A Literary History of the Arabs
Reynold A. Nicholson, a Cambridge scholar of Arabic and Persian, published A Literary History of the Arabs in 1907, and it long served as the standard English introduction to the subject. Nicholson begins with the kingdoms of southern Arabia and the history, legends, poetry, manners and religion of the pagan Arabs, then turns to the Prophet and the Koran, the orthodox caliphate and the Umayyads, and the flourishing of learning, poetry and prose under the Abbasids, with chapters on Muslim Spain and Sicily and on the later periods. He translates generously, letting the poets and historians speak, and treats literature, religion and politics as closely bound together. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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