Literary History Of The Arabs (Paperback, Revised)

This book offers a classic general introduction to Arabic literary history, aiming to cover, in Nicholson's words, "what the Arabs thought, and to indicate as far as possible the influences which moulded their thought". The pages of almost every Arabic book abound in allusions to their names, events, movements and ideas which puzzle the Western reader. This work answers that need now as much as when it was first published.