Roger Allen here offers an account of the cultural tradition of
literary texts in Arabic, from their unknown beginnings in the
fifth century AD to the present day. Allen's organising principle
is not that of traditional literary histories, but is rather based
on an account of the major genres of Arabic literature. After
introductory chapters on principles and contexts, there are
chapters devoted to the Qur'an as literature, poetry, belletristic
prose, drama and criticism. Within each chapter the emphasis is on
the texts themselves, and those who created and commented on them,
but Allen also demonstrates his awareness of recent Western
theoretical and critical approaches. The volume as a whole, which
contains extensive quotations in English translation, a chronology
and a guide to further reading, makes a major non-Western literary
tradition newly accessible to students and scholars of the West.
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