Nicholson A. Reynold

A Literary: History of the arabs / Reynold A. Nicholson - London: Cambridge University Press, 1966 - 506 p.

Contents

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER

I. SABA AND HIMYAR

II. THE HISTORY AND LEGENDS OF THE PAGAN ARABS

III. PRE-ISLAMIC POETRY, MANNERS, AND RELIGION

IV. THE PROPHET AND THE KORAN

V. THE ORTHODOX CALIPHATE DYNASTY. AND THE UMAYYAD

VI. THE CALIPHS OF BAGHDAD

VII. POETRY, LITERATURE, AND SCIENCE IN THE 'ABBASID PERIOD

VIII. ORTHODOXY, FREE-THOUGHT, AND MYSTICISM

IX. THE ARABS IN EUROPE

X. FROM THE MONGOL INVASION TO THE PRESENT DAY

APPENDIX

BIBLIOGRAPHY


English

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Literary--History--Arabs

892.709 / N52