Arabic Literature to the End of the Umayyad Period

Abstract

Editorial introduction Maps 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 Qur'an - I R. Paret 7. The Qur'an - II A. Jones 8. Qisas elements in the Qur'an H. T. Norris 9. Aspects of the Qur'an 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 N. J. Coulson 15. The impact of the Qur'an 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. Jayyusi 21. Music and verse O. Wright 22. The Greek impact on Arabic literature L. E. Goodman 23. The Persian impact on Arabic literature C. E. Bosworth 24. The Syrian impact on Arabic literature R. Y. Ebied Appendix J. D. Pearson Glossary List of sources Index.