Arabic literature
Arabic literature is literature written in Arabic, or by Arabs in other languages.
Genres and forms
Noted authors
Historical
- Antara Ibn Shaddad al-'Absi, pre-Islamic Arab hero and poet (fl. 580 CE).
- Abu Nuwas, poet (756-815)
- al-Mutanabbi, poet (915-965)
- al-Hariri (1054-1122)
- Muhammad al-Nawaji bin Hasan bin Ali bin Othman, Cairene mystic, Sufi and poet (1383?-1455)
Modern
- Tayeb Salih
- Abdul Rahman Munif
- Naguib Mahfouz, (1911- ) Nobel Prize for Literature (1988), famous for the Cairo Trilogy about life in the sprawling inner city.
- Ahlam Mosteghanemi, notable for being the first Algerian woman published in English
- Ra'ouf Mus'ad, not one of the most well-known Arab authors, but interesting.
References
- Roger Allen, The Arabic Novel: An Historical and Critical Introduction (1982) ISBN 0950788503.
- Alamgir Hashmi, The Worlds of Muslim Imagination (1986) ISBN 0005004071.
- Cambridge History of Arabic Literature, multiple authors and editors
- Arabic Literature to the End of the Umayyad Period (1983) ISBN 0521240158
- 'Abbasid Belles Lettres (1990) ISBN 0521240166
- Religion, Learning and Science in the 'Abbasid Period (1991) ISBN 0521327636
- The Literature of Al-Andalus (2000) ISBN 0521471591
- Modern Arabic Literature (1993) ISBN 0521331978
See also
- Kitab al-I'tibar The autobiography of Usamah ibn Munqidh, in the Adab genre
External links
- Biography of Abu Nuwas (http://www.androphile.org/preview/Library/Mythology/Arabian/AbuNuwas/AbuNuwasBio.html/)
- Biography and poetry of Muhammad al-Nawaji bin Hasan bin Ali bin Othman (http://www.androphile.org/preview/Library/Poetry/al-Nawaji_islam_%20gayhistory/al-Nawaji_islam_%20gayhistory.htm/)
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