Anthology of Arabic Literature Culture and Thought from Pre-Islamic Times to the Present: With Online Media (Yale Language Series)

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This bookthe first comprehensive reader of Arabic literature from pre-Islamic times to the presentis an essential work for advanced students of the Arabic language. Presenting seventy works by seventy authors it includes: pre-Islamic poetry and prose; selections from the Quran; the Prophet Muhammads last sermon; the powerful writing of Ali Ibn Abi Talib the fourth Islamic Caliph; writings from the Golden Age of the Arabs (750-1258 A.D.) in philosophy mysticism prose and poetry; works from the neoclassical modernist and metaphorical schools; literature of the Arabs in Andalus Spain; discussions of cultural literary critical and political movements of the present day; vocabulary lists a list of idioms and notes a set of questions about the text and two glossaries. This book not only introduces students to the entire sweep of Arabic intellectual political and cultural thought but also gives examples of how this thought is expressed offering important insight into the Arab mind.