabic poetry in the post-classical period (c. 1250-1850) cannot in practice be studied in discrete fashion.