00928nam a22001697a 450000500170000000800410001702000100005804000100006808200170007810000270009524500610012226000470018330000110023050504760024154600120071765000290072920260504161517.0260504b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a(hbk)  cUE-CL  a892.709bN52  aNicholson A. Reynold    aA Literary: History of the arabsc/ Reynold A. Nicholson  aLondon:bCambridge University Press,c1966  a506 p.  aContents

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

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BIBLIOGRAPHY  aEnglish  aLiterary--History--Arabs