TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beeston,A.F.L.
AU  - 
TI  - Arabic literature to the end of the Umayyad period /edited by A.F.L. Beeston ... [and others
AV  - PJ7510 .A733 1983
PY  - 1983///
CY  - Cambridge [Cambridgeshire], New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Arabic literature
KW  - 622-750
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - To 622
N1  - "Bibliography of translations of the Qur��an into European languages": pages 502-520; 1 (pages 530-539) and index; 1. Background topics; A.F.L. Beeston --; 2. Pre-Islamic poetry; Abdulla el Tayib --; 3. Early Arabic prose; R.B. Serjeant --; 4. The beginnings of Arabic prose literature: the epistolary genre; J.D. Latham - - 5. The role of parallelism in Arabic prose; A.F.L. Beeston --; 6. The Quran I; R. Paret --; 7. The Quran II; A. Jones --; 8. Qisas elements in the Quran; H.T. Norris --; 9. Aspects of the Quran today; Jacques Jomier - - 10. Hadith literature I: the development of the science of hadith; Muhammad Abdul Rauf --; 11. Hadith literature II: collection and transmission of hadith; Nabia Abbott --; 12. Shi'i hadith; E. Kohlberg --; 13. Narrative elements in the hadith literature; Sahair el Calamawy --; 14.  European criticism of hadith literature; New Jersey Coulson --; 15. The impact of the Quran and hadith on medieval Arabic literature; A.M. Zubaidi --; 16.  The maghazi literature; J.M.B. Jones --; 17. The sirah literature; M.J. Kister --; 18. The poetry of the sirah literature; James T. Monroe --; 19. Fables and legends in pre-Islamic and early Islamic times; H.T. Norris --; 20. Umayyad poetry; Salma K; 2
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