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  3. Arabic Literature to the End of the Umayyad Period
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      28 May 2012
      03 November 1983
      ISBN:
      9780511659409
      9780521240154
      9780521126212
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521240154
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.96kg, 568 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.82kg, 568 Pages
      • Series:
      The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature
      Subjects:
      Literature, Middle East Studies, Area Studies, European and World Literature: General Interest
      Collection:
      Cambridge Histories - Literature
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    Series:
    The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature
    Subjects:
    Literature, Middle East Studies, Area Studies, European and World Literature: General Interest
    Collection:
    Cambridge Histories - Literature
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    Originally published in 1983, The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature was the first general survey of the field to have been published in English for over fifty years and the first attempted in such detail in a multi-volume form. The volumes of the History provide an invaluable source of reference and understanding of the intellectual, literary and religious heritage of the Arabic-speaking and Islamic world. This volume begins its coverage with the oral verse of the sixth century AD, and ends with the fall of the Umayyad dynasty two centuries later. Within this period fall major events: the life of the Prophet Muhammad, the founding of the Islamic religion, the great Arab Islamic conquests of territories outside the Arabian Peninsula, and their meeting, as overlords, with the Byzantine and Sasanian world. Contributors to this volume discuss an array of topics including the influences of Greeks, Persians and Syrians on early Arabic literature.

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