Item type | Current library | Home library | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Books | American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | PJ 7694 .E1 N54 2001 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 648394 |
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PJ 7694 .E1 C56 2010 Classical Arabic stories : an anthology / | PJ 7694 .E1 K7 1975 Anthology of Islamic literature, from the rise of Islam to modern times. | PJ 7694 .E1 L5 1988 The Literature of modern Arabia : an anthology / | PJ 7694 .E1 N54 2001 Night and horses and the desert : an anthology of classical Arabic literature / | PJ 7694 .E1 P46 2006 The Penguin anthology of classical Arabic literature / | PJ 7694 .E3 C55 1999 Classical poems by Arab women / | PJ 7694 .E3 M64 1987 Modern Arabic poetry : an anthology / |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [xv]-xviii) and index.
This uniquely comprehensive anthology at last brings the astonishing grandeur and variety of classical Arabic literature to the Western audience.
The distinguished Arabist Robert Irwin presents dazzling excerpts from works both renowned (The Qur'an, The Thousand and One Nights) and esoteric (Ibn Wasshiya's "Book of Poisons, " the dashing Byronic poetry of Imru' al-Qays). Selections are accompanied by Irwin's erudite commentaries, which illuminate the reader on the cultural and historical context of these works. Spanning the fifth to sixteenth centuries and societies from Afghanistan to Spain, this is a captivating and invaluable guide to one of the world's great bodies of literature.
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