Abbasid Belles Lettres
J.D. Latham, Julia Ashtiany, R.B. Serjeant, T.M. Johnstone
ISBN: | 9781316023495 |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Published: | 30 March, 1990 |
Format: | eBook |
Abbasid Belles Lettres
J.D. Latham, Julia Ashtiany, R.B. Serjeant, T.M. Johnstone
This volume of The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature covers artistic prose and poetry produced in the heartland and provinces of the 'Abbasid empire during the second great period of Arabic literature, from the mid-eighth to the thirteenth centuries AD. 'Abbasid literature was characterised by the emergence of many new genres and of a scholarly and sophisticated critical consciousness. This volume deals chronologically with the main genres and provides extended studies of major poets, prose
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