Contributor
Allen, Roger, 1942- editor.
ImprintCambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Description1 online resource (ix, 481 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Note:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Nov 2015).
Note:The post-classical period : parameters and preliminaries / by Roger Allen -- Arabic poetry in the post-classical age / by Salma Khadra Jayyusi -- Poetic creativity in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries / by Muhammad Lutfi al-Yousfi -- Arabic religious poetry, 1200-1800 / by Th. Emil Homerin -- The role of the pre-modern : the generic characteristics of the band / by Abdullah Ibrahim -- Pre-modern belletristic prose / by Muhsin al-Musawi -- The essay and debate (al-risala and al-munazÐara) / by Jaakko Hameen-Anttila -- The maqama / by Devin Stewart -- Mamluk history and historians / by Robert Irwin -- Historiography in Arabic during the Ottoman period / by Michael Winter -- Popular poetry in the post-classical period, 1150-1850 / by Margaret Larkin -- Popular prose in the post-classical period / by Dwight F. Reynolds -- A thousand and one nights : a history of the text and its reception / by Dwight F. Reynolds -- Sirat Antar ibn Shaddad / by Remke Kruk -- Sirat Bani Hilal / by Dwight F. Reynolds -- Other siras and popular narratives / by Peter Heath -- Popular religious narratives / by Kamal Abdel-Malek -- Drama in the post-classical period : a survey / by Rosella Dorigo Ceccato -- Pre-modern drama / by Philip Sadgrove -- Criticism in the post-classical period : a survey / by William Smyth.
Note:The final volume of The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature explores the Arabic literary heritage of the little-known period from the twelfth to the beginning of the nineteenth century. Even though it was during this time that the famous Thousand and One Nights was composed, very little has been written on the literature of the period generally. In this volume Roger Allen and Donald Richards bring together some of the most distinguished scholars in the field to rectify the situation. The volume is divided into parts with the traditions of poetry and prose covered separately within both their 'elite' and 'popular' contexts. The last two sections are devoted to drama and the indigenous tradition of literary criticism. As the only work of its kind in English covering the post-classical period, this book promises to be a unique resource for students and scholars of Arabic literature for many years to come.
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