The Arabic Literary Heritage

The Arabic Literary Heritage describes a cultural tradition of literary texts in Arabic from the fifth century A.D. to the present day. After two preliminary chapters on principles and contexts there are chapters devoted to the Qu''ran as literature poetry belles-lettrist prose drama and criticism. The volume as a whole which contains extensive quotations in English translation a chronology and a guide to further reading makes a major non-Western literary tradition newly accessible to students and scholars in the West.